Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ?

BS…I bet that 70s amp has been good since the 70s.
The Klipsch are attractive because they are bright. They sound detailed in shop, but after a short while you have a head ache.
The room just exacerbates it.

Get rid of them while you can.

Wow thanks everyone!! Out of 20 comments it looks like the large amount of glass needs curtains, that is inexpensive & easy, I'll do that & the dynamat first, if It's still too bright a tube amp / new pair of speakers will be in the distant future as I have other expensive hobbies like having a mortgage in California, thanks again everyone!

It is not solely the glass, and unlikely to the be the amp.
I would go to a pawn shop, and try any speaker that they have, or borrow a friend’s…
Then report back with findings. 

Also, how would you quantify which fix worked? First fix room, then speaker/rack location, then electronics.

If the room needs to be done anyhow then doing it 1st makes sense.

But if the speakers are new, then I would return them quickly.

While speaker placement is important, the speakers are also important.
And your list above does not even mention that the speakers might be a contributor..

The good part is that that list is also a long ways towards having a decent start at an Ishikawa diagram. And they are all valid causal mechanisms that can result in the observed problem.

@vegasears, why are the Spica not cutting ?
how does the Klipsch and them compare?

There are no signature blocks on this forum?

If there was, it would say…

People describe me, as well as my speaker choice… as, “Not too bright.”

Someone in the area could have another amplifier or another set of speakers.


Then if the pioneer was fine on other speakers that points to it “having been” ok. (Sure it could have changed)


If the Pioneer was on those speakers in another room and “all was well” then we know the mechanism that is at play here.

There is a thing called REW that the OP could download onto an iPhone/ipad, and that would give us some measured. info.

The idea of moving the speakers back to tyhe walll was mentioned earlier. I would also try moving them further into the room so one gets a more near field direct sound, and that would diminish the relative level of the reflected sound, and diminish the room brightness.
And like @wilderness eloquent post (a few posts ^above^) mentioned ... “It is free”.

Maybe leave out foam from Beth woofers?

Do you have an REW sweep of the room?

p.s. thanks holmz, they do sound better w/o foam under them.

Ahhh “under”.

I am thinking you meant open cell foam inside of the cabinet!