JohnJ

If one of your Forte IIIs makes a noise like wire hangers bumping when you move it around, it might not be awful. Could be a design miscue I've found. Put this out in case you experience it. Not powered on, on a anti resonance pad to level out a corner of it being up on a half inch thick wool rug. My nephew's nerf ball went behind it and I placed my hand on top and it rocked a little....I heard a rattle inside. Crap. They sound great, but could this be trouble in the future? I'd read about LaScalas with not completely hooked up wiring, loose screws behind the grill of F3's. Called @MetropolisLakeOutfitters looking for advice and being concerned. Thanks for the time and your help Cory! If you need some new Klipsch look this guy up! I pulled out @Chief bonehead's mumps masterpiece, it's hefty like 7 or 8 lbs! Nothing loose in there at all, I rocked the speaker a little and saw the wires from the tweeter bump the metal frame for the passive radiator making that metallic sound. There's no tension involved, no sharp edge to chafe the wire, no bow or stern in my home either. My new 027 gem in the corner of the room is safe!

Haven't had any classical on the record player yet, thinking of putting the new cartridge on first. Had a little more time with them and they do sound great as I turn it up more. If I turn down the preamp some (keep it on 25 out of 30 mostly) I get a good range of volume and sound pressure between say 8am and 10am that I can still think of something else while listening. What I've done is turned it all backwards, the Heresy's are in the big room now, and they do the tv and radio very well in there without me having to rearrage the furniture too much. I did have to raise the speakers a little because of placing one behind the sofa. It's not great but it sure sounds better in there!

That's pretty clean pine too.

That's a substantial little shelf! Did she/you glue 2X4s together for the shelves themselves? Just like power supplies for my pc I think furniture that weighs more is just better. I like wood better than all the other materials except for the facade of a house.

@Speed Pretty sure it is the Who that's in the Guinness Book of World Records with that. Teddy......Heck I didn't even buy a ticket, we went downtown and hung out at a park two blocks away from the opening of the horseshoe opposite the stage. Heard every bit of his antics and tortured guitar and my favorite "Great White Buffalo"!

D@mn Straight! Hope you and that pretty gal from the about page at your site have a humongous house with a good foundation! You have all those great Klipsch on the same setup? That place could be as loud as a Ted Nugent concert in 1976, there were complaints from a mile away from Memorial Stadium (open football stadium) when he played there one time around then.

@dtel They're everything that you & @dtel's wife said they were. Love `em. Frequency response is better, open spacious sounding mids and highs kinda like what the folded woofer speakers offer. I really think these are more lifelike sounding than my old ones ever were. I'm disappointed in the wood grain on my pair but I've gotten over it already (Although I tell them my tacos better look like the pic or I'm throwing `em back across the counter at taco *ell)!

Gettin' acquainted with the new speakers:

Messed with the placement. The bass is a lot better, but I started listening with more intent towards the sound not the tunes. Now both six inches from the outside wall, nine from the back at the corners there's a lot more space behind them and it's sounding even better! *7/15/17 Fine Tuning. Pushed them back to 5" and 8" respectively, the low frequencies are more focused at the opposite wall now.

As in living, breathing. Yes it is that much of a difference here too.

We've got some cherry wood smoked bacon in the fridge. Never tried it before, Sat we're having a good breakfast then BLT's later.

And cherry with sanding sealer, or clear varnish is forever lightly red and beautiful also!

Even my Heresys had good bass in the corners. These are just awesome!

The bass on mine is awesome with Jagger doing Sweet Thing and especially Use Me. Vocals are so real with these speakers. Going to try straight out from the wall about 6 to 8 inches and see what that gets me next. I have not been able to turn it up over halfway yet but the more I've pumped in the better it gets with these Fortes!

The sound of these Forte IIIs is terrific. The high, mid and low range of sound is so much more complete, rich, full adjectives galore. Sure I'll move them some more, in a 12 x 12 bedroom now. Clarity and spaciousness of the mid and high drivers is reminiscent of the "big Klipsch" speakers. The bass is a lot better than my Heresy IIs. They obviously need to be in a bigger room. Bypassing the tone control on my amp, it was a new experience with Mick Jagger's Wandering Spirit and Heart's Magazine. Get pics here after I rebuild my PC again. Woke to it doing that update bootloop again. Thanks to all of you that offered you knowledgeable opinions a few months ago. This was money well spent. If you've read about them and are thinking about them stop. Contact @MetropolisLakeOutfitters and get a pair or three.

Pulled them out today to move them. The metal emblems from the dealer Sound Systems has the model and part numbers imprinted in them. No 8s or 9s as the second digit and these ARE a Sequential numbered pair even though the wood doesn't match. They're # 13751 & 13752 according to the metal emblem the dealer put on them.

I'll get `em tomorrow!! The Polks had to come off the walls for me to get the Heresys in the den. Right now that will do. The H IIs might have to come up off the ground a little, we'll see. The tv does sound better this evening of course. Got spots ready for the first stop for the Fortes. This will make my week better since I found out yesterday I separated the tendon from my hip to the quad in my left leg last weekend. Hate getting cut on, looks like thats the only option for this.

@Trentster5172 My pc's got decent sound, but the bass poles on my speakers from your videos@ 1080 without even being turned up. Just can't handle what you rig can put out over a video that probably wasn't even made on professional, hollywood type recording equipment. Was it? Good job, we're on the same wavelength about subs...ya can't have just one if you want stereo imaging. Enjoy and make sure your insurance has that inflation clause built into it.

@Thaddeus Smith That's what I thought about my 2 pair of 501s after I hooked up my Heresy IIs for the first time.

OK, I'll Bite. Two pairs of open Forte III boxes, no caption. Did you decide you wanted two sets of these to rock your place sufficiently?

@Kevin S You're right that's the easiest, quickest thing to do. Heresys are the smallest of the Heritage line but they are not wimpy.... think of "Popeye the Sailor man" !!

Hi Rick, well I've read it could do this or accomplish that and I think that's where the opinions and debate are. I know my 80 watts/ch amp will be 60w/ch using A & B. So I'll have 60 watts going to each woofer and 60 to each higher frequency by however the crossover is set up. 240 > 160 @MrBell Those H IIIs are beauties, the office does look sparsely decorated (like an office). Curtains would be the easiest way to improve the sound quality in there. Real ones not the see-through stuff. Other than that upholstered furniture could help if not in the sound path. My experience with my Yamaha Natural Sound and Heresy IIs was some recordings sounded too bright, I dropped the high and left the mid and bass at flat or just dialed up the variable loudness a little. I like the sound keeping it as close to flat an I can with it.

Perfect!

If it was metal you were changing the finish on it would be different, but on a porous surface stain to paint is easy. Painted to stain or worse... a clear coating, you'd have to remove millimeters of wood.

Hi @Thaddeus Smith I was a painter in my last life. The amount of sanding that you would have to do after stripping I'd consider prohibitive towards something like a sanding sealer or varnish finish. Plus the dust all over the circuitry. Test with denatured alcohol or "Goof Off" , if black comes off on the rag it's latex based. I always check to be sure, don't know what regulations could have forced Klipsch to do. If you've got some actual Lacquer, heck yea it was beautiful on all the old cars and it would be on your LaScalas. Scuff it up evenly and if you've got an airless use it.