my Talon Khorus sounds bad

Dear Dave,

Please call us at Talon and we will be happy to troubleshoot and make suggestions. We want all of our customers to be satisfied with our speakers, regardless if they are new or used. We have many loyal and ecstatic customers that have immediately had great results. Others have taken some time to get excellent results, and others have simply given up. Great results can be achieved, just a little effort and considerations need to be made.

The recipe for success is to have low noise, transparent electronics and cables, with a properly set-up listening room. Not all electronics and cables are created equal, nor does price or brand name dictate the quality of performance. Experience in listening to different electronics and cables will offer the perfromance you are looking for. For example, if you are feeding your Porsche regular gas and are frustrated with its performance on the muddy road you are racing it on, would you blame the car? The speakers can only perform as well as the system and room are integrated with them.

As mentioned earlier, please contact us and we will be glad to troubleshoot this situation.

Happy Listening,

Michael Farnsworth
Talon Audio

There you go, a stand-up manufacturer. Let us know what happens, will you?

Thank you all for your kind help
i've heard good things about the people in TALON
still, i didnt expect to get a response from them here.
a stand up manufacturer indeed !
i will contact TALON and try to solve that problem.
needless to say, i love hi-fi audio but i dont consider
myself a guy with an audiophile ear.
i guess what i'm trying to say is that at high listening
volume the sound gets so bad even a 10 year old would notice. gets distorted to a point where u just cant recognize the music.
i have also noticed that the KRELL tends to heat to a point where u simply cant touch it when played for a lengthy period of time at high volume (an hour or so),
does that mean that the KRELL is running out of juice and
does it have anything to do with the distortion?
i will let you know what happens when i speak with TALON.
THANK YOU AGAIN.
David

I've heard many different Krell amps and was always impressed by the power and clarity but, these were 300 w/c or greater units. I do however own a pair of Khorus's. Mine were demo's and about a year old when I got them. There's no way mine are broken in but right out of the box they blew me away once I had them positioned correctly. These speakers are a blessing and a curse. They seem to be incredibly accurate and smooth though any weak components are going to be brought to light almost immediately. Something else to keep in mind is that mystery of why matching even expensive high end components for best effect is one of trial and error. I'd take the Talon reps advice and give him a call and the writer that suggested you try some better cd's and different kinds of music for comparison. I've noticed that some of my old rock cd's don't come close to my newer music in quality. After that I'd borrow a different amp, cd player, cables and experiment a little bit.

With my 350 w/c Mac amp and crappy little 15 year old Magnavox (soon to be a Cary 306) cd player the music is incredible so I doubt the trouble lies with your Rega. On the other hand I'm running Acoustic Zen cables to my Khorus's. I guess I'm trying to say that with the gear I've got right now I'd sooner shoot my dog than dump my speakers and, I love my dog. Don't give up just yet but, if you do list them on Audiogone then drop me a line as everyone who has heard mine would love to get a great deal on yours!

I would look into a better amplifier and better speaker cables. One thing about great speakers is that they do demand high quality components. You can really hear the grain in a mid-grade component.

I've heard the krell integrated, and it is a little grainy. I've hooked my crummy old denon receiver up to my audio physic avant's & you can REALLY heard the mid-fi electronics. It sounds far worse with high resolution speakers.

One of my friends has Talon Khoruses. He uses a Krell 600, Krell kps 25 (?) & quattro-fil w/spm speaker cables. I haven't heard his system yet, but he's been around the hobby a while & knows his stuff.

As mentioned above, you might also be hearing the low quality of some rock recordings. I pulled out some of my old rock recording a while back (late 80's cd's) & I couldn't believe how bad they sounded on my system.

Good luck, and KUDOS to Talon for their quick response.