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Not getting much sound from the tweeter on my Klipsch forte


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Sounds like the issue is in the crossover. It could be a capacitor or an inductor. I've had to replace capicitors and on one occassion I had to replace an inductor that went bad. The parts are relatively in expensive, but the job requires a little desoldering to remove the old part and soldering to replace it with the new one.

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Sounds like the issue is in the crossover. It could be a capacitor or an inductor. I've had to replace capicitors and on one occassion I had to replace an inductor that went bad. The parts are relatively in expensive, but the job requires a little desoldering to remove the old part and soldering to replace it with the new one.

I bet this is it too. One of those 1.5 uF caps is probably open. It's easy to see if one is open with an ohmmeter. You could also use a little jumper wire and while music is playing jump over the cap and see if you have sound in the tweeter.  

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Just a note, I thought my Forte were sounding a little treble shy when I dug them out of storage from15 years ago.  I ordered new crossovers and the titanium diaphragms to renew them.   Put the crossovers in first and was really happy with the new sound I heard from them.   Then I replaced the diaphragms and was really disappointed.  I could not hear a difference.

 

Was playing with a frequency sweep on You tube, when I discovered I can't hear a damn thing over 4K.  Fortes cross over to the tweeter at 6K!!  duh

 

Damn to get old!

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Just a note, I thought my Forte were sounding a little treble shy when I dug them out of storage from15 years ago.  I ordered new crossovers and the titanium diaphragms to renew them.   Put the crossovers in first and was really happy with the new sound I heard from them.   Then I replaced the diaphragms and was really disappointed.  I could not hear a difference.

 

Was playing with a frequency sweep on You tube, when I discovered I can't hear a damn thing over 4K.  Fortes cross over to the tweeter at 6K!!  duh

 

Damn to get old!

 

 

Good basic online hearing test, test tones, etc tools - Free - 

 

http://hearingtest.online/

 

http://www.audiocheck.net/

 

Lars

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