Klipsch Klipschorn AK6 75th Anniversary w/ Upscale Audio's Kevin Deal and Kat Ourlian
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Not just for old dudes who've lived the history of Klipsch. The K-Horns are such a captivating speaker, that Kat wanted to be a part of this video to explain just how much she was blown away by the sound. In fact, one of our youngest employees just bought a pair for himself.
Tube amps are an obvious great match with the Klipschorn AK6, but watch the video to learn about an unexpected magic pairing. Plus, find out just what's special about this 75th anniversary edition. - Zábava
I've owned a pair of Klipschorns for over 40 years. Nothing you can say will prepare someone for the experience they provide.
Just bought a pair of '93 Khorns yesterday . Love ❤️ em.
Own the 70th Anniversaries and they are amazing. Went from floorstanding B&W's to the big corner horns, best decision I have ever made. Love them everyday. Not a huge fan of the grille and logo on the bass bin on these 75's but whoever buys these will be rewarded with decades of music or home theater enjoyment.
I always love your reviews Kevin and Kat. I’ve been a fan of the K horn since the salesman at my favorite hifi store in Charlottesville Virginia sat me down in front of a pair and played The Dark Side of the Moon for me in 1978. Good times!
thank you both, you're both incredable and I love your vids on your channel I try and watch all of them.
LOL!! When I was 21yrs old in 1973, I would go down to the Stereo Store in Kenmore N.Y. with 4-5 albums and ask them if I could play them in there PREMIUM ROOM where the K HORNS were...They TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY!!...I was in there a long azz time and did it several times...The guys were sooo cool...I think at that time they were $1000 each...wish I bought them now!..I had to settle for double stacked ADVENT speakers....haaaaaa!!! Great times man!!
Was that Stereo Advantage? They were the best.
Great video Kevin and Kat. I can feel the emotion of total respect for this wonderful loudspeaker. I'm sure it is a joy to experience the big beautiful box disappear and as you get raptured by the music filling the room! ❤ 👍
I bought a Primaluna 100 integrated from Upscale to power my 1987 Belle Klipsch speakers and they sound awesome! The amp has plenty of power for the speakers. I then added a Rega P3 turntable and a Tube Box S2 from Upscale.....pure heaven!
Great Presentation! Thanks.
Yes my older Bowers&Wilkins speakers I have to turn them up to get the sound on certain types of music, but they sound great. I love your channel you all do a great job, I've learned alot just watching and listening Thank you and God Bless You All😇😇
Great review! I very much enjoy my audio system with PL EVO 300 (preamp + amp) + Klipsch Heresy. I’ve been waiting to pull the trigger on the Klipschorn AK6, this gets me 1 step closer 😊
“Our system like it’s yours” 😂 A couple of watts will make those puppies sing. Cool vid. Thanks 🔊🎶😊
I'm lucky enough to own a pair of Volti Vittora & Elf sub. Fell in love with them at soon as I heard them. Horns rock 🤘
may I ask: how do they compare to the K-Horns? I know that they're probably more like La Scala's -- or Belle Klipsch -- but can you tell us how they compare if you know?
24 x 30 listening room sold separately.
I’ve owned Klipsch k-horns for 30 plus years with a pair of Belle’s that I run on B channel ! Together they are unbelievable ! My old Marantz 2325 will rock them ! My Listening room can get really loud ! I’m a Klipsch fan for life !
Love them Klipsch.. Original owner of Cornwall i circa 1984, here.... driven by a 10wpc Class A SET amp ! PS. Love Kat's jeans..I wonder how those jeans would look on Kevin ! YIKES !!!
Awesome guys.
Drooling for a pair of these!
Bob from The Ice House and I go back 45yrs past, haven't heard from him for 30yrs, he's an entrepreneur for ever. Love your vids, Kevin.
Thank you both for your enthusiasm and TRUE LOVE of Klipsch. I had a pair of unaltered 1968's, they were fitted with WHITE grills on dark walnut which was very unusual, they also had NO COLLAR. Powered by ALL Dynaco factory assembled gear from 1965. That lasted 14 lovely years in my care. Then got into Martin Logan.
I JUST added the Forte' 4's to the music room from my local dealer here in New England, and the MAGIC of the Klipschorns has returned (O: (I learned that Roy voiced the Forte' to sound as close to the K'Horn as possible)
BTW, they have the full line of Heritage family models INLCUDING a 75th anniversary Jubilee pair !! I will make that appointment to come and listen to them. (O:
I have a pair of Clips subwoofers I'll have to listen to these speakers you have really peaked my interest about horn soeakers. And how natural they sound awesome video
Yep. They energize the room, neighborhood, etc.
My friend and I heard Klipschorns at RMAF in 2019. They definitely left an impression on us.. We had fun too. We walked in and there were a bunch of proper audiophiles listening to classical and jazz. I twisted the Klipsch guy's arm into letting me plug my phone into his DAC. Played some Rammstein. All the audiophiles got up and left, but a bunch of other guys came in to rock with us.
I'm a Proper Audiophile and was in the industry for 35 years. I've seen all the AC/DC frontmen live. My main music is 60's/70's Hard Rock plus Chicago Jazz and Southern Blues. I've seen (to name a few) Manfred Mann, Jethro Tull Both at the Rainbow and outside in 30 degrees Celsius (drinking Tequila and smoking Doobie's) Santana, Fleetwood Mac and Little River Band all at the same gig in Sydney Australia. "Proper" Audiophiles can be anybody that's into the Gear as well as the Music.
@@carmenandthedevil2804 I'm only teasing. I'm an audiophile too. I listen to a wide variety of music, but I'm a metal head first :)
@@carmenandthedevil2804 I know what you mean but there's that smooth jazz elevator speaker testing music that sounds so silky smooth, but is not the type of music I typically jam to.
I’m still listening to my k-horns from the late 70’s, plus Klipsch Belle’s just to I make sure it gets loud enough and can shake the house . The wall of sound being pushed by 70’s Marantz 2325. Still rocking after all these years an at my age , this Will be the heart of my 🎼 music for whatever time G D decides to let me celebrate life !
The K horns changed the way I thought a speaker could sound 41 years ago when i first heard them. I was on a quest to find a speaker that really sounded like live music . Every weekend for almost a year my buddy and I toured the hi fi shops and listened to everything we could . I finally settled on the KEF 105.2 BUT had one more shop to go , they were the only Klipsch dealer in the city . That's where I forgot about all what I had listened to in my quest for sound , the Klipschorns changed everything I thought a speaker could sound like. I ordered a pair the next day, that was 41 years ago . Still have them and to me their still unbeatable.
Looks like a Beer Cooler....Love you Guy's and what a speaker! Will be calling you guys to inquire on PATHOS INPOL2 MKII and PATHOS InPoL Legacy. Keep the reviews going!!!!
These are nice! I rembember buying a pair of JBL 4311wx in Eugene and they had some giant JBL speakers he auditioned for me. The guy from the shop next door came running over and said things were falling of off his shelves :)
Hello, thanks for the video here, to you that may want to here my story, I bought a pair of Klipsch Horns in 1989, for $3000 bucks new, i wanted the big ones, I power them with Manley 20 watt Mono Blocks, they reproduce a great sound from rock to Symphony, I prefer Symphony, you think that you are at the concert, one day i was playing Lynyrd Skynyrd, i turned it up a lot, on Freebird, and the sound pressure from the Bass, cracked my front room window, LOL, 20 watt amp, this blew my mind, Cousin Figel
OK, for anyone else who is wondering about the idea of a fully enclosed horn I did some research.
It turns out it is not entirely sealed. It still has horn mouths on each side it just doesn't rely on the wall to enclose the _internal_ horn mouth.
Think of a bass bin with only three sides to the horn mouth. The new design includes four sides. It still requires corner placement to get full bass performance but it doesn't have to be right up against both walls. You can angle them some or have them slightly out from the wall and they will work fine.
Technically you can even set them out from the corners and place them like regular speakers and they will work but with reduced bass performance due to now having a truncated horn more like a LaScala.
So it is still designed as a corner horn but more forgiving than the original open sided design.
I had '76 KHorns. Got upgraded type A crossovers and physically time aligned the tweeter on top of the cabinet. I sold them for CF-4v.1 but i miss the Khorns so much!
Would you buy the Khorns today (if you were in the market)?
@@asplmn for that much money? No. That's no knock on them I fail to see myself ever paying that much for speakers of any brand. Ive played in the used market with rich peoples old throw aways for years and im happy here so im probably the last person to ask that question.
Still have my 1978 LSBR's. Although not as awesome as their big brothers, they still provide a wonderful sonic experience.
You both are too cool to be true 😄✌❤
They are still very cool
I hope you dont treat my system like you treat your jeans.
Like my Altec Model 18, the Khorns (owned two pairs), have a presence at even very low listening levels with the right low-powered tube amp.
We're going to treat our system like it's yours... Hmmmm... I'm not sure what to make of that. In any case, comedy at its best! 👍
Always amazing talk of these speaker. The EV tweeter would blow out from heat with little trouble. And the engineers had to try to go back to the original design as the T35 style because they found that the factory had forgotten how to make them meet spec. So, the talk of the fantastic sound was a total myth until at least the tweeter drive was designed new from scratch.
I own the Klipch RF7 originals and wow they sound amazing 👏
Wait. Wait. Wait.
Did "Kat" just turn a k-horn into a scratching post??
Meow!
@Kat O yet another reason why Kat o is quickly becoming my new hero: turning khorns into scratching posts.
It's always amazing how many people who have never heard anything other than their friends poorly setup Klipsch RP 8000's comment as if they know anything about the Heritage line sound. Completely different animals. Guys who wouldn't know horn coloration if it hit them in the face comment about it as if they haven't heard anything with a horn in the last thirty years, if at all. Often I have found that they just read comments and assumed. Now, the new K-Horn isn't as fussy about placement as it's predecessor's but it's still not the set it and forget champ either. Being near a corner still helps in most cases. Though I have heard it exhibit too much bass in a corner setup and need to be pulled farther out in the room. If you have the space and the budget don't overlook the higher end Klipsch Heritage line products. You may ultimately prefer a different type of sound but you also may save yourself thousands and wonder why anyone would use any other speaker. Seriously, if you're considering spending 16K on a pair of speakers you should really spend some time listening to a lot of options. Yeah, spend some money to travel if you have to in order to get demo's. It'll save you big time in the end.
Not much left of Kat,s trousers !
The Yamaha A-S 501 Integrated Amplifier is absolutely quiet. Residual noise, a specification not ordinarily given is in microvolts. I use it to drive my pair of Altec Model 19 speaker systems.
OMG! My Prima Luna Evo300 integrated Amp will be perfect for these! I do love my Klipsch P -37F Palladium speakers 🙂 Love ya videos Kevin and Kat. Keep em comin'.
Kats taking over ! Watch out Kevin ! 😅
There needs to be more interaction with this channel. I see people constantly asking questions with no feedback from Upscaleaudio
Kat is VERY good about feedback.
I have a pair of mid 80s Klipshorns with upgraded Crites crossovers. Sounds great with a McIntosh 7200 and the VPI turntable from Upscale. Sounds better with a pair of vintage MC30s.
Kevin, am I imagining it, or did they remove the decorative ledge from the top section? It seems there used to be more separation between upper and lower section on the decorative style Khorn of yesteryear.
I think he needs to pay her more money. Those pants 👖 have some rips. Did she pay for that? Cool video
They say buy your speakers first. And they say Khorns are your final speaker. Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey.
Finally we’re talking real horns baby!
Hmmm. But you can also certainly spend your money first on a great amp, pre, dac and then get decent speakers that scale well. KLH 5’s, and Maggie LRS come to mind.
Have you played the ak6 Klipschorns with the Primaluna evo-300 hybrid Floyd Int amp
How do these compare to Wilson Sabrinas or other speakers at the $15-20K price point?
Man... These have been my dream speakers since I got into hifi a handful of years ago...
Can these work in an apartment? 😂😭
Only if you expect to be evicted soon
I love Klipsch, but you're right, you have to have the right amplification for it. When you get it right, though, magic happens! One day I would love to have a space that I could fit these in!!!
Would a Marantz SR-8015 run those speakers?
Kat Power!
It was there. Cause it’s a really heavy amp! 🤦♀️😆😂😂😂😂
I have no idea what your talking about kat but l like it when I’m ready to buy I’m coming to you
@Kat O 😃
Nice speakers, but I would take the tannoy speakers behind. love tannoy speakers, had a few pairs over the years,
I hope to own a pair of Tannoy's someday.🇺🇦🇺🇸🤜
All made in China now 😞
@@The.Original.Mr.X Not all, just the lower lines.
Tannoy's are sweet but these run circles around them. I've had both.
Man I’d really like to hear these in. Is it a two piece cabinet? Kinda looks like it is.
I would love to know how those Tannoy kingdom sound next to Kat.
Good thing Kat didn't use the saying "We're not happy till you're NOT happy. 😊
No need to spend $1000's on a tube amp - check out the Fisher 500C receiver with about 35W per channel. An amazing sounding unit the has withstood the test of time.
@2:05 KHorns in a small room LOL 🫣
These are a piece of the HiFi audio history
Khorns are God's Way of Telling You You Are Making Too Much Money!🤩
I am not sure I have ever seen a tube amp that didn't have pi filters in the B+.
Scavenger shots for anytime you hear Kevin say Focal in a video not featuring Focal! 😆🥰🥳
Klipschorns were the first extreme hi-end loudspeaker. Of course Harry Truman was president at the time and a 15 watt power amp was considered to be a high-powered amp then. A horn is a flared pipe and is inherently resonant. They sound great on brass instruments, which are horns, and electronic instruments such as electric guitars and synthesizers. But they have an inherent colorization for voices and other acoustic instruments.
I too was impressed with K-horns when I first heard them back in 1970s. My first crack at a hi-end system was a set I built with the same mid-range horn and tweeters that Klipsch used, with a back-loaded bass horn using the 15" JBL D140 bass driver. I loved them until I heard a pair of home-built loudspeakers a friend had done with Phillips dome drivers at a small fraction of the cost I paid for my horns. It was embarrassing they sounded so much better.
If you're a big rocker, into hip-hop or pop, you'll love K-horns. They're massive and will terrify the neighbors. But if you love to listen to voices and acoustic instruments, there are more modern choices you'll enjoy more.
Own a pair i think the price today is out of reach of most people!!!!!!!!!!¡!
what about the new flagships?
@Kat O thank-you!!
I own a '94 pair and unfortunately houses built since about the 80's rarely have two clean corners. I'd hate to part with them but they just don't make large family rooms like they used to.
Knew a guy had a pair in his living room
Bello/linda.🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🏆
Kevin you need to pay Kat more money so she can get some new jeans
What happened to her pants?
But how what about a comparison to the Forte IV, isn't that really the best all round value?
I have DSP'ed time aligned mine ,
Klipschorns are the cheapest loudspeakers to own when you calculate 50 years of ownership.
Klipschorn take LESS SPACE than floor standers when placed in a room the way they where designed to (in the corner).
Do not toe in, why would you want a delayed back wall reflection? its not a ported bass reflex so do not toe in.
The grill should be black..
Us little people cant afford the "cheap" budget $20,000 system they are pushing. Whats wrong with us?
Kevin, profanity is unnecessary. Kat, you may get kneemonia! Great video
A ver si le suben el sueldo a la chica, ¡no tiene ni para pantalones!
Wow, that's one of the ugliest medieval 70s square box I have ever seen. Sorry folks, not my cup of tea. That will match the equal medieval looking McIntosh boxes.👎