DavidF
Active Member
Why didn't they make a Chorus 3 instead of Cornwall 3?
The Cornwall was an one of the five models that spanned many years in Klipsch lineup. It has a legacy behind it that the Chorus does not. The retail price seems high to me suggesting that Klipsch is not looking for high production numbers to offset costs. I would also expect that the CWIII are batch-built according to backlogs of orders so that production fills the demand rather than risk holding inventory in the distribution channel. Using drivers common among products and production jigs on hand makes sense.
I don't think that the CWIII is a cobbled-together product by any means. The woofer in the large, wide, reflex baffle is a well proven design. There is some benefit in using such a wide baffle. The Chorus was in response to marketing pressures to move away from large footprint enclosures and had to deal with response diffraction. I don't see the use of the 701 horn as a backward step given the total redesign of the CW crossover in the III model.
The Forte was not part of that original 5-model line up but fit into a niche within the models. A reissue of the Chorus does not make sense from that perspective since it would tend to crowd out the Forte III.