Meet Klipsch's Roy Delgado, The Power of Horns (Part 1)
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- Roy Delgado came to Klipsch in 1986, and developed long friendship and working relationship with founder Paul W Klipsch.
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I have been working with Roy for 22 years...It is not "just a job". You are getting Roy in this interview...not some act...just Roy. Hope you're doing well Steve.
The man that was mentored by THE MAN, awesome stuff. Thanks Steve.
This was great. Not only because it is great to listen from a true engineer, but also because it’s a story of a latino becoming a successful engineer and shows what is amazing about America. This is the true America.
Thanks Miguel!
We're all human beings.
Different individuals have differing capabilities.
What often makes the biggest difference, is in how we treat each other.
@@HareDeLune and individually work to be the best that we can be and make a contribution to the world.
Wow, truly appreciate the insight from your perspective... it certainly broadens mine.
Yeah bro!:-) supercool man!
I had the pleasure of spending time with Roy he's from my area , great man looking forward to sitting and speaking with him again.
Keepers of the Sound.
It's fun having a genius who is down to earth describe "the process". Fudge factor etc. Great stuff.
Mr. Delgado seems so down to earth. Nice interview.
One of the nicest, coolest guys I know
I've met him before and he really is. He has zero douchebag vibes going on at all. Just an average guy who loves fishing
PWK's protege; he keeps the Legend in Sound alive, the nicest guy you would ever meet.
Every set of speakers I now own are Klipsch. I started out with a set of La Scalas and graduated to my Klipschorns. They are 1978 models and will be with me from now on. Nothing really can prepare you for how they sound. Paul Klipsch was an American genius.
I appreciate the idea that both of you realize that hearing a musician live, in a small, closed environment (not a 'concert'); whether it be yourself or another person/group, makes a substantial contribution to how you listen to a system. Most people I know have no idea of what it's like to be at a live practice or recording session, and therefore have no idea of what the 'live' sound actually is. People really don't understand until they actually have that personal experience in a small, controlled environment.
Perfectly stated!
Still love my ‘84 La Scala’s, ‘95 Chorus II’s and ‘86 Forte’s!
Amazing History on his Designs of KLIPSCH speakers. I Can said San Sui was my first experience in Home Audio , my Dad have a SANSUI 9090.I have the change to buy a SANSUI 9090 for $150 in great conditions, I going to restore it in the future . They really sound amazing and now they are really pricey. My Home theater is Basically All KLIPSCH ( RF7-III) and for Subwoofer SVS! Thank you for this great video!
Steve, thanks for these wonderful interviews!
Great interview, Steve! Many thanks to you and Roy. Also, Steve, very good editing. This applies to both segments with Roy Delgado. The added info or images came in at just the right times, and stayed up long enough to be able to see them easily. Well done!
What a fabulous interview! The two of you really drew me into the conversation. Audio history in the making. Can't wait for part two
Two years ago, I had saved 10k for a new pair of speakers. I ended up with a pair of Forte 3s and I have never regretted "cheaping out" - never had so much fun listening to music. Hats off Mr. Delgado!
Wow! Great interview! Its humanity strengthens my pride in America's dream of democratic inclusivity. Our energy and genius lies in our diversity. We make fine music together!
This video has got me so exhilarated and excited that I can't wait to see part 2 without commenting. This hits squarely in the core of my interest in speaker design and the perception of sound. I met Paul Klipsch back in the 70s a few times at AES shows in NYC. Always been a fan of well designed horns since. Now on to part 2.
This was an incredible interview with an incredibly down to watch guy. Mr Delgado my hats off to you sir.
Whether you like Klipsch or not, you cannot deny the impact PWK and Klipsch has had on the Audio in America.
Terrific content and dialog from Roy. I enjoyed his in depth knowledge and the ability to explain it in detail concerning speaker (common sense) science.
PWK was very fortunate to have found a protege like Roy Delgado to take over the design aspects of Paul’s company. In fact, everyone who likes, or more importantly loves music, that Roy is making speakers that have emotional connectivity, which for me is critical for zoning out to tunes. I’ve heard the original Klipschorns but I’m willing to bet that Roy’s new Jubilees, he so graciously attributes to his mentor Paul, will sound flat out awesome. I’m a corner horn fan because of their geometry that endows them with substantial benefits over other speaker configurations. Congratulations to Roy, the entire Klipsch team and to the late great Paul W. Klipsch for providing mankind with such an engaging way to connect with our music, thank you.
The art of speaker design.They are all pure geniuses. And you have had all of them on your show. Fascinating. Thank you.
Brilliant interview, two really decent blokes, with lots of knowledge having a chat👍
I love that Paul put his trust In him. A sort of new generation Latino that was dedicated and understood the life in music! Usually ownership get past down in family or is bought out by other companies. Paul was a smart man to choose his employees wisely
What a great interview.
Entertaining, interesting & informative for me.
Roy is one cool guy.
Well done Steve.
Great interview Steve, and Roy seems like a great guy! The Jubilee finally becoming a consumer product!!! That is major news for any Klipsch fan. Looking forward to Part 2.
What a great video! Thanks for doing this!
I love my Chorus, Quartet and Academy set ups over the years. I had a $30k setup in the early 90's with Definitive Technologies, Rotel, and more. Then a divorce. Scored a cheap consignment setup with Quartet / Academy / PSB 300's and Yamaha RX-V 1080 to power it. People were amazed.
Very good interview. I often forget about all those calculations behind making a good speaker. This certainly renews my respect for speaker designers. Steve I think you sold me on the RP 600M.
Excellent interview with a very knowledgeable guy!
Great interview! Thanks
Thoroughly enjoyed it, as I enjoy my La Scalas, HII's, and KG stuff.
Nice that you have the Jubilee's behind you Roy. @steve Gutenberg, have you heard those? If not, you need to get Roy to set up a listen!!
Wow another great sharing of acoustic experience , that is so genuine and serious authentic know how and is so usefull and makes the klipsch story full honours to his great founder: the giant dear Paul , we are very greatfull for the life music experience that these speakers procure , and at a very decent price, its all real , down to earth , beyond fashions and snobery, and yes we don't talk these days anymore about linear speakerdistortion , the less displacement it has to make ,the less linear distortion, so how does sound a kickdrum or bassnote on a 15 inch speaker versus an 8 inch speaker.....how much conemovement does this 8 inch has to move and go back fast enough!!!! Impossible imho and listening experience, great interview top, thans
Awesome interview...
Fantastic!
So nice to see the faces behind some of the names.
Wish I had room for one. I’ll never forget the first time I heard the Kipschorn.
louie sipes Not every room is suitable for Klipschorns, and it’s not just about how many square feet or metres of floor space you have. You need two adjacent corners where the speaker can be tightly pushed into the corner, to maximize the speakers’ coupling with the walls, since they function as extensions of the bass horns. My room has baseboard heaters and one open wall, so no go for me. As well, they need at least 8-1/2’ of ceiling height, which rules out many rooms.
However, Paul Klipsch designed several speakers in his Heritage Series, because he wanted more people to be able to experience great sound. The La Scalas use the same drivers as the Klipschorn, but in a smaller cabinet that can be placed along a wall. It’s easy to compensate for its bass rolloff, due to its smaller bass horn, by adding a good subwoofer or two. The La Scala + sub combo is considered to be even better than the Klipschorn alone, by more than a few listeners. There’s also the Cornwall, designed to be used in a corner or along a wall. PWK had a sense of humour. Going smaller yet, you find the Forte,, which has a pretty solid bass end, and they’re a lot less expensive than Klipschorns.
If all of those options are still too expensive, consider buying used. Unlike most speakers, which have woofers with foam rubber surrounds and need to be re-surrounded or replaced every 15-20 years, Klipsch woofers are like those used in musical instrument cabinets, with doped-paper surrounds that last almost forever. I have a pair of 45-year-old La Scalas. They were 32 when I bought them, and although they sounded good, after I replaced the crossover capacitors and the tweeters, they sounded even better. Now they’re probably good for another 45 years. It’s the same with the Heresy speakers. They just keep sounding good, decade after decade.
Now that you know the facts, it’s time to determine which speakers you really want, and then begin saving. A special speaker savings account is a great idea. It may take months, maybe quite a few, but it’s doable. Go for it!
Thanks the Both of you and looking forward to the second part.
....now about AMPS - POWER - and - The Path to Least Resistance sound to me like Computers and Programming. I did a LOT of BETA Testing from about 87 to 94 & a smart man (Quicken) told me that the problem with most Programming then was 'Wasting the Power of a New Processor' (the amp) on 'Sloppiness,' because the Programmers had more power.
Over the years most of the Programmers I knew would say the same thing to me, so I understood Mr. Delgado when his comment about 'the path of least resistance,' changed how successful technologies are dropped for convenience.
It appears that if you find a link and of those 2 alike items one is easier to make, even if it never reaches the equivalency of the latter, because of cost. Then often it means dropping the other technology for streamlining whether for cost or other reason.
LUCKILY we have a segment of listeners who understand why that might be a mistake.
I've been using those horn speakers since the 70's. Oh, I've tried others, but the horns give me a stage upon which I see the artist. I am still amazed at the sound of my Cornwall's and Heresy's. I never needed to go to concerts...I have a concert every day at home.
Hi Steve. Funny coincidence that the photo of Paul Klipsch has him standing with a Klipschorn corner cabinet. As a teen, my father had a friend who obtained plans for the corner cabinet and made his own (he was an excellent wood worker). We obtained the speakers when we bought the house from him. This Klipschorn was a pretty unique design. It had a downward firing 15" woofer but the opening for the woofer was semi-circular and it fired into a chamber that opened into the inside rear of the cabinet and the cabinet had an open back. The top part of the cabinet had a horn mid-range and a horn tweeter. While the Klipsch speaker components were not available, he managed to obtain horn drivers, a woofer and proper cross-overs from Electrovoice, who also made excellent horn drivers back in the day and still make great professional speakers for the music industry. To drive the speakers he had a kit built Scott tube amp and matching Scott tube tuner + preamp. The amp was only rated at 32W/ch but you would never know it listening to these speakers. The horns were so efficient that this old system performed better than my friends' modern 100W/ch systems (a lot of power back then) and the sound was incredible. I would drive my neighbour crazy whenever my parents went away, cranking up Deep Purple Machine Head on vinyl. My dad's friend also had a very coveted reel-to-reel version of the 1812 overture; when the cannons went off, the house shook! There is such a huge variety of audiophile equipment out there now, but many people don't realize just how good some of these systems from the 70's could sound.
Just a nitpick: The Klipschorn does not have a "downward firing" woofer. The woofer fires forward.
@@paulbecker2271 this was not an actual Klipsch but hand made from an old set of plans of an early design (late 60s early 70s).
@@edeppel6710 Thank you for the clarification. I own a set of 1968 Klipschorns and know of the interior arrangement of a 1950's model and neither fire downward. Your statement of "not an actual Klipsch" sounds like it may be more accurately stated as not a Klipschorn at all. Even the "SpeakerLab-K" plans that were purported to be clones and distributed for a time had a front-firing woofer. Many Electrovoice drivers were used in factory Klipschorns. Do you still have those cabinets?
@@paulbecker2271 No, I was a teen at the time and the house has since been sold with the system included. Sadly the builder has passed away so I can't ask where he got the designs from. I remember they used Electrovoice crossovers as well similar to the X36.
Steve, this is off-topic, but thanks for mentioning the Jon Faddis recording session. I now have that album, and it's fantastic.
This guy seems like hed been great to just hang out with.
That's a great dude right there! Proud owner of 2 sets of Klipsch speakers.
Here's a question we need answered Steve... What is the technical difference between a horn and a wave guide? Klipsch horns keep getting shorter and wave guides keep getting deeper, so where is the cut off between the two? And what's the difference in sound and interaction with the driver?
I've got a pair of R-15m which I'm enjoying very much.
So amazing the face behind Klipsch I don't know what horns are
A new Jubilee, intended for home use, would be awesome!
What numnuts would downrate this awesome interview....
Awesome interview with Roy...
Roy is awesome
Interesting stuff and great guy. I only heard Klipsch loudspeakers at my buddies house in the late 80s and didn't think they sounded very good...super bright. From that point on I have always correlated Klipsch with something like Bose, but I will now check out more of their stuff. Thanks.
The newer ones are much better, not bright at all
Yeah, “super bright” just like a live concert.
@@Cash2112 Do you own Klipsch? BTW, see the 2112 there...the 2015 vinyl just kills!
You were right in that tgey didn't sound very good. They were bright and dull at the same time.
Roy I like your thinking👍
Glad you’re embracing klipsch that’s what I run
His favorable review of the Klipsch 5000f helped me make a purchasing decision, now I’m patiently waiting for his take on the Tannoy Revolution’s (6/8).
Hanif Barnwell Sorry, I have no plans to review any more Tannoys this year. I did review the Tannoy Cheviot earlier this year
Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac noted
That shirt makes me want to have a lime with beer.
Cucumber soda
Makes me want to call the fashion police.
you mean a "cervezita" right :-)
Met him at 2018 pilgrimage
This interview has renewed my interest in heading down to the '21 pilgrimage.
Roy and his Brother were good friends of mine at one time. Hope he's doing well.
Hello from Brazil Steve.
What would be the best choice between a Klipsch, RP-150M and a KEF Q150. They would be used in a Cambridge SR20 receiver.
Thanks for helping!
I worked with a guy called Fernando Delgado back in California, who must be related to Roy. They look and talk exactly the same. Distant cousins at least.
Fudge factor in my speakers? What the fudge!
What's a horn?? Must be the nephew of the vice president of looking out the window. What a great gig, listening to speakers and getting paid for it!!
Roy! Make a new version of the CF-4 with the K510!!
Sold the Magneplanners. Bought the Klipsch.
Do you have any reviews of Klipsch speakers?
Two of the main reasons horns sound better than non horn loaded speakers reside in the lower distortion figure and the less reverberation they create being directive. Properly designed horns have no horn unless they are integrated the wrong way into a system.
As much as I enjoy a great 'self made engineering wizard' story, and Mr. Delgado certainly does have one. But I just can't go there, with Klipsch products. And it's not for lack of trying.
I have heard quite a few Klipsch models, from budget models, up to top of the line. I had a pair of Heresy IV in my house for several weeks (my cousin bought a pair but had to leave town on business, so I took them off his hands while he was gone), so I got to hear them in a well set up room, driven by very good solid state and tube gear.
When I first got them set up, I was pretty enthralled with them at first. But it did not take too long for their few positive aspects (very dynamic, efficient, and could play loud) to become overshadowed by their negative aspects. Sorry folks, but they come off sounding, to me, like a 'blunt instrument'. They seem to make all music sound like it is coming out of a PA system. While this might be ok for music that is normally reproduced by PA systems, it is not for many other types of music.
I guess some people may say I am not the right customer for Klipsch, since I care more about other aspects of audio reproduction that Klipsch does not excel at (detail, openness, imaging, soundstage, timbre), which is fine, I guess.
pandstar Try listening to music instead of audio reproduction.
The La Scala is a considerable step up in refinement compared to the Heresy, Forte, and Cornwall. I suspect you would be less offended by its sound.
@@philipkeohane2652 I do.
The vast majority of my music collection is made up of prog, prog-metal, jazz, and modern classical. Almost all mainstream recordings.
The reason I am into audio equipment in the first place, is to allow myself to get more emotionally into the music.
The music always comes first.
Nice try, though to try to apply some false stereotype on me, as someone who cares more about the gear than the music.
@@ASherrick02 I've heard some vintage La Scalas, but that was years ago. You are correct, I should give them another listen.
But there are quite a few speakers at around the same cost, that are awfully good. So, the La Scalas would some pretty high hurdles to overcome.
@@philipkeohane2652 It might be that the music I like, is not conducive to the Klipsch signature sound...
I can see if one listens to EDM. punk, mainstream rock, hip hop, or similar, then Klipsch may be the best speaker. But the music I gravitate to tends to be more musicianship oriented, with subtle and not so subtle: changes in: keys, time signatures, tempos, dynamics, emotional content, etc.
I want my system and speakers to navigate those kind of changes with as much accuracy as possible. The various models of Klipsch that I have heard, are not able to do that when compared to other speakers at similar price points.
Again, I admit that I may not be the target audience for Klipsch. But when I see reviews by various audio reviewers that tend to like some of the other audio gear that I like, I assume that the Klipsch will kind of compete with some of those other speakers. At least when Steve Gutenberg reviews them, he comes right out and states that they are 'party speakers', and not really meant for subtlety.
Yo man, There's a nice set of Sansui SPX 7000's for sale locally where I live. They have one less midrange driver than the SPX 8000. Let me know if you'd be interested in working something out to get your hands on em.
Is SG conducting the podcast interview from a garage sale?!
I have a pair of those Sansui SP-X8000. I wonder if he would trade for a Cornwall:)
Link to D.B. Keele's website???
👍Bella Fleck.
The Heresy IV is on sale so have Klipsch stopped making the Heresy III? Their prices are a long way apart so they could be two different models both on sale at the same time. Does anyone know?
The last pair of IIIs were produced months ago. I'm getting this from the Klipsch forum.
It has to be special ordered, used, or the best route is klipsch dealers
The only thing louder than a Klipschorn is Steve's shirt.
I really like the ones he has behind him. Maybe with a enamel coating?! One can dream
Paul mentored Roy, but who is Roy mentoring? Will it all be lost?
Well they are here. When are you going to come out to Hope and see them Steve? You are always welcome at the Klipsch Museum of Audio History - th-cam.com/video/EslUV6OhAHw/w-d-xo.html
If Zeos was old and had a beard...
How do I do this? Hence the period of "eww horns eww klipsch".
Roy a.k.a. "Chief Bonehead"
This man speaks in beard......difficult to catch what he is saying.....
Klipsch are very great speakers, but not for me, I am not a great liker of horn mids an tweeters. Just my ears at an advanced age of 61
Im 62 and I love Klipsch
That's why they make Chocolate and Vanilla.
I'm 73. First tried Klipsch at 68 and only regret that I didn't make the move sooner.
*****Power of Horns***** Power of the coloration of music. Horns ALWAYS color the music! PROVE this to yourself,
speak into a mirror, now cup your hands creating a HORN, speak again, sounded awful didn't it? And it always will.
Spoken by an uneducated troll...
So all brass instruments sound wrong? 😂😂
The test you are referring to is akin to taking a standard midrange driver and playing it devoid of the woofer and tweeter. Try that sometime and see if you get a similar result.
This statement is untrue. Frequency response curves don't lie.
Stupidest post ever.
Really do not like this kind of interview!
Why?
Then it's a shame that someone has a gun to your head and is making you watch it.