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I am replacing the crossovers in my Forte II's. Are any of the parts from the original Forte II crossover useable in the Heresy?

I have changed out the diaphragms in the mids and tweets, and the new titanium tweeter diaphragms were the most significant improvement, much better highs, the speakers now have a "sparkle" they did not have before. This is a great upgrade. Also, I ordered crossovers from Al Klappenberger, and they are shipping today, so I will probably install them this coming weekend. Question about the foam inside the cabinet --- I have some Auralex panels (egg carton pattern) and was thinking of removing the standard foam that Klipsch put inside the cabinets and replacing it with Auralex panels glued to the inside walls of the cabinet. Seems like it would absorb more sound waves than the standard foam. Any thoughts?

I just bought a pair of Forte IIs and am working on a complete updateof the cabinets, drivers, and crossovers. While installing new diaphragms in the midrange horns I checked the polarity of the tweeter, mid and woofer, and also saw the tag inside the cabinets indicating the speakers were built in Feb 1991, which would make them early in the production run of the Forte II. So early in fact that the crossover board says Forte, not Forte II, but is built with the 110 mfd capacitor on the woofer, which is what is used on the Forte II, not on the Forte. The assumption is Klipsch used a Forte board to build a Forte II crossover. My question has to do with polarity- the tweet, mid and woof are all connected with the color wire to positive and black to negative, but at the crossover only the woofer is red positive and black negative. The tweet and mid are both connected with black to positive and yellow and green (for mid and tweet respectively) connected to negative, i.e. reverse polarity. It is the same on both speakers. I do not claim to have golden ears, but in my opinion the speakers sound "punchy", and do not have smooth frequency response. Anyone out there have any experience with this ? Bill