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Taken from the "News Center/Corporate Overview" section on the Klipsch Home Page: "Additionally, Klipsch is the official loudspeaker of the Hard Rock Cafe. Klipsch and Hard Rock Cafe International enjoy a mutually beneficial strategic alliance that places Klipsch loudspeakers in Hard Rock Cafe restaurants and retail locations; Hard Rock Hotel and Casino high roller suites and Hard Rock live performance stages and other venues around the world."

One more vote for the SXRD

I just took a CEDIA class and they had a "Home Theater Expert" there to give a lecture. Two of the things that he said were: It is bad to mount a surround speaker too close to the ceiling and it is bad to point a surround speaker towards the listening position. He said the surround speakers (in a 5.1) should be at least 2 feet abover your head a to the sides of the listener, but at least 2 feet away from the ceiling. Also, pointing the speaker towards the listener does not allow the sound to create as much of a "surround" effect.

Already tried that with no luck.

A co-worker of mine got a Sub-12 and Synergy Series Quintet III for an anniversary present, but his room is wired for 7.1. I gave the Klipsch parts department a call asking on a price for 2 more sats, but they told me that you cannot buy them separately. Is he out of luck or is there another way to get these speakers?

$1,150 for a pair of Khorns....sounds like a deal to me!

Nice work! A co-worker just spent $1300 on a Bose 3-2-1, but I didn't have the heart to tell her what she could have really had (i.e. Klipsch) with that kind of money. I, however, believe that if they think it sounds good, then it's fine. If they start telling you that their system is BETTER than yours, then I'd have a problem

Anybody have any good stories about finding great deals on Klipsch (Khorns, CW, Hersey...etc) at a garage sale? There have got to be some people out there that get the speakers as a hand-me-down and sell them for something stupid like $100 becuase they have no idea how nice the speakers are. I always take a quick look when driving by a garage sale to see if there are any hidden gem speakers. Somebody on here must have a great story on a deal they got, lets hear 'em!!!

Ditto. War of the Worlds definitely has a special "look" to it to help create the mood.

I bet that is pretty accurate. All of my friends think that I am crazy for driving an hour to go to a theater that has bigger screens and a good sound system (Klipsch, of course!) I'd rather wait for a movie to come out DVD than watch at one of the local theaters. My living room sounds at least twice as good!!!

I agree completely, and have mentioned this very same thing to some of my friends. My conversation goes something like "Some people on the forum have these killer home theater speakers, but are still watching a 28" TV". So, I do agree that an upgrade will make a huge difference. I am slightly biased though, since I am 99% movies, 1% music.

Fish, Are you talking about Lafayette, IN?

Thanks Scooter, I've never tried to search for "macroblocking". While I don't have Comcast, I use the same box that Comcast does (Motorola DCT-6412). I spent a while over at AVS yesterday, but I'll try again. Thanks for the tip!

You are referring to LCD's, but that problem has been solved for the most part with recent LCD technology. I know that my TV is capable, becuase when I watched the Colts vs. Steelers game this year, the picture was completely flawless, which lead me to believe that the cable company was sending a signal with little or no compression.

I get this exact same thing with my Motorola cable box, but it only occurs on certain channels some of the time. For example, during the NFL season, I was flipping back and forth between two games and it was happening on one channel, and not the other. My opinion, and it is only an opinion, is that the cable company compresses some of the channels to save on space or bandwith(?) and that's why the pixelation is happening during fast-moving scenes. Maybe DirectTV does the same thing. Anyone else care to jump in?!?! I have been wondering about this for a while.