Klipsch speaker choices

" BTW, the Heresy IVs will be incredible, imo.........but, if you have the room, and budget, the CW IV will be the finest, of all that were mentioned. "  Best by far unless you move up to (guessing at this) KHorns which we did not hear or Jubilees which we did hear..
I had a chance to listen to the Cornwall IV and the new Forte and Heresy this past weekend at the Klipsch factory sound room and the Heresy is now rear ported and much better sounding. The Forte shows improvement also but the real shocker was the Cornwall IV. I have never been a fan of Cornwalls but this new one is a giant leap forward and the boomy big box sound the old ones had to me is gone. Great presence and very musical. You can save a bunch of money if you are patient and get a set of Chorus speakers which are also great and my favorite Heritage speaker until i heard the new Cornwall. The Chorus will need to be recapped and an upgrade to a MAHL tweeter also makes a big difference.

If you can’t or don’t want to work on used speakers the Cornwall is MUCH better than the Forte and Heresy now.
There was also a set of new Jubilees there and while they are much bigger and not pretty they were in another league way above the other three. The Jubes and Cornwalls for most people won’t require subs and probably the same is true for the Forte. As you can tell by my comments though the Forte impressed me the least of the four sets we heard. I am kind of leaning towards the new Heresy + sub and if you go that route perhaps good used would work. I don’t know your budget.
We also heard the recent production Heresy and Forte and Cornwalls and all the new ones have improved though the Forte improved the least.
Finally for my taste if you have the room bigger is better and the Klipsch cinema speakers for 200 seat venues and up are spectacular and you have a chance to hear those do so. Those big speakers sound better at volumes so low you can barely hear them to ear splitting.

" Did you know there is a Klipsch forum where good deals are posted?
Those guys don't know other brands exist. You can tag along on the
annual pilgrimage to Arkansas to pay your respects. Those folks eat, live, breathe and expel Klipsch products and tweaks. "
 Sure is and the garage sale section and the alerts section have goodies at times. Local searches on Craigslist and Letgo and Facebook Market place also have items for sale often
  We do know other brands exist and many of us have gone through a ton of them and we keep coming back to Klipsch. After a while we don't bother trying to fool with other gear because it has been disappointing too many times. You are also not going to find $45,000 speaker cable nonsense there either which is nice. Lots of hands on serious audiophiles there who can take you deeper into the science of good sound reproduction no talk about things like cable cookers and other equally silly junk unless it is ridicule. DIY forum can also help out on those legacy repair and parts problems.

  The community is one of the great things about Klipsch and you can get advice and parts to repair speakers 50 and 60 years old and some models are still in production after that much time. The only other company that comes close to supporting legacy speakers is Great Plains Audio which still produces parts for Altec speakers. The Altec JBL forum is the second biggest biggest speaker forum I know of.

" If you have the space, forget Klipsch and try the Spatial Audio M5 Sapphire. Even their predecessors, the M4 Turbos, were far more refined than any Klipsch speaker I've heard. If you want Klipsch dynamics without sacrificing refinement, that's the route to go. This is coming from a Heresy III owner. "
  Every once in a while you get to read something so preposterous that you can't help but respond and this quoted comment is one of those. An ahem, "owner" of the bottom entry level Heritage Klipsch speaker says blah blah better than any Klipsch speaker he has heard. One might wonder what he has actually heard that would allow him to make this statement.

" LMAO! Uh, no apparently you haven’t, or your auditory memory failed you miserably in those assessments. Compare a Stirling Broadcast LS3/6, Maggie 0.7, KEF LS50, Vandy 1Ci, or Spatial M4 Turbo S (list goes on) back-to-back with H-IIIs and you’ll realize how colored the Heresy midrange really is. While I agree with Mr. Decibel that there are resonance problems with the horns and cabinets, adding constrained-layer bituminous pads (Dynamat) does little to remedy it IME. I thought I detected some improvement at first (the all too common placebo effect), but careful A/B comparisons with my other speakers revealed that any improvement was minute. The midrange is still polluted with resonances.

I’ll agree with you that Heresy IIIs manage to create that "live" sensation quite well, but I think that’s only because most live performances are amplified through horn-loaded PA speakers.

The ironic thing here is I have no horse in this race. Like you, I enjoy H-IIIs, but unlike you, I don’t consider them end-game speakers, nor do I consider them a great value at MSRP, especially after their recent price hike. If anything, I should be extolling the virtues of H-IIIs in hopes of getting a good price when I eventually sell my pair. But alas, in the interest of the greater good of the hobby, I prefer honesty in sharing my assessments. Again, I never said the H-III is a bad speaker. I consider them great speakers in the context of what they do well, and the price they can be bought for secondhand. "
   Well in further reading I guess what we have here is someone bored and looking to stir the pot.I just love buzz word salad tossed together and served with tender chunks of baloney then presented as authoritative opinion.

I have heard the new Cornwall and it is the first version I have liked. The boomy box sound on the first three versions is gone and lined up in Hope for us to hear were the latest Heresy, Forte, Cornwall and La Scala. Of the four the La Scala showed the least improvement and the Cornwall the most. Until now my favorite Heritage type speaker were the Chorus speakers but no more. Now value for money spent I would any day seek out an old Chorus and recap the crossovers and stick a set of MAHL V2 tweeters in there and have awesome sound for much less than new Cornwalls. If the 6G was not a problem and I was not handy with speaker work you cant go wrong with the new Cornwall.

  Let me rephrase the I have liked comment. The new Cornwalls were jaw dropping better than any of the others and an amazing step up.
  One thing not mentioned much is the pro Klipsch gear out there. The KP-301 IF you can find any are the pro versions of the Chorus speakers and these respond really well to recaps and tweeter upgrades plus the crossover is different and these are 200 watt rated where the Chorus are 100 watt rated and both have the same 101db efficiency. If you get really lucky and have the space and WAF does not matter there are KPT-456's out there sometimes and KPT-904's. These often sell for $1,500 or there about and you will have entered a whole new world of audio quality.