Sorry - but that still doesn't make sense. ALL boats rise with a high tide.

Since posting I made a few calls to recording people - and they could not think how a high efficiency speaker with a FLAT curve (hopefully more a 'line') - and thus a HIGH FIDELITY speaker (fidelity to the original sound - garbage in, garbage out) - would be tilted more towards reproducing 'hiss' (let's call it white noise since we don't really know the spectrum except what's been said here seems to at least indicate a white-sound 'mix') than any other speaker - high OR low-efficiency.

If Klipsch has crazy peaks in the upper (over 5 kHz) area then it is just an anomaly - and however much one might like it - (some people like ketchup on a good steak) - it is NOT a high fidelity speaker! (Mind you I have NOT accused Klipsch of such - I am just saying that would be the logical consequence if one is saying Klipsch is 'hissing' more than other speakers).

[This message has been edited by John Padova (edited November 25, 2002).]