jmmoore51

I am looking at some Forte II's on eBay. The cabinets look great and drivers appear fine but both passive radiators are damaged. Where can one get new passive radiators or can they be reconed like a woofer? I think the radiator is a KD15 from digging through my old spec files. My plan would be to use the Fortes in my theatre set up and move my Heresy Is to my library which is a stereo only listening environment currently served by a pair of JBL L36s. Thanks John

Good job Trot! Sorry about model # mix-up mine is an SW10 Series II which I think is an earlier model. I think the KW is ported, where mine has a passive radiator. In anycase you are now rocking. John

I assume you have not had a response. The power indicator light light is located immediately to the left of the power switch. If you are plugged in and the power switch is on (up) and no light, unplug the unit and check the fuse which is located to the right of the power switch. Moving can often break the fragile filiment in what is basically an old fashioned automotive type fuse. I really like the SW10, I guess you do too. John

I need help. Been out of the loop for a while. My 76 Heresy's potentially experienced lightning surge. Although they seem fine I am concerned. Plus I keep reading all thi8s stuff about the crossovers. One of your gand was trying to help me but I lost all the data. ooops. john m moore

Thanks, Fortunately they were built about 75 miles north of here. Our average humidity is 80% and mine started life as Birch plywood and have been polyurethaned since day 3. Opposite problem for JBL fans, the humidity kills those ridiculously weak woofer surrounds. I met Paul in 1991 when I almost went to work for the sales dept.

Anybody, please see my thread in tech ??? Thanks. JMM

Great feed back Guy's I appreciate it. Being a major Klipsch apostle it's suddenly nice to know there are other guys out there that care about preserving the best speaker systems ever made! I particularly enjoyed the response regarding sealing of the cabinets for tighter bass response but I run my SW10 in stereo as well as theater I probably wouldn't hear the difference. Thanks to Gil for his quick and helpful advice. Sounds like I need to pop these guys open and determine which crossover I have (fortunately I have consecutive serial numbers) buy the caps, install and put back together. A couple more ???'s. Anybody see a "kit" to change the H1 from the screw strip to binding post/banana plug? Ala the H2. Remodeling the house, sure would make moving these guys around easier plus save the wear and tear on the old Phoenix Gold speaker cables. One more and I'm done. Does any one have a Heresy 1 owner's manual they could E-mail me. Mine are vintage 1976, the manuals and original cartons were lost when I moved back to Shreveport from Atlanta. My brother decided to liberate my Heresy's from storage for his own use and 86'd the cartons and stuff. johnmmoore44@hotmail.com is my address. Thanks again guys, I am glad I discovered this forum, I had given up on getting any help with some of this stuff. John

Thanks Gil, I appreciate your comments. I am the original owner of the units and live only 1.5 hours from the original plant. Could you provide an E-mail address or link to find replacement caps. I think I can handle a soldering iron since I used to build Knight kits when I was a kid. I would appeciate cautions or advice regarding the opening of the boxes. As far as I can tell all drivers are perfect, at least I can guarantee the woofers and squawkers are, my concern about tweeter performance triggered this inquiry. Klipsch eats Bose for breakfast, Polk for lunch and B&W for dinner! Thanks, JM

These speakers have never been overdriven, I mean come on it doesn't take a bunch of watts to get hugh sound out of these guys. The only thing I know of that concerns me is recent lightning strike about 1 1/2 years ago that fried all my phones and my modem and affected the FM performance of my Yamaha but when the Yamaha went into protective mode it emitted an extremely high frequency signal but when reset everything except the fact that I can only hear NPR in mono (or Manual on a Yamaha) seems fine.

I have read a number of comments on other sites referring to degradation of tweeter and squawker performance in the Heresy. Other than having them tested, is there someway to determine if mine have problems. My Heresy's are 1976 vintage, have never been opened, and seem to sound just find with my Jazz (stereo) and Theater (5.1) sources. Comments please.