SPEAKERS THAT SOUND ALIVE & DYNAMIC AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS

You have a good front end that deserved more than these Klipsches. These Klipsches never sounded good at low volume or high volume..very deficient. If you can afford and have the space for a Klipsch Jubilee model, it got rescued by Celestion as well as an active solution and started to sound pretty good.

But, if you only have a Forte level budget, try something like this instead, something different, outside of the group think mantra. There are some technical reasons for a horn array like this to meet your low spl detail requirements (or high spl requirements if you decided to party it up someday), but, you could request color of choice for horns and cabinet or whatever, for better WAF.

If it didn’t work, you could return it in 60 days.

Finally I was thinking of Klipsch Forte 4 & Cornwall 4, and Frigg 2 by O Audio, as

reviews of all three say they all sound great at low volumes. I know many say Klipsch is not high end or very revealing, but is there anybody out there that owns or has heard any of the above. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I enjoy this hobby and the great music it brings to the table. I don’t want to stop listening and just seeking to find a solution that would allow me to continue musical enjoyment.

@carlsbad2 I have not heard the horn array model, specifically, but, a guy nearby who bought my DIs some years ago has a newer & ’smaller’ model as well now... with a single 15" and the array, (that’s it, no mid bass drivers). It had all kinds of detail (wow kinda detail), low end for days, very coherent and sounded like my TAD bred with some horn a bit (sonics-wise). But, that model is 94 db or so sensitive, probably to accommodate the bass extension. By detail, i don’t mean the tilted up/FR gimmick done by most manufacturers to make a dude believe his speaker is detailed...this had something i would attribute to the array, small driver impulse response perk in a FR range where such a driver never typically operates in.

I think the 103db dual 15 horn array model has the right ingredients for someone like the OP, but, as you may suspect, i think he tweaks/refines his models over time based on feedback..., a polycell model sold to somebody 5 years ago may have well received some additional tweaking since then..I recently picked up a pair of used moabs from a dude, one of the earlier serial base model, in the midst of painting it, etc. I am sure newer Moabs have gotten tweaked since then.

@deep_333 I have long been intrigued by that speaker pictrued but have never heard it. At 103 dB/watt is should excell at low volumes. I do worry that it doesn’t have the mid bass driver that this manufacturer usually uses. However, the designer prides himself on a flat frequency response so I’m sure he has it figured out. I do have a lot of experience with this brand (although not in my system right now) and the low mass midrange array is one of the best upper midrange performers I’ve ever heard and it does sound great at low levels.

Jerry