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