Have any of you heard the Klipsch Forte speakers?

Made back in the mid 80's. 3 way speakers; horn midrange; 12 inch woofer; VERY efficient - a low powered 50w/ch amp will grive them hard;

Would not suggest them for a very large room though - unless u are getting more than one pair to fill the room.

I have heard them and they have that great klipsch midrange. they will sounds beautiful with a flea powered SET amp..

Fortes should make good rock speakers because their high sensitivity will turn a small amplifier signal into big, loud music with fast, unclipped transients, which make drums, cymbals and the pick on a guitar jump out more like real life.

The main limitations of the original 3-way horn-based Klipsch's are that the individual drivers are anything but time-aligned (which is more important to orchestral and acoustic music), and you have to be within the horns' dispersion angle to hear things right. When you get outside that sweet zone they can sound like being sideways to a megaphone. Their bass also doesn't extend down as far as something like a Totem, but the Forte is good and strong down to the 40s which is fine for rock.

The Fortes go down to 32 Hz. I just listed a pair on Ebay. I loved my Fortes and thought I would never sell them. Don't meet the WAF though. IMO the Forte was the last great speaker Klipsch made and I've owned several sets of Klispch both before and after the Forte. If you're ok with the horn sound the Fortes will do you fine.

too bad you can't ship em to canada :)
NC is too far a drive from Toronto! Oh well, once in a while a pair comes up for sale here...what i find interesting abot the forte model is the price range they seem to go for...I have seen them as low as 450, and as high as 1K, for similar condition...and Johnnyb53 is right - they do rock quite well!