Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER?

See, I never considered the Heresy speakers to be floorstanders or "full range" but more fat and heavy "bookshelf" speakers. With some boundary gain in a small room, they can dig a bit deeper but add a nice, fast, and tight sealed sub to the mix and they can wow many folks.

Bill

@audiokinesis Let's remember also that the Heresy is a sealed design and has no ports to help out with bass extension. 

I'm not sure if mr. horn is just trolling, but many people prefer monitors much smaller than the Heresy with the same or less bass extension and mate them with a subwoofer(s).  Red herring indeed.  There are many ways to skin a cat. 

If you have the space for a set of Cornwalls or Klipschorns, great.  If you prefer their sound, great.

For those that would like something smaller or maybe need to put it in a corner or are going to sit close to the speakers, the Heresy is a nice option.  I have mine in a small office mated to a tube integrated and they sound fantastic.  I have room for a small sub next to them, and have all the bass I want and/or need. 

I set them up in my main system for a few days and while they sounded good there, they don't have the grunt to fill up that much larger room like my KLF-30's or Legacy Audio Focus 20/20's do, but that's not why I bought the Heresy.  

I replaced every driver and the crossovers in my Heresy speakers, not because they sounded bad or even that I thought I had to, mostly just because my Heresy I are about 30 years old and it seemed like a good idea and was relatively inexpensive to do.  I actually thought they sounded worse (more detailed) after I did it, but they have settled down and sound great with tube amplification.

Cornwalls would be ridiculous in my office space.

With a name like 'Rossi', he is of Italian extraction. Maybe. There is a joke about the shape of italy. For fear of upsetting my mother, I will refrain from saying it.......

Its a damn shame that PWK is not with us today with all the technology etc that would be at his disposal, I am sure he would be able to make a killer horn to rival anything out there. I am surprised he never made the mid range horn with a larger diameter (11/16) to let the mid range breath more openly. My H1's have a 3" speaker cone and a much shorter horn in length but are 14" across. The mid range frequenicies are very open and excellent.  

This is what I love about this site, you can openly criticize a company and not be banned .. cough cough, SH forums..