I miss those days, I probably listened to 1000 speakers in my time and loved doing blind listening tests to see what I picked. The rooms were usually built to contain the sound so other shoppers weren't exposed to louder listening sessions. I remember the days when every department store or electronics store had every speaker they sold setup in one of usually two "sound rooms". Nowadays it's hard to listen to speakers in person and even moreso with covid. It's really strange, never had it happen with other speakers at what I'd consider reasonable volume. As we age highs start to go, I have seen my high frequency hearing degrade quite a bit in the past 5-10 years and the stronger highs of the Klipsch are appreciated, however if i listen to them at even moderate volumes (maybe it's louder than I think) for long periods of time I actually get pain in my ears something I never had in my life. I wasn't sure how I'd like them after all those years and after using the JBL's for quite a few years but immediately I liked them more, I felt like the entire sound of the system "opened up" and I started hearing nuances in recordings I had only noticed wearing headphones previously. I offered him $350 for the pair and he accepted! I wasn't expecting them to be in mint condition and in fact the dust caps have some bumps likely from a child's fingers pushing on them but they're perfectly functional and sound great. I saw a pair on FB marketplace a couple years ago and the owner was asking $500. Fast forward many more years, I'm now in my 50's and when I was younger and had absolutely excellent hearing into my mid 30's I had listened to a pair of Klipsch RF7's and liked them. Moving forward something happened to my D9's and they sounded horrible, maybe the crossovers broke down or something? Anyways I picked up some JBL speakers and was fairly pleased although I still think the vegas sounded better when they were working correctly. I've had some similar setups, when I was a young man in the 80's I bought a pair of gigantic Cerwin Vega D9's, as much as "audiophiles" mocked them the sound was solid at least for what I liked listening to.
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