This is part of my reply to a friend who has Klipsch Heresies already but
expressed a curiosity about my speakers. I thought it too *neat* to waste
and have posted it here mainly, I suppose, to aggravate the Pencil Dicks
here who are too scared to step outside the safety zone of legacy Brit
'evergreens' and are full of yap and *advice* - yet too fekkin' embarrassed
to tell you what speakers they've got themselves....

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You of all people must know what it's like when you want other speakers!
Otherwise why would you have so many?!


OK, not as daft as you might think - I went through 20,000 SS amplifiers
without realising I was looking for valves, I did almost the same thing with
speakers. (Was doing in fact!) Now I've got triodes and horns (and vinyl)
and am very happy with the 'Holy Trinity'! What ****es me off is that all
the 'advice' I got, after I got into the 'hifi' hobby, tried to push me in
the opposite direction, so it took a lot more time and money to get where I
am!

The rapid progress through the horns was a 'speeded up' voyage of
discovery - with hindsight we'd all wait 'til the lift gets to the top floor
before we stepped off, wouldn't we? ;-)
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By contrast, I was 'talking' to Elrond a few weeks back who owns and
recommends Tannoy 609s. By a stroke of luck there wuz a pair on eBay ending
in only a few hours, so I grabbed them for a (midweek) song. They are
*excellent* - I could live with them quite happily, were it not for the
horns....!!

Then I googled for Klipsch Heresies (as you do) and found this (first
result):

"I believe they are up to the third addition at this time. These are small
by the original Klipsch standards, and of course is a sealed box/suspension
style speaker, hence this is where the name is derived. The early, original
Heresies came in two choices, 8 and 16 ohms. The sensativity is rated around
96 db/1m, and has a bit of a difficult impedence on the 8 ohm models(or so I
have heard). Most SET owners feel this is a nice speaker, as well do most
other smaller tube amp owners. The biggest complaint I have heard about this
and other Klipsch models is the bright, in your face presantation. YMMV as
they say!"


What is it with this 'in yer face' rubbish with anything that's a *lot* more
revealing than most multiway, crossovered IB/BR slurry pumps? Is it an
'indoctrination' thing? Do they have no 'volume controls'...??

Mystified, Tonbridge Wells