All klipschorns need a corner to take advantage of the room gain. a conventional Speaker designed to be flat in a corner will lose over 9 db of output when placed on the floor in the center of a room below 100 cycles typically. Read about Mcintosh ML series speakers and why they needed a room equalizer. ML-2s were fairly flat if installed near a corner to 20 HZ. An ML1 needed almost 12 db of boost if hanging in free space. A Cornwall loves to be up against a wall and near a corner for best bass. Pulling it away into the room will cause its bass to falter and is an enclosed system. When K horn is in a corner of a room the corner is an extension of the horn, if removed from that corner even with a back the coupling is no longer their and the bass performance collapses. Then the only way to make bass is by brute force with massive cone area and long excursions, which totally defeats the idea of a Klipschorn. Then you need something like a Mcintosh XRT2k speaker system with a 2k amps. And totally defeats the klipschorn concept at 10 times the price for just the speakers.
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