Klipsch rehauls budget Reference speakers for hi-fi, home cinema and Dolby Atmos systems

Klipsch Reference Series
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Klipsch has brought its reliable, best-selling Reference speakers into their seventh generation.

The new range is aesthetically familiar and yet benefits from what the US brand is calling the most dramatic upgrades since its inception, with many technologies in the higher-ranging Reference Premiere models now trickling down to these Reference ones.

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The new Reference range boasts larger and enhanced versions of Klipsch's edge-to-edge proprietary Tractrix horn driver, as well as Linear Travel Suspension (LTS) aluminium tweeters. Completing a suite of new drivers for the new series are spun-copper thermoformed crystal polymer (TCP) woofers, which have adopted steeper cone angles in the name of improved crossover integration and smoother response.

The black, wood grain vinyl-finished cabinets, meanwhile, are now better braced and, alongside metallic binding posts, sport Dolby Atmos connections that allow for easy, discrete height channel integration.

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Becky is a hi-fi, AV and technology journalist, formerly the Managing Editor at What Hi-Fi? and Editor of Australian Hi-Fi and Audio Esoterica magazines. With over twelve years of journalism experience in the hi-fi industry, she has reviewed all manner of audio gear, from budget amplifiers to high-end speakers, and particularly specialises in headphones and head-fi devices.

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