klipsh forte III purchase


contaplating purchase
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The new Forte III does sound amazingly good, and from what I've seen the Heritage line does have all the "current tech" they need. Take one apart and look inside (I did with my Heresy IIIs, as well as with everything else I buy...curious, just curious) and you'll find a clean design, with biwiring posts, premium internal wire and parts, and a bulletproof, well executed build all around. I chose the Heresy because I have a couple of REL subs so I don't need the size (large...they're large) of a Forte, and note I bought my Heresy IIIs (Capitol Edition...whatever that means) for about 1500 bucks and the Fortes are substantially more costly. Worth it though...most modern audio geeks don't care about Klipsch (I didn't really...I was way to hip for them) but a need for efficiency caused me to audition them...man was I wrong, as they're an absolute bargain relative to other stuff around the marketplace as they sound tremendous and are clearly built to last.
I biwire my Heresy IIIs mostly because I recently (just before buying them) bought a set of AQ Rocket wires for the previous speakers after running into Bill Low at a shop. I suppose I should put my non biwire cable back on just to see what's what...but the sound is too good to bother. Note to Forte fans...don't read the recent review in "HiFi News"...not sure what THAT dude was hearing. Strange.