Emile

Hi Youthman, Thanks for the "tip." As a "newbee," I am still trying to "learn" this site. And ... just learned how to leave "positive feedback" through the "heart icon." Many "newbee's" don't even understand this feature. Any link to where we can find info on this ... and "ratings" ... and ... etc. Cheers, Emile

Ready to sent some emails to him

OOPS ... couple of glasses of wine .. seller is an ******* Buyer is GREAT

OK; buyer is an a..hole. And doesn't even know he's got Forte II's instead of I's. Ignore his stupidity and attitude and just get them! YES; upgrade the diaphragms for $61! Cheers, Emile

Add-on to dtel. Tried to find out "how many speakers" Klipsch sold but could not find an answer. Apologize for "thousands" ... THANKS from millions of us!

Boring ... are you crazy? Absolutely AWESOME! THANK YOU for giving me and thousands/thousands of people the incredible pleasure we get form listening to YOUR incredible sound. THANK YOU!

99% sure you are right! Checked my Forte 1's ... smaller radiator Forte ii's are "preferred" over the I's.

Jachko, It's just the center cone that has been "pushed in." Normally nothing to worry about (and you can pull it out with tape or a vacuum cleaner) ... but do check closer when you pick them up. Cheers, Emile

Give your friend Roy my thanks also

Jachko, Wrinkled? If it is just the center cone that has a dent in it, it can usually be fixed. Try putting some masking/duct tape on it and see if you call "pull it out." If that doesn't work, (carefully) use suction from a vacuum cleaner. No clue how the surround could be wrinkled ... if it is, take a closer look because the radiators need to be "sealed" to operate correctly. But ... you can usually find replacements on fleaBay. Just sold a set of radiators (out of my "bad" KG5.2's) for $35. Cheers, Emile

dtel, Thanks! You just saved me $250! Many people told me to replace them, but was hesitant to do so ... especially since I replaced the crossovers on my Cornwall 1's and could hear no difference. So; now I have $250 to spend on some more Klipsch speakers

Awesome! FYI, the case alone is worth $150. (If you have it "inside" a cabinet you don't really need the case. ) You'll like it! Have a Marantz 2252B and think it sounds better than my "cheap" Pilot 210 tube amp. Cheers, Emile

"Stole" a pair of Forte 1's a couple of weeks ago for $500 ... walnut and in 100% pristine condition Had to drive 240 miles (roundtrip) to get them, but well worth it. Replaced the diaphragms with Crites' titanium ones (highly recommended ... $61 incl. shipping). Awesome ... almost as good as my Cornwall 1's Heard the RF-82's ... very good and IMHO "close" but "missing something" compared with the Forte's. (Disclaimer ... unable to do a direct A/B comparison.) Cheers, Emile

Have to add Brian may of Queen ... actually Dr. Brian May - astrophysicist and past chancellor of Liverpool University. Reminds me of Freddie Mercury. If someone starts a thread on "legendary lead singers," he is absolutely # 1.

Are we forgetting Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana?

Yeah; know what you mean Joined "after" you did and have been hesitant to post some questions But response to even my "stupid" questions/remarks has been very positive

Just replaced my (Forte) tweeter diaphragms with the Crites Ti ones. Did them "one-by-one" to compare them with the "old" ones. MAJOR difference! Believe it pulls in the higher harmonics (from the fundamental notes) resulting in a much clearer sound. (But ... also could have been because my tweeters were "dying" ... old ones measured 12 ohms vs new ones at 8 ohms.) Getting ready to try new Crites crossovers ... have not ordered them yet as they are "not cheap" (and heard NO difference when I replaced them on my Cornwall's. bkevind ; let us know if you hear a (substantial) difference Thanks, Emile

Yes but from the same article ... on the harmonics I was looking at ... Quote For example, the series 1 + 1 /2 + 1 /3 + 1/ 4 + . . . is called the harmonic series, and it has terms that tend to zero. But the sequence of partial sums for this series tends to infinity. So this series does not have a sum. Unquote So ... it "blows up."

Add-on ... OK, thought every fundamental frequency (primary tone on an instrument) had its associated 1/2, 1/3rd, etc harmonics with 1/2, 1/3rd, etc amplitudes. Yes, each instrument is different and the design of each instrument determines the amplitude of the harmonics. Some, such as percussion, have very little harmonics. Another example, the clarinet, has very few "even" numbered harmonics due to its cylindrical resonance chamber. Still learning

Yeah ... I now am completely lost The RMS ... 0.707 comes directly from the sine function ... i.i. 1 / squareroot 2 . Even stranger is the fact that the harmonics series 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... 1/n is divergent, meaning the total sum is infinite ... meaning the sound becomes louder and louder. obviously not the case Any audiophile (who is also a physicist/mathematician) for a response?

Add-on ... The above shows the (odd) harmonics for a square wave. Triangle waves have even harmonics. Assume my amp outputs any combination, but really have no clue. Help

Partial from https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/32310/what-exactly-are-harmonics-and-how-do-they-appear 27down voteaccepted Sinusoidal waves don't have harmonics because it's exactly sine waves which combined can construct other waveforms. The fundamental wave is a sine, so you don't need to add anything to make it the sinusoidal signal. About the oscilloscope. Many signals have a large number of harmonics, some, like a square wave, in theory infinite. This is a partial construction of a square wave. The blue sine which shows 1 period is the fundamental. Then there's the third harmonic (square waves don't have even harmonics), the purple one. Its amplitude is 1/3 of the fundamental, and you can see it's three times the fundamental's frequency, because it shows 3 periods. Same for the fifth harmonic (brown). Amplitude is 1/5 of the fundamental and it shows 5 periods. Adding these gives the green curve. This is not yet a good square wave, but you already see the steep edges, and the wavy horizontal line will ultimately become completely horizontal if we add more harmonics. So this is how you will see a square wave on the scope if only up to the fifth harmonic are shown. This is really the minimum, for a better reconstruction you'll need more harmonics. So ... still believe the harmonics have a HUGE effect ... and actually the sum of the harmonics (50% + 33.3% + 25% + etc.) is "stronger" than the fundamental component

source: http://www.independentrecording.net/irn/resources/freqchart/main_display.htm

If anyone feels like reading 91 pages here is a link discussing this (without answering everything) ... http://astro.pas.rochester.edu/~aquillen/phy103/Lectures/D_Fourier.pdf

WMcD, Still puzzled, but ... if we try to make a SQUARE wave from sine harmonics, we "only" use the "odd" harmonics. So ... your "tenth" harmonic is actually the "twentieth." (Triangle waves are "made" from "even" harmonics. But, still cannot explain the major dB drop. If we take a string ... and "pluck it" ... we do get the fundamental frequency and ALL harmonics with frequencies f1 through n*fn and amplitutes A1 through n*An (i.e. sound levels 1.0, 0.5, 0.33, etc). The resulting "tone" is the sum off all these frequencies (and their corresponding 1.0/0.5/0.33/etc amplitudes). Maybe I have no clue of the actual waves that make up music OK; what am I missing