Have you noticed that just about everything Klipsch has touched in the last 10~20 years they've turned to cr*p?
They've got this huge fan base left over and have convinced many of the kids that "the slam" and metallic drivers are it. I have to say the saddest thing they've recently done is slowly started eliminating the Heritage line. They're down to three speakers now - the khorns, LaScala, and Heresy. The last good speakers they made were in the 80s. I know - I bought a number of their, what do they call them now? - reference line speakers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. It was a hard habit to shake. I held on to my Fortes and moved on some years ago. I have promedia's on one of my computers and they sound ok for computer speakers but the left one periodically goes out and is at a slightly lower volume than the right. Let me take an educated guess... they weren't made in Hope, AK.