Vandersteen 3A Sigs vs Klipsch Forte III

@tomic601 

I get that Vandys have a trim pot. As I mentioned, when my pair was set to flat or "0db," they were brighter than my Heresys. This was quite surprising, because I had always read that Vandys are warm and Klipsch is bright. 

Thanks tomic601,
I will try to contact you, maybe a few months? Would look forward to hearing one of your systems. Love Vandersteen. My 2Wq sub just took my Treo Ct's to a whole new level. Hope I didn't sound too forward about coming to your place in SD. I should realize not everyone welcomes strangers into their homes. Looking forward to meeting you sometime.
Cheers!
Tim

no worries Tim, please do get in touch !!! pretty sure subs or quattro would get me evicted......

As helomech mentions, most opinions of fortes in this thread are of the I and II version. Most have not heard the current iteration.

I bought a pair of Forte IIIs a few weeks ago and I absolutely love them. They do intimate and simple music well, right along with hard rock and metal. And there's nothing like listening to jazz on a well sorted out system with horns and tubes.

Vandys have always been, meh, ok to me. Horns give you musicians in the room.


Oz

Ozzy62, good info. Glad u like the Forte III's. I just can't buy without listening to both sets of speakers. Tomic601 has a solution to just buy both, do the A/B, then sell a set. What a long way around though. Sure miss the days of an Audio store everywhere you turned. 
The Forte's are new and therefore are the latest technology for that speaker. The Vandy's are 10 or 15 years old and won't have Vandersteen's most recent upgrades. I have read that he tweaks without changing the name of the speaker. Are any of those changes significant, like a woven composte midrange cone?