I recently seen Tangent 500s for sale on ebay. I was looking to down size myself and was wonedering what my 400s are worth. If I upgrade is the cost of selling these off worth the new price to power? My center experinced a meltdown and my Pioneer quit on me so I would be in the market for new stuff.  

The Tangent 500 is slightly larger (taller) than the 400. It uses a passive radiator instead of ports as in the 400. I would stick with what you've got if it were me. The 400 has slightly less power handling, misses 3 Hz on the bottom that the 500 has. I wouldn't think it is worth the trouble to change. They both use Heresy II parts.

Bruce

kirk,

I'm with Bruce on this. I don't think you'd come out appreciably better "upgrading" to Tangent 500's.

The Tangent 400 is the biggest sleeper in the history of Klipsch. IMO.

I've been so tempted to build the Tangent 400 cabinets out of some nice baltic birch and move all my drivers over from my HIIs. All off a sudden there would be more bottom end. Then I'd have to store the HII cabs...

you and me, too. I'd love to actually hear them. Two or three years ago there was an Ebay seller (in Nashville) who had a pair for $260, VGC that went a week with no bids. Second listing finally sold them with one bid. I was so glad. If they'd gone a third week I would have had to buy them and road trip for pick up. I just could not justify it in the midst of other things, but what a good deal.