jacksonbart

good reading. thank you

Sorry not familiar with Pioneer Elite VSX-53tx, does it let you set the crossovers for the LFE and whether to direct bass to both the L/R mains or just the LFE? Perhaps just use the LFE (RSW15 - great sub) Could help if you can to set it higher, like 80hz if you can. IMO you have brought some very nice speakers after a little equipment tweeking they are going to sound awesome.

I purchased a Samsung HL-P5063W, last July at Best Buy. I really like the picture with DVDs and HD broadcasts, use Comcast. I noticed starting last month that sometimes when I turned on it on it was taking much longer and cycling before coming on, not every time and I remember the last one because it was before the Super bowl. I now I would say I have averaged about 4 hours a week on it. Yesterday it cycled and ended up with all 3 lights blinking on the power button, which I read as lamp failure for the first time. Well after unplugging it and waiting a minute I turned it back on and bingo it up right away. The picture is normal, not loosing brightness at all when its on, its seems that just turning it on has become an issue. Just tried it two seconds ago and bingo it turned on with out an issue. Just wondering if any one has had a similar experience. My luck I will go back to them and it will work perfectly. Any advice?

I brought Junior Wells 'Come On In This House' last week and it really is great, highly recommend it. I have listened at least 5 times already. Its only my 4th Telarc CD and its a great performance and recording. Its mixed in DTS and they did a really nice job. I prefer a natural sound stage, as opposed to putting a guitar player behind the sweet spot; youre seated in the front row. You have got to hear Derek Trucks on slide guitar on the track 'Gonna Move to Kansas City'. I would highly recommend it. Anyone else hear or have any recommendations would love to know.

I have been very happy with my RSW15 for 10+ months now, knock on wood. Really compliments the RF7s and its by far the best sounding/feeling sub I have owned and I am very happy with it, I hope that remains true. To be honest I don't have as much experiance with all varied equipment as other forum members, if I like somthing I tend to stick with it for a long time. It took me 10 years to swap every thing piece out this past time. I have gone through a few more subs than say my last pair of main speakers and I think its pretty common. Not that subs should fall apart, amps die, etc per other horror stories you hear, I just think they over the long run take the brunt of the wear and tear. Its one reason I shy away from buying subs used and I would not think they would hold thier value as well as main speakers because if it. If you enjoy it I say stick with it. Good luck either way

Toddvj You are correct, my typo I fixed above, Wal-mart uese WMA, not WAV.

RayoVac Is that a plasma?

"You have to physically be in the store to purchase them if I am not mistaken. If you call the dealer and they have what you are looking for in stock to my knowledge they CANNOT ship the product to you because Klipsch would consider that trans-shipping and the dealer would run the risk of having Klipsch pull the plug on them or at a minimum they would get a slap on the hand and be cut off from product for awhile." That is bummer cause the price of the speakers cover the first part of the shipment, but know unless you own an large cargo van, the store usually charges you to bring the speakers out and 'set them up in your room'. I don't know about every one else I don't own a cargo van and I don't want anybody setting up new speakers I just brought, much less charging me. I don't like my wife touching them so why would I trust some dude I don't know who does this deliver/stereo thing as a side gig. Sorry my experiances may be my own, but there are some questional people selling this stuff getting paid by the hour sometimes billing the client by the hour and now comming into your house. Anybody know good dealers in Eastern PA, west of Philly?

Thanks for the replys. Anyone has two RSW-15s stacked on top of each other?

"m00n, I've always taken the cover to be a rendering of the surface of a brain" Funny I always thought it was the large intestines.

Which Mag uses those dials (value, performance, etc)at the end of every review? The go from 0 to 100. I have never seen one dial below 87. The average score has to be around 93. How can any body go wrong? One point must be like night and day to the rest of us. Go figure. I am too cheap to subscribe to any of them so only read em when I have extra time at Barnes and Noble. Putting that saved money in my IRA, should able to retire when I am 93.

Will share my experience, I usually use Wal-Mart for $.88 a song. I am using Music Match to maintain by song database on my PC. I also have recorded most of my CDs to MP3s for use with an Archios 20 gb player. I don't do the illegal download/swap thing. For downloads from Wal-Mart they are all in WMA format, so they can maintain a license. I think they limit you to how many times you can write it to a CD. To get by this simply record it to a CD (I usually wait until I can put a group together in a nice mix) and record the CD back to MP3s on your hard drive, obviously not a current option for you. The default recording quality from Wal-Mart is 160kps for the WAV. The best I can due with Music Match is 320 kbps using my CDs, which I have loaded most of them to my PC and MP3 player. In terms of back up, maintaining about 5600+ songs is a little over 17 gigs on my hard drive and my MP3 player. Hopefully I dont loose both at once.

Here is a pic of mine. Caution its a large pic so you can see the grain/color. Seems lighter then many in the demo pics.

Such a general opinion is really worthless with out some backround information/real personal experiance attached for viewers to understand/relate to your thread/opinion. You attach an experiance on one product so you group it with all others except the Heritage products as being "mid fi". Hard to understand how you came to that conclusion or what that means, but I have better things to do. Never the less its your opinion and your entitled to it. Enjoy your music.

Hi Amy Thanks for your reply. Its a tough situation for all. My first experience with Klipsch from a frat brother in college and I never forgot how they sound, but while I was in College (at U of R, Rochester NY) I could not afford them. When I finally was looking to upgrade some 9 years later how could I forget them? I went to a few places of authorized dealers and they did not have Klipsch or the specific Klipsch product in stock for personal listening. Specifically Tweeter at the time had Klipsch, which I guess they dont have any more and they are not so good in KOP. I believe they brought Stereo City, who I used to deal with in Rochester NY. It is tough not to contemplate cheating and using the Internet. I dont mind driving a distence but if driving means I am going to a place that ignores you and does not have the product in stock or let you really listen to them, I kind of feel like to heck with them. I think how would their service be if I had an issue? Perhaps I am incorrect, they just need to see the money when I pay for them, but I know that it not true from my experience. Again its a tough spot because a brick and mortar place has limitations, in who it can reach them and thier cost of stocking a product on site, especially when they need carry many brands. For most of those brick and mortar sellers to carry the extra in house demo stock of higher end/less often sold products is clearly too costly, nor is the staff educated in them. I can understand this its all about cost, if the lower cost product makes up 80% of your revenue, why would you focus or spend any time on the top 20%. You dont want internet companies selling your products at any level below retail of your brick and mortar places, who have higher costs and hurts thier sales there by further eroding their desire to stock your products. As you state there is also the possibly that the Internet sites could commit fraud in modifying your product and selling as a true Klipsch. Its a conundrum. That said you have an excellent product IMO.

You can also try www.dts.com for a rather limited, but great sounding list ( of the ones I have heard)of multi track digital audio. Have you listened to the Dark Side of the Moon SACD?

I agree it would be better, my experiance with Tweeter was not too good. Out of curiosity what internet dealer did you use? Thanks

scotto527 I agree its a very good album. While I am a Dire Strait fan, would agree not crazy about Money for nothing, Skate Away is much better. His voice has gotten rougher, but it still works and I like his understated guitar playing on his single stuff. I saw him at the Tower in Philly for his 'Sailing to Philadelphia' ablum tour, he was great. Like a lot of older players, he surrounds himself with very talented younger players. Would reccomend it as well. Ragpicker's Dream was a little weak though.

Hi Tom Smokey and The Bandit?... uhh. Don't get me wrong I liked it when it first came out, not sure what year but I was young and I thought the Transam was cool. My Mom liked the Rockford files and I liked that one too. Not sure its the 10 best, but AMC was showing like every Saturday for a few months, thinks it must be better with out Gleason being dubbed over. The movie is a little better than 'Every Which Way But Loose'. At least no one has mentioned Cannon Ball Run.

kenratboy Your experience sounds familiar with mine more than a few years back with Jurassic Park. At the time it was through a LD Pioneer player(before DVD were popular), I had to reduce the digital level, as I thought the Boston Acoustics (T830s for the front, with a 10 inch 250 watt sub) were going to blow and at certain points you could hear clipping at the high end, it was my college roommates lower powered Yamaha receiver. I am not against separates, but I have never had that issue with the 5803 and RF7s, RC7, RS7s, RSW15 and SB1s. With the RWS15 sub doing its own work the 5803 can dedicate itself for frequencies above 80hz, which does make it even more powerful and the DAC are awesome.

Hi electricontr Its a tough spot, you could try getting accoustic fabric blinds fixed above your window that would be hidden behind a wife approved window treatment. When you want to listen to music you could lower the blinds. Assume your usualy alone w/music otherwise your wife would understand, I was in the same boat, blinds also help movies for light. Bookselves might fit and perhap pick out as much fabric furniture (hopefully sound absorbing) as you can. Supposedly there is acoustic paint but I have no experiance with it. If you have a basement (hopefully finished) buy a second system for the room upstairs and move the good stuff down there. My orginal H/T was in the family room, but once I got the RF7s, I was told they could not stay there long, so $$$$$ later I have my room in the basement and she still does not know how to turn on/work anything, but I love her anyway. Go Figure.

Is stacking two subwoofers the proper way to place two subs in a room? I have never done it and always wondered placement of more than one should work, never thought about doing stacking until spending time on this site. (BTW Thank you, this site is much more educational than spending time at Barnes and Noble reading the typical Audio Mags, too cheap to buy in most cases.) I know two of the same subs would increase the volume by 3 decibels and can smooth out the response in the room. Please correct me if I am wrong. Basically I would have thought, based on no scientific knowledge to place the second one in the opposite corner, for corner placement or one the side of the front wall for subs placed along the front wall. At least that is were I would start moving it around until I thought it sounded best. Mine currently is along the front wall, right corner. Found that works best for me, just wondering where to start for adding a second sub?

I would agree that the picture quality of the theaters near me beat DVD hands down, and its a much larger screen. When the "Hi Def" DVD technology finally comes out in wide release is when I would be willing to go with front projection system. I believe that DTS and SDDS tracks (for SDDS only available from the studios owned by Sony) are on selected films only. Basically when the producers paid for the extra sound production work, which is why I think most DTS soundtracks sound better then DD. DD or D pro logic is actually stored on the film itself so its always the back up for theaters that don't support the other technologies. I believe with DTS, its actually a seperate CD like disc that provides the sound that is synced up to the projector, this from my days of reading Wide Screen review so I could be wrong. Not sure how the SDDS track is stored would assume the same way. Check out www.DTS.com to see the commercial equipment. They also have the catalog of DTS music only CDs.

I can't believe I forgot about Bad Santa. That movie is definitely not for everyone. I was crying at various points, I just could not believe it, it is Billy Bob Thorntons best film. Of course while I was crying my wife giggled some times but cried too but for a different reason. (She felt bad for the pudgy kid). The outtakes with John Ritter are worth it alone. Galaxy Quest (for Sci Fi folks) Being There (Peter Seller fans) Death to Smoochie (for the Caption Kangaroo Fans) The Big Lebowski (for Karl Hungus fans) if you like Fargo, see this.

Have you seen the movie 'The Party'? If you like Peter Sellers, you will love it. I would highly recommend it, its very 60s. The first 2/3rds of the movie are very funny, the last third is a bit week, but over all its very good, the whole movie has a very strange time/feel to it, Sellers is awesome, equal to or better than he was in the Pink Panther movies. Not very PC, don't think they could get away with it today. Planes Train and Automobiles is a classic, Doobie's Cab and "People train runs out of Stubbsville." The In-Laws and The Graduate are great. See a few I have not seen, will definatly will rent them. Always on the look out for more good movies to see. Thank you