jazzer Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Last Saturday I attended the Axpona show at the Renaissance Hotel in Schaumbug,Illinois and during my tour of exhibitor rooms I stopped in room 1414 to check out what was on display from Klipsch.However,I only stayed a few minutes because the volume on the Klipsch Fortes was turned down so low I could not really get a good idea of what they sounded like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 8 minutes ago, jazzer said: Last Saturday I attended the Axpona show at the Renaissance Hotel in Schaumbug,Illinois and during my tour of exhibitor rooms I stopped in room 1414 to check out what was on display from Klipsch.However,I only stayed a few minutes because the volume on the Klipsch Fortes was turned down so low I could not really get a good idea of what they sounded like. Wouldn't they turn it up and down for attendees? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 I was tempted to yell out to the Klipsch rep,"Crank it,dude!" but I did not have much time left to hang around at the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fmalloy Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 2 hours ago, jazzer said: the volume on the Klipsch Fortes was turned down so low Of course, for a Klipsch Heritage series "turned down so low" means 90dB SPL 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmalloy Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 6 minutes ago, 314carpenter said: Wow that is a beautiful picture. Very classy looking Fortes. I wish that was *my* living room. Yeah, and I want that Forte display banner too. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 It looks like The Absolute Sound didn't see fit to mention Klipsch's presence. I didn't notice any horns in TAS's <$20K section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Richard Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Is TAS still publishing? TAS is dead to me, so... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 On 4/20/2019 at 12:56 AM, garyrc said: It looks like The Absolute Sound didn't see fit to mention Klipsch's presence. I didn't notice any horns in TAS's <$20K section. Well, that’s poor audio journalism. Did Stereophile mention Klipsch? Speaking of audio magazines, are TAS and Stereophile the top US audio mags these days? What other choices are there? Sound and Vision and some of the other home entertainment magazines seem to be more about home theatre than high performance audio, and the British magazines are oversized, overpriced, and feature lots of brands of gear that we never see or hear about over here, which makes the mag less relevant to most of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 48 minutes ago, Islander said: Well, that’s poor audio journalism. Did Stereophile mention Klipsch? Speaking of audio magazines, are TAS and Stereophile the top US audio mags these days? What other choices are there? Sound and Vision and some of the other home entertainment magazines seem to be more about home theatre than high performance audio, and the British magazines are oversized, overpriced, and feature lots of brands of gear that we never see or hear about over here, which makes the mag less relevant to most of us. === “poor” audio journalism or the business side of audio journalism? If a company, Klipsch for example, spends zero dollars for ad placement in a particular magazine they get like coverage - zero. No surprise in the industry— Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 2 hours ago, richieb said: === “poor” audio journalism or the business side of audio journalism? If a company, Klipsch for example, spends zero dollars for ad placement in a particular magazine they get like coverage - zero. No surprise in the industry— You’ve got a point there, but Stereophile put a Klipsch speaker on their front cover last month, as well as giving it a great review. Did Klipsch place a big ad in that issue? Anyway, it’s their job to report on interesting or important developments or events, regardless of whether the entity involved is an ad client of theirs. Some magazines may work that way, but to me they’d be doing a poor job. Your opinion may differ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 ^^^^^ === have no opinion and actually based my statement on the general consensus regarding audio mags and their reviews. And wouldn’t know about Stereophiles cover or stories. I would have been better served staying away from the topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 19 hours ago, Islander said: Speaking of audio magazines, are TAS and Stereophile the top US audio mags these days? What other choices are there? I terminated all my subscriptions a few years ago. I see some of their articles online, including TAS's Speakers <20K at Axpona. I know Stereophile and TAS are still out there. Is Home Theater still kicking? I miss Stereo Review and High Fidelity, and i'm still mourning the demise of Audio. Audio was the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Richard Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 On 4/22/2019 at 3:38 AM, Islander said: On 4/20/2019 at 2:56 AM, garyrc said: It looks like The Absolute Sound didn't see fit to mention Klipsch's presence. I didn't notice any horns in TAS's <$20K section. On 4/22/2019 at 3:38 AM, Islander said: Well, that’s poor audio journalism. Did Stereophile mention Klipsch? I have no idea if Robert Harley is still editor of TAS or not but he has a bias against horn loudspeakers, and the editorial direction of TAS reflects that. TAS offers only subjective evaluations of audio gear with no objective tests at all, unless they have changed since the last time I looked at a copy of their magazine 10 or 12 years ago. Stereophile is the better of the two publications IMHO, with objective test results and subjective evaluations of equipment, along with detailed explanations of testing methods for either type of evaluation. They seem less anti-horn and anti-Klipsch than TAS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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