GaneshSingh

My friend had them in AZ. He gifted them to me knowing how much I like vintage speakers. These sound really nice with another $20 goodwill find 1979 Hitachi SR-604 (class G or dynaharmony) receiver. There is a gentleman in my town who said that I should disconnect the horn drivers on Barcelona (he thinks they burn ears if you listen them for too long). Personally I did not experience it. He then suggested that I only use the 15" LF driver from Barcelona and the cabinet, then add JBL 2123h mid range and JBL 2405h slot tweeters and buy old crown d-45, d-75a and d150a amplifiers and an active crossover and make a tri-amp system (or add one more jbl compression driver and another amplifier and make a quad-amp thingy). I am reading on google about these, seems very complicated to me. The other option would be to hire this gentleman and pay him to configure the tri-amp stuff.

Here they are. Resting.

I am back. I changed the capacitors in my forte's crossover. They do sound better than earlier to my ears. Meanwhile I got Altec barcelona speakers. Sorry, but these altec's sound a lot better than Fortes, maybe because these are bigger and heavier. And this time I did not have to pay a dime for speakers, Just a lot of labor to move them to my house. Apologies but the fortes have been stored in my bedroom closet. Thanks Ganesh

The writing on the speaker binding says 1985. Wow...

Agree. Thanks, I will take care of them. I already polished the cabinets, they are shiny and clean now and are in for a long stay and love.

Many thanks. They are in my living room already and B&Ws are back in a corner. I will not let these go, these are beautiful...

You can have the Bowers and Wilkins 603 S2 for free . 😁 Sorry, B&Ws look pretty but to me they do not sound as good as the Fortes....

Many thanks again for kind words everyone. I got the 250v capacitors as blvrde suggessted, thanks again. I think these are small and should work fine. But the thing that surprised me is the 47uf non-polarized capacitor. It is tiny compared to the original, that kindda bothered me. What a shrinkage. wonder why?... hmmm.. This small bipolar capacitor will definitely free up a lot of space and give me a good wiggle room. I am not changing the lone resistor. I will post more pictures once done recapping the crossover. Boy these speakers do sound nice as is.

Many Thanks, I appreciate it. I will order the 250v ones, I just looked them up, they are definitely smaller. I blindly copied the parts from https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/re-capped-my-fortes.371297/. Now when I saw the pictures in the thread carefully again, his Forte 1 has square binding plate (that explains the crossover pcb) and mine is round and everything is point to point soldered. They must've made two kinds of Forte 1s. Regards Ganesh

Hello Everyone. Thank you all for the welcome. I sincerely appreciate it. I scored a lot of Vintage Equipment in Santa Fe, NM for cheap. Always $20 or so. Here are some of them 1. Akai - G747 Reel - (Beautiful piece of equipment) - $20 2. JBL Jubal - (Awesome speakers with glass top and glass prism like tweeters, my co-worker Don showed up at my house and won't leave until I gave them to him. I let them go) - $20 3. Luxman M363 - Amp - (Very loud, heavy and huge) - $20 - in Garage now (needs recap most probably) 4. MARANTZ 4230 - QUADRADIAL (Neighbor took it when he saw it lying in my Garage) - $20 5. Bowers & Wilkins DM 603-S2 speakers - $50 - (I tried to haggle for $20 they won't budge) 6. Harman Kardon - HK6600 power amp - $20 (I love this amp, this amp is driving the Forte speakers) 7. Hafler Preamp - can't remember the model - $10 (pots scratchy, need deoxit) 8.Carver SD/A-390t - awesome 5-disc vacuum tube cd player -- This one really sounds very nice - with Remote - $20 9.Carver SD/A-390t - awesome 5-disc vacuum tube cd player -- This one really sounds very nice - without Remote - $10 I have stopped hunting vintage audio lately as wife gets very upset. She made me get rid of a lot of my collection. Nowadays I will only buy if there is something really sought after. Thanks Ganesh

Scored a mint pair of Klipsch forte 1 in Santa Fe, NM goodwill store. $29 for the pair. Mint condition. They sound amazing as it is. After reading thru the forums, seems like I need to change the capacitors.So ordered the solen 1.5u and 1.0u 630 caps and Elna Bipolar 47u 100v cap. But when I opened the speaker binding plate there is no PCB (i think i saw pcb on a post here who recapped the crossover in forte 1 ). Now I need to somew how cram the new capacitors. But what a steal. Thanks Ganesh