What the maker puts in writing
All five bullets, in full:
- “Dual 5.25” Spun-copper IMG woofers”
- “1” Aluminum lts tweeter mated to a 90x90 square tractrix Horn”
- “89Hz - 21kHz plus /- 3dB”
- “Sensitivity 95dB at 2.83V/1m”
- “400 watts power handling”
Five bullets, four of them numbers. On a shelf where nine products publish no sensitivity and twelve publish no tolerance, that is the whole argument.
Plus or minus three decibels is the only one on this shelf
89Hz - 21kHz plus/- 3dB.
That tolerance is what turns a range into a measurement: output stays within three decibels of flat across the band.
Now compare the ranges quoted without one:
Goldwood AA35CB, $38.88 — “70Hz-20 kHz”, no tolerance
Goldwood PSC-43, $42.88 — “85hz-25 kHz”, no tolerance
Micca MB42X-C G2, $89.99 — “55Hz-20kHz”, no tolerance
Micca OoO — “usable bass extension down to 60 Hz”, an honest hedge
Three of those claim to reach lower than this speaker’s 89 Hz. And every speaker produces something at its claimed floor — forty decibels down and inaudible, but something.
This is the only floor on the shelf you can rely on, and the right benchmark to judge the others against.
Eighty-nine hertz is also perfectly sensible for a center channel: in any properly configured system the receiver’s bass management sends everything below about 80 Hz to the subwoofer anyway.
Ninety-five decibels, and what it is worth
Sensitivity is how loud a speaker plays on one watt at one meter, and every 3 dB is a doubling of required power.
this 95 dB · Goldwood AA35CB 92 dB · Goldwood PSC-43 89 dB · Micca MB42X-C G2 86 dB · nine products publish nothing
Nine decibels of spread is a factor of eight. So a 25-watt amplifier drives this as loudly as a 200-watt one drives the Micca.
That decides whether a modest receiver has headroom on a loud scene. And the risk that actually kills speakers is too little power: an amplifier pushed past its limit clips, producing high-frequency energy that burns tweeter coils out.
With 400 W of stated handling and 95 dB of sensitivity, this speaker is very hard to hurt.
One note on the measurement. It is quoted as “95dB at 2.83V/1m” rather than 1 W/1 m. Those are the same thing at 8 ohms — 2.83 volts into 8 ohms is exactly one watt. Into 4 ohms it would be two watts, which would inflate the figure by 3 dB. Klipsch does not publish the impedance here, so take the 95 dB as an 8-ohm figure and verify if you can.
The horn is where much of that efficiency comes from
1” Aluminum LTS tweeter mated to a 90x90 square Tractrix Horn.
A horn does two things at once.
It aims the treble. Ninety degrees horizontally and ninety vertically — the only coverage angle published on this shelf. On a center speaker that is exactly the right thing to control, because the audience is spread sideways: a bare dome narrows sharply as frequency rises, so the person in front hears a different balance from the person at the end of the sofa.
And it raises efficiency. A horn couples the small, light dome to the much larger mass of air in the room far more effectively than a bare dome can, which is where a good part of the 95 dB comes from.
Two other products here use the principle without publishing an angle: JBL’s HDI horn and Neumitech’s waveguide, which describes the result honestly as “predictable”.
LTS is Klipsch’s own tweeter design — Linear Travel Suspension — intended to keep the dome’s motion true to the signal and reduce distortion.
Spun-copper IMG, and the width
IMG is injection-molded graphite: light and rigid, which pushes cone breakup above the crossover point. The copper color is cosmetic and a Klipsch signature.
Dual 5.25 in is the second largest driver pair on this shelf, after the Triangle’s 6.5 in at $459.
And the cabinet is 18.7 in (476 mm) wide — large for a TV unit, though well short of the JBL’s 29.1 in (739 mm), which is twenty-nine inches. At 7.64 in (194 mm) tall it needs more clearance than the Polk’s 3.50 in (89 mm) or the Yamaha’s 5.20 in (132 mm).
6,123 g is published.
What is not published
No impedance, which matters doubly here because the sensitivity is quoted in volts.
No enclosure type and no port direction. On a center speaker — the one that always lives in a confined space — that is the question worth asking: a rear port shoved into a cabinet is choked. Triangle’s BRC2 alone publishes front-facing vents; Goldwood’s AA35CB and Dayton’s C40 are sealed and do not care.
No crossover slope, where three Miccas publish one. No off-axis treatment named, though the horn addresses half of that problem directly.
Prices quoted in this text were read on October 4, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
