Klipsch Cornwall 4 Speakers, $6600 per pair
(38h, 25 3/8w, 15 1/2d, 100 lbs, 102dB SPL)
Black, Walnut & Cherry Real Wood Finishes
Cornwall IV
Most of our customers are on a short leash from the wife. She’ll accept speakers in the living room so long as they don’t take over the room. Depending on your negotiating skills, you might get sleek towers, maybe some nice satellites and sub, or maybe just small shelf speakers. This blurb isn’t for you.
What I’m writing about here is attaining unabashed power and dynamics. Size be damned! Move the other stuff outta the way. You’re serious about music. Let’s BRING IT!
K’s newest Cornwall (Cornwall 4) is a good sized cabinet. So what? Its purpose is to bring music to your listening room in a life sized scale. Now, while it is sizable, it is NOT difficult to place. It’s happy near the back wall. It can be placed perpendicular to your seating area. It’s not particularly taller or deeper than a million other floor standers. It is WIDER which is necessary to deliver the full scale sound that it does.
You consider Cornwall because you love music BIG and BOLD, as it is live. While you can play background music to keep you company, Cornwall is designed for full scale presentation. To achieve this ginormous wave of music, you need the size.
Cornwall starts with a good sized cabinet of heavy duty construction. It is finished in gorgeous,
real wood, matched pairs. Cornwall has a 15” woofer. Look out. This big boy can bring you the dynamics of a real drum kit or band. Cornwall can convince you the instruments are in your room! The woofer has a massive voice coil and magnet structure. It uses a new accordion style driver for top level responsiveness and articulation.
Cornwall uses two additional horn drive elements in a tractrix design. The shape of the horn, along with the texture, is vital to the dispersion characteristics K achieves. A standard flared design will not produce the same results.
Cornwall uses a new 2” Polyimide midrange driver. Cornwall uses a 1” Titanium tweeter. K uses horn elements to provide massive dynamic range and speed. At 102dB SPL, Cornwall can be driven by literally any amp. Of course Cornwall will sound better with higher quality electronics. But it will sound good with absolutely anything out there.
This gives you a huge head start vs most audiophile speakers- where you MUST have close to state of the art electronics in order to wake them up.
Cornwall certainly doesn’t require tube gear to sound good. But if you’re a tube lover and have intrinsically quiet gear, like the McIntosh lineup, it’s a marriage made in heaven. I’ve seen more audiophiles than I can count, connect expensive tube gear to very hungry speakers. The result is smooth sound but extremely limited dynamics and deep bass. Some systems I’ve heard are equally sleepy and expensive. Cornwalls are designed to be full figured in sound and structure, with no apologies in the process.
Believe me, I know the knock audiophiles have on horn speakers. But I promise if you listen to Cornwalls in the flesh, instead of reading crapola on line, you’ll be amazed at their strengths.
I encourage you to stop by to hear them for yourself, with amps from 15-80-100-300 watts per channel. We can compare solid state vs tubes. I can promise you’ll have great fun testing them out. Yet I have to warn you, Cornwall might just win you over and require you to convince your wife to rearrange the furniture!