@zardozz, I have the Cornwall IVs now and previously owned (as recently as last year) the Forte IIIs. If size is a consideration, the Forte III or, better still, the Forte IV might be worth looking at. They are fantastic loudspeakers.
What amplification and source(s) do you plan on using with them? The Forte and Cornwall are pretty revealing of your amp/source. So much so that I kept monkeying around with trying all sorts of gear because it was so interesting to hear the differences highlighted and underscored so well. That means, at least in my opinion, that pairing these Klipsch products requires care. While I was able to get both speakers (C-wall and Forte) to sound great with SS amplification, they always sounded better to my ears with tubes. Tubes opened up the bloom and soundstage, holographically to big proportions. SS could sound clean, clear and decisive, but the charm and romanticism of tubes with the two Heritage products I tried was the ticket--for me personally.
The efficiency of the Cornwall, in particular, gives me so much headroom with my choice of tube amp. I have an all tube system (tube pre, power, phono pre, and DAC). If I can just stop trying gear for the heck of it, I could stay in this land with this gear for the rest of my days on this planet. My soundstage is huge. Timbre of instruments sounds so realistic. The holographic feature of the system is intoxicating. And, what's really cool is that as I increase volume things don't just get louder; they get proportionally bigger. I'm really "seeing" the music more than ever before and I'm super happy about it.
What amplification and source(s) do you plan on using with them? The Forte and Cornwall are pretty revealing of your amp/source. So much so that I kept monkeying around with trying all sorts of gear because it was so interesting to hear the differences highlighted and underscored so well. That means, at least in my opinion, that pairing these Klipsch products requires care. While I was able to get both speakers (C-wall and Forte) to sound great with SS amplification, they always sounded better to my ears with tubes. Tubes opened up the bloom and soundstage, holographically to big proportions. SS could sound clean, clear and decisive, but the charm and romanticism of tubes with the two Heritage products I tried was the ticket--for me personally.
The efficiency of the Cornwall, in particular, gives me so much headroom with my choice of tube amp. I have an all tube system (tube pre, power, phono pre, and DAC). If I can just stop trying gear for the heck of it, I could stay in this land with this gear for the rest of my days on this planet. My soundstage is huge. Timbre of instruments sounds so realistic. The holographic feature of the system is intoxicating. And, what's really cool is that as I increase volume things don't just get louder; they get proportionally bigger. I'm really "seeing" the music more than ever before and I'm super happy about it.