Klipsch Forte IIIs vs. Heresy III with a sub

Decided to share my take on the Heresy and Sub.

https://youtu.be/IuS8JfXRJhc

Helps to listen though and it also depends on the room settings. The issue too is so many audio enthusiasts are just relying on flat audio settings.  In my opinion this whole thing about playing music flat is for the birds. That means one assumes that one setting works for every album and  that’s absurd.  When I buy records at store I’m not gonna know how well the recording really is until I play it.  Every room has a different sound and every album has a different sound.  If a person has an amplifier that has harsh characteristics, it’s just going to get transmitted through the speaker.  Tone controls help tone it down.  Some music is very warm like Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith.  On the other hand Herb Alpert albums typically sound more harsh.  With tone control I can make  adjustments to bass and treble.  I don’t think it’s practical to find amazingly well recorded albums all the time.  Some have a good bass extension and some don’t.  I’d still love to hear the Forte  side by side.

Oddly, I just had a chance to hear a pair of Forte III. Their sound characteristics were completely different than what I get from my Heresy II's. The two speakers were not directly side by side, but at no time have my Heresy sounded like the Forte III in the sense that the Forte III have a boxy kind of rough, loose, hollow sound to them. IMO, the Forte doesn't sound as tight and controlled. For example, I compared the B&W 601 S3 to the 602 S3. The 602 is a slightly bigger cabinet and slightly larger bass driver. When I played Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, the trumpet and voices clearly sounded better in the smaller 601 speaker. They sounded tighter, real and more controlled in the smaller 601 speaker. In the 602, the trumpet and voice were less coherent and less controlled. They sounded more loose. It was only while playing large classical orchestra where the larger 602 out shined the 601 overall because of the 602's larger sound stage and bass extension. I said hell with the Forte III's after that and have completely lost interest in them after hearing them last Friday. They sound nothing like my Heresy's and they don't sound as smooth and silky. I added a new 8" REL sub to my Heresy and dropped my jaw. It's like a wall of amazing sound.

Boxy in the sense that it sounded more like a hollow box speaker. I’d describe it as a box without sound deadening.