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Long before Klipsch started making mass market speakers, they built these very high end horn speakers. The sensitivity is so high (well over a hundred), it takes only a few watts to drive them, so 7 watt Class A triode tube amps would work fine. Back in those days, amplifiers were not very powerful anyway, and in early movie theaters, the amplifiers only had a few watts.

In this case, they were using amplifiers more in the 50 to 200 watt range, made by Atma-sphere.

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