Tonedeaf
07-01-2006, 05:28 PM
Picked them up over Father's Day weekend. Circa 1979, raw birch. I had to borrow my sisters van to get them home. My brother came over to help me get them in my apartment. First impression was these things are big and look very impressive. My brother says "hook 'em up, let's see what they do". Understand my brother is a Bose user and I could not talk him out of it, so he is already trying to rub me with a poor attempt at humor. I figured I'd show him. I really didn't want to move around a bunch of gear because I had to get my sister's van back and pick up my daughter, so I quickly hooked them up to a Marantz 1070 with the Toshiba 3960 giving no regard to placement. I had to make room for them as it is.
The sound was well... :puke:
My brother looks at me and can see by my expression I was having serious buyers remorse and replied, "well, at least they work". Yea, they were that bad. If I knocked on the bass bin, that was the extent of my bass response. The sound of a hollow box.
Over the rest of the weekend I was surfing AK and the Klipsch forums and ran into a post that mentioned nearfield listening positions, while someone had a tagline, (NOS Valves?) that read, "LaScalas, all the bass you need to hear". So I began working on placement. Things got better. But they really opened up when I swapped out the 1070 for my Dared tube integrated.
Much better but it seemed as if something was still missing. The bass response of these things only hits 53hrz, but I felt that with the size of the bass horns, it should at least give the impression of hitting lower frequencies. Well I played a little more and swapped out the Dared for my Marantz 2235 pre-outs running a Marantz 8B tube amp.
Now we're talking! These things are simply amazing! I cannot believe they are rated at 53Hrz. My daughter is back for the summer and I put on some Mya and Rhianna to see how low they will go and all I can say is WOW! The bass is so detailed and defined. They are no sub woofer, but when the note hits at just the right time the La Scalas will go boom. So thanks to AK again for such a great site and thanks to the Klipsch guys on their forum, I am a happy listener again! :music: :thmbsp:
The sound was well... :puke:
My brother looks at me and can see by my expression I was having serious buyers remorse and replied, "well, at least they work". Yea, they were that bad. If I knocked on the bass bin, that was the extent of my bass response. The sound of a hollow box.
Over the rest of the weekend I was surfing AK and the Klipsch forums and ran into a post that mentioned nearfield listening positions, while someone had a tagline, (NOS Valves?) that read, "LaScalas, all the bass you need to hear". So I began working on placement. Things got better. But they really opened up when I swapped out the 1070 for my Dared tube integrated.
Much better but it seemed as if something was still missing. The bass response of these things only hits 53hrz, but I felt that with the size of the bass horns, it should at least give the impression of hitting lower frequencies. Well I played a little more and swapped out the Dared for my Marantz 2235 pre-outs running a Marantz 8B tube amp.
Now we're talking! These things are simply amazing! I cannot believe they are rated at 53Hrz. My daughter is back for the summer and I put on some Mya and Rhianna to see how low they will go and all I can say is WOW! The bass is so detailed and defined. They are no sub woofer, but when the note hits at just the right time the La Scalas will go boom. So thanks to AK again for such a great site and thanks to the Klipsch guys on their forum, I am a happy listener again! :music: :thmbsp: