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Two Nice Small Tweaks to Klipsch Forte III Loudspeakers

I made two small tweaks to my Forte IIIs. 

First, I bought Auralex Subdude Isolation Platforms to sit underneath them.  This raises them up ~2 inches and isolates them from a suspended wood floor below. 

Second, I applied Dynamat to the midrange horn body.  Knocking on the horn (once reinstalled) results in less ringing and noise now.  

The improvements are more on the subtle end of the spectrum but surely noticeable.  I thought I'd pass this along because for <$200 these tweaks are non-permanent and seem to provide as much if not more benefit than playing with cables. 
jbhiller

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I wonder if raising the speakers is a good thing as it starts to impede into one of Paul W. Klipsch’s "8 Cardinal Points of Reproduction":

Number 5: Freedom from cavities. The space under a speaker box formed by mounting it on legs can destroy the bottom octave of response and deteriorate the next 2 octaves.

While an isolation platform is likely not nearly as seemingly harmful as legs against the engineering premise of these speakers, it certainly gives me pause as to whether there are benefits. I guess ultimately if you feel the sound is better then it worked for you.

I have a pair of Forte III’s in my second system which sits on vinyl flooring atop a concrete basement floor. I’m a bit leery of placing underneath them.
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