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SMH they/them  2yr ago (hiconsumption.com) Edited 2yr ago 157 thread views #75097

[not really drama, but I'm sure some people on some obscure place have some things to say about this] Klipsch Unveils New Flagship Loudspeakers That Are Bigger Than Most Humans:marseymanlet:

https://hiconsumption.com/klipsch-jubilee-floorstanding-speaker

For those who don't know, the Klipsch Klipschorn speaker has been a flagship, legendary, staple audiophile speaker for 7 decades.

Now Klipsch has introduced a new one, even bigger and better version called the Jubilee. Better start saving your marseybux.

https://robbreport.com/gear/audio/klipsch-jubilee-loudspeaker-set-1234688365/

I can't wait to hear some taytay on a set of these!

https://www.klipsch.com/products/75th-anniversary-jubilee-floorstanding-speaker

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My problem with Klipsch is that I was made aware of the brand back in the late 90s or early 2000s when Best Buy was promoting their computer speaker and since then I think of them as a box store computer speaker company.

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Klipsch was the brand that people who were too cool for Bose used to recommend when I was a kid.

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My 911 has Bose speakers but that was the “premium” option at the time. Now I feel like internet audiophiles are going to make fun of me when I open the door and they see the logos on the speaker grills.

I actually found out there was a more premium option you could order through the Sonderwunsch (special wishes) program that basically filled the lower half of the door with two or three six or eight inch drivers made by Nokia of all companies. It was something like $6000.

My VW has a Fender branded system, which is stupid because you can’t play guitar while driving, but it sounds the best out of all of them.

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Bose is still really good, hobbyists just have a tendency to turn their nose up at stuff once it gets too mainstream.

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Definitely. Also before AirPod Pros/Max came out you’d be hard pressed to find a better set of noise cancelling headphones.

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That's a shame, knowing that Paul Klipsch was one of, if not the original founder of "audiophile" grade.

And the brand has mostly upheld the cause.

Paul Wilbur Klipsch (March 9, 1904 – May 5, 2002) was an American engineer and high fidelity audio pioneer, known for developing a high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. Unsatisfied with the sound quality of phonographs and early speaker systems, Klipsch used scientific principles to develop a corner horn speaker that sounded more lifelike than its predecessors.

Klipsch Audio Technologies

The Klipschorn, which today is still manufactured and sold worldwide, proved popular. The resulting acoustics career of Klipsch spanned from 1946, when he founded one of the first U.S. loudspeaker companies, to 2000 when the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society published one of his papers.[1] He died on May 5, 2002 at the age of 98.

Fred Klipsch, former Klipsch owner and chairman and cousin to founder Paul Wilbur Klipsch, said, “Paul was a verifiable genius who could have chosen any number of vocations, but the world sounds a lot better because he chose audio.”[2]

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I know the history, I was just pointing out how branding deals like that or competing with box store brands can frick up a reputation.

It’s similar to how they rebranded Hitachi power cowtools in the US as “Metabo HPT”. Nobody here knows that Metabo is a highly regarded German brand that makes some of, if not the best angle grinders.

So now when you recommend a Metabo angle grinder to a yank they think of that weird, always discounted brand at Lowe’s instead of the Rolex of grinding cowtools.

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I had always thought of Metabo as industrial cowtools and Hitachi as more fine woodworking, it seems that they are still feeling out the merged branding

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Chad move Klipsch, Chad af

:#marseyclapping:

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High-end music production and listening makes me hate being a middle class cute twink. I just want money to do cool shit.

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I suppose if you can’t afford Beolab 90s these are an almost acceptable compromise

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Yeah, price point is an issue too. I was thinking about replacing my blown out Klipschorns with the CAT MBX, but they remind me too much of @schizocel

https://www.audioaffair.co.uk/blog/americas-formula-one-loudspeakers-blew-minds/

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I've read it and to put it simply: I'm disgusted by some of the text. And especially when it was revealed that the alt-right "drama" website was involved in the research, my suspicions came true. The text is nothing but smelling coming from some pretentious intellectual dark web teenager fan-fiction writer. Unfortunately.

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