bryan0101 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) I just purchased a pair of new Forte IV online from one of the reseller, and notice that 1 of them is producing hoarse static distortion noise around certain frequency (playing piano pieces). Contacted the seller, and waiting for the reply. But very disappointing that a brand new pair has this issue from klipsch, QC should have caught it. Edited December 30, 2022 by bryan0101 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckears Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 The brand new pair of original-series Fortes I unboxed myself back in 1988 had a midrange blown - I could tell from vocals, mainly female, which provided a bit of a static rattle, if my acoustic memory serves. I loaded it up and took it back to the showroom, where they swapped out the mid horn with one in a model they knew worked just fine. It's still running sweet, some 34 years later. Hopefully, you can be back up and running with it soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 A lot of piano music sounds terrible on any speaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebuy Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 28 minutes ago, wuzzzer said: A lot of piano music sounds terrible on any speaker. Not on my system, it sounds Marvelous. 😃 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckears Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 12 hours ago, rebuy said: Not on my system, it sounds Marvelous. 😃 Same with mine… Chorus IIs powered by plenty of dynamic headroom make the larger instruments sound incredible :-). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amped Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Have you tried switching L to R and R to L channels to make sure it’s the speaker and not something else? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryan0101 Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 It was the K702, the diaphragm was defective. The reseller sent me another and its now singing beautifully. I can see the Forte staying for very long time..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 There you go... cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 2 hours ago, bryan0101 said: It was the K702, the diaphragm was defective. The reseller sent me another and its now singing beautifully. I can see the Forte staying for very long time..... Did they send you a new driver , or just the diaphragm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryan0101 Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 They sent me the whole new driver. I believe only klipsch or the oem factory can redo the diaphragm. I tested with all the genres from spotify I can think of, and it's good now. And yes, forte iv sounding life-like and awesome. I'm using it as main instead of my usual sopra to break-in as well as hooking up my dual rythmik F12Gs to it for the 20-50 region. Would love to find the schematic for the crossover and see if they can be upgraded in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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