KLIPSCH RP-600
Klipsch has been in the loudspeaker business since 1946, when founder Paul Wilbur Klipsch developed his famous ‘Klipschorn’, which took advantage of horn-loading technology to improve both low and high-frequency performance while at the same time using it to increase dispersion and reduce distortion. Horn-loading a loudspeaker can do all this so, not surprisingly, it’s been a part of Klipsch’s technological ‘DNA’ ever since.
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On the Klipsch RP-600, horn-loading is used to improve the performance of the company’s proprietary 25mm diameter titanium-diaphragm ‘LTS’ (Linear Suspension Travel) tweeter. The horn geometry is also Klipsch’s own ‘Hybrid Cross-Section Tractrix’. The word ‘Tractrix’ is just a description of the geometry of the horn’s curve: another word for it is an equitangential curve, and this curve shape was first used in a loudspeaker by English engineer Paul Voigt.
The beauty of the Klipsch’s Tractrix horn is that whereas the more commonly used exponential horn shapes have
