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Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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. -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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 -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
The writing on the speaker binding says 1985. Wow... -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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. -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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... -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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.... -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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. -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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 -
Forte Score - $29 - Goodwill of Santa Fe, NM
GaneshSingh replied to GaneshSingh's topic in General Klipsch Info
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