Please see my info post in "New Klipsch Forte IV" (almost the last post). It explains a serious design flaw in the Forte 4. After fix, it sounds like a different speaker (and quite wonderful).
As for bass, I put my subwoofer directly in back of the left speaker and it is exciting the 15-inch passive of the Forte! Pretty good bass!
As for the La Scalla II, I thought this speaker had the best midrange I've ever heard in my home. The bass performs quite well in lower registers but mid-bass was very polite. The tweeter (phenolic) was not up to the task and overloads quite easily.