I spend an entire day with him (9-7, August 1985) in his Lab and Office in Hope, then at his private club for lunch, then his home for a listen and a shot of Glenlivit Schotch, then he chauffered us in his Mercedes to the Pioneer Kitchen (the lady opened her Restaurant, just for 4 of us, PWK, me, and our wives), then back to our hotel. Treated us like his long lost grandkids, as he was the same age as my Grandmother, born the same year. My Avatar is PWK and I in front of his original building in Hope, converted to a Museum across from the Plant. A genius and a true gentleman. Everything he wrote in the Dope From Hope, he actually did!
He used one himself, as well as False Corners, in his home (I was there). I built a hybrid of the 2 schematics, with a potentiometer on only the resultant mono center channel. I had 2 Khorns with a LaScala in the center for 30 years until I graduated to the Pro Klipsch and HT in the new Millenium.
I was 13 years old when I first saw Khorns, riding my bike to my Detroit Newspaper Route by a Klipsch Dealer (the backs were visible in the store window). It took me 10 years before I could afford them. I had the 2PH3 setup for 30 years. Got "Klipsch Papers" autographed by PWK and joined the Audio Engineering Society via his urgings. Spent a full day with him at the Hope Factory and at his House. Everything he wrote about he did. He played some of his Symphony recordings on tape at his home for me while we had a shot or two of Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch. Treated me like his long lost grandson, as he was born the same year as my paternal grandmother. My dad was named Paul too, and I named my only son after him. PWK was the real deal!
Your assessment is only half true. The of the PWK Heritage, LaScala and Heresy's drivers (except for the tweeters) are within 1/4 wave at their crossover points, woofer to midrange, so they pass the "reasonable" Phase Coherence test. Many of the models from Gary Gillum, Jim Hunter, in the 80's, and Roy Delgado (especially the Jubilees in the new millenium) and the KPT series are phase coherent. The Jubes have always had Acrive Crossovers with Time Delays. So the points you made are relative and not absolute to a company that has been making loudspeakers since before your were born or still in diapers!
So basically you were wrong about the LaScalas and Heresy's time alignment issues (OK, maybe right about the less audible tweeter). LaScalas and Heresys were over 60% of sales when they were created (excluding the Pro Stuff). Your opinions, masquerading as facts, about Klipsh Products, and Line Arrays, are either incomplete, with zero data, and/or totally wrong. Keep up the good work, I'm sure there are many here who love to be misguided in too general terms of opinions. For one, I'm impressed with your tenacity and consistency of opinion, however wrong it may be 2/3 of the time.
Anyone else ever sometimes miss the somewhat off-axis musings of @ClaudeJ1…?
Nope.
