Wws

Your Fortes are worth refreshing, just watch that cat. I myself recently completely refreshed my 1990 Chorus II and they sound stellar. I got everything from Bob Crites who has been supplying upgrades and parts for older Klipsch speakers quite sometime, Google his name along with Klipsch. I looked at buying caps and recapping myself and saw just how reasonable he was based on his recapping kit, I ended up with his replacement crossovers, Ti tweeter diaphragms and the mid diaphragms that he offers. Trifecta of top quality, excellent service and quite reasonable, no affiliation he just earned my respect. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Much appreciated, thanks. I just feel bad for the two pair of Heresy's that I currently don't have in play. One pair used to be my rear pair, and I had dreams of 7.1 system when I found the second pair in a pawn shop. There is just not enough room for four Heresy's in the periphery of the living room, so they languish.

The subject describes me and my Klipsch speaker experience, and I suspect I am not alone. I have had the same pair of Chorus II's since bought new in 1990 in the AAFES exchange while living in Germany. They have travelled with me half way around the world, and were specified by name in the dispersion of property in my divorce from the first wife 10 years later. In the subsequent years I have done my due diligence, careful packing, care for the wood surfaces, a recent recap via Crites replacement crossovers, and Crites Ti tweeter diaphragms (both presents from my second wife for my Birthday). They are playing as I type and are sounding better than ever. I have driven them with various solid state amps and recently found my way to feeding them with a low wattage 6V6 push pull amp, which they shine with. I have also recently turned my attention to making my listening space improved by setting it up appropriately and adding acoustic treatments where needed. I realize that I am a " the Klipsch sound" fan, and I'm a happy camper, thats not a bad place to be now is it? So are you like me or still chasing the rainbow? Owe, by the way it is my birthday today and I thought I would spend a little of it on here talking with you.

I could see where certain sax would be good to uncover harshness. My system currently is a restored and modded Magnavox console 8802 amplifier, with an integrated volume attenuator added, it is a 6v6 push pull type, which has a very clear and pleasant sound. This is only my first post as Wws, I was Schmidlapper on here pre forum change over. I lost my old user id because of the requirement to set a new password after change, and I had a no longer valid email listed as my default, so couldn't finish the password change process. It really was just easier to create a new one, regardless I didn't post that frequently. I learn the most by listening.

After redoing my Chorus IIs with Bob Crites crossovers and installing a pair of his Ti tweeter diaphragms, both great products by the way, I immediately noticed a brightening of the sound which was to be expected with fresh caps, but I also noticed on a few songs a harsh unpleasantness. I at first suspected the Ti diaphragms as they were the biggest design deviation made, and after some reading on line I found other references to crunchy and harshness with Ti to fuel my concerns. Two songs in particular were downright difficult to listen to, Aerosmith's; "Somebody" and The Rolling Stones's; "Respectable". Long story short, upon further investigation I discovered that the unpleasantness was not coming from the tweeters, but the squawkers. I had read somewhere in my investigations that even a slightly lose squawker could add harshness, so I tightened all of the screws and found maybe half were up to half a turn loose. This did the trick and removed all of the harshness that I had been hearing before. Now as to my subject, I really credit those two harsh to begin with songs for pushing my system to the limit and uncovering that I had a problem. Does anyone else have songs that they consider to be a good troubleshooting tool? I can suggest two.