klipsch: Klipschhorn La Scala

Klipschorn and La Scala were two different models built by Paul Klipsch. The main difference, apart their dimensions and their price, was that the Klipschorn used the walls of the room as integral part of the bass horn unit, while in the La Scala, which was the unfinished version of the Belle Klipsch, the bass horn was self contained.

Two Klipschorn speaker units required a custom designed house, to host them: two corners and three walls of solid concrete, free from obstacles. The basses were radiated toward the walls and here reflected to the room center.

The Belle Klipsch, and the unfinished La Scala, had wooden walls on the sides, so to complete the folded horn driver in the cabinet itself and the basses are radiated to the front.

In the late sixties, both the Klipschorn and the Belle Klipsch, or La Scala, had 16 ohm impedance, to reduce the influence of long wires.

At the time Klipsch also produced two more models: Cornwall, which was a 50W bass reflex, and Heresy, the name was self explicatory, a small 25W infinite baffle.

Here is a picture of the La Scala

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