[Heresy IIIs seem a bit too bright.]

Hey Ironsave, I moved the table behind the left Heresy and moved both speakers within 14" of the rear wall. Actually, they sounded less good there, so I moved them back to the original position. I DID notice an improvement by removing the table that was behind the left speaker, though. Moving the fake plant behind the sub did not make an apparent difference. So I will leave it there in the interests of maintaining an acceptable WAF.

On another note (pun intended), I got out my handy dandy Radio Shack sound pressure level meter this morning, placed it three feet in front of the left speaker, turned off the subwoofer, and played the warble tone map from the Stereophile Test CD #2. What it showed (among other things) was a bump in the bass relative to the other frequencies from 100 HZ down to 70 Hz. After this, sound pressure gradually decayed until it reached 20Hz Interestingly, the speaker did produce measurable and audible sound at 20Hz.

At any rate, I responded by adjusting the low pass roll-off on my sub from 80 Hz where it was to 70Hz, to account for the new information gained by this morning's experiment. The result is that the setup sound much less harsh that it did before adjustment. It seems possible that the fatigue I was experiencing was due to a bass hump around 80 Hz, reinforced by my subwoofer.

Andy

[Heresy IIIs seem a bit too bright.]

Ironsave, My Heresys are 7' apart, and the rear of each box is 21" from the rear wall. My sub is in the right corner. There isn't really a left corner, since the living room opens into the dining room on the left. My couch is 13' from the center plane of the speakers.

Here are some photos.

Not really looking to get into tubes.

Andy

[Heresy IIIs seem a bit too bright.]

Hi. I am new to this forum.

Well, after listening to a pair of Apogee Centaurs for almost 20 years, I sold them in order to find something with a better low end. I have a Velodyne FSR12 sub, but even so it can't compensate for the limited output of the 8" woofers in the Centaurs and still sound natural.

So I bought a pair of Heresy IIIs direct from Klipsch. They have about 100 hours of play time on them now.

I am powering them with a Bryston preamp and amp. I have a Roksan turntable, MacIntosh CD player and FM tuner, and a Polk XM receiver.

The Heresy's are very revealing and they soundstage quite easily. However, they seem somewhat bright and fatiguing to listen to for extended periods. Horns such as sax and trumpet seem particularly forward and blaring (I listen to alot of jazz). The bass is indeed better than with the Centaurs, but without the sub the HIIIs are a bit short in the lower regions.

I am considering sending the HIIIs back ( I still have a couple of weeks) and looking for a used pair of Fortes, Forte IIs, Chorus, or Chorus IIs. I am wondering whether these choices would seem less bright and more evenly balanced than the Heresy IIIs. I have considered the Cornwalls, but they are simply bigger than I want. The 7" narrower Choruses would be about the largest I would want.

Your thoughts?

Thanks.