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The Marantz will still only be putting out 50wpc. Its physically impossible to increase how many watts the Marantz will put out without going inside the receiver and replacing pretty much everything related to the amplifier section of it. I guess technically depending on how you wire up the four Fortes you could give the receiver a lower ohm load which will usually result in the receiver outputting more watts, but that's only if it was designed to handle a lower than 8 ohm load. Are you trying to hook up the Fortes in a surround-sound setting or are you trying to have more of a quad stereo arrangement?

No, that's not what the separate inputs are for. They are for bi-amping/bi-wiring. If you want to use them by themselves for music just run your receiver in stereo mode.

I once told a former co-worker that home theater was one of my hobbies/interests and she said "Oh, do you have a Bose system then?" [:@]

Amen! [Y]

Make sure Audyssey didn't set any of your speakers to Large or Full Band. If it did, change it from Full Band or Large to an 80Hz crossover across the board for all of your speakers. See if that makes an improvement.

It took me about 15 minutes on my first Forte II and about 5 on the second to replace the diaphragms. I'm not sure about the Cornwall but the opening to remove the horn through the front motorboard is very small on the Forte and I bent one of the connectors trying to put the first one back in. Once I figured out the right angle it had to go back in at everything went fine. Bob's steps on his website are excellent for a DIY install. If you happen to live close by I'd be happy to lend a hand.

Try and find the scene/exact time when you hear it. I have the disc from NetFlix and will keep an ear out for what your're describing. Do you have any kind of automatic setup on your receiver? If you have the speakers at +1 for their level outputs that's probably way too high. A receiver's level output controls are there to balance out each speaker in your setup, not to raise the overall volume output that your receiver will give them. Klipsch are super efficient and they don't need any artificial boost in output by your receiver. If your receiver doesn't have an automatic setup to balance speaker outputs, try and reducing each level to -2 or so, definitely below 0. You'll have to turn the volume up to achieve the same SPL levels but it just might help eliminate the disrtortion you're hearing If your receiver does have an automatic speaker level setup, run that and let it balance the speakers. My receiver has Audyssey and I rely on it for speaker distance and level matching but I don't use its EQ settings, I run everything flat also. Also, set your front speakers to small. You don't want to run them as full range, as they really never were intended to unless you don't have a subwoofer.

They are designed as a Wide Dispersion speaker for surround duty exclusively. You could use them as main speakers but I don't think you'll like them as such.

Welcome to the forums and congratulations on your new Klipsch! If you're debating between B-2s and S-2s for surrounds, it depends on what you listen to most. If you're mainly into movies the S-2s would get my vote, if you listen to a lot of music and watch a lot of music concerts I'd go with the B-2s. Technically the C-2 would be the match to your other speakers but the C-3 would be excellent and would allow you to upgrade to the 3 series for your other speakers if you ever chose to. Receivers are set up to level match your speakers to they all have equal volume outputs so don't worry about the C-3 overpowering your other speakers.

Nice job Mike! I'm thinking a 7.1 setup, Chorus II fronts, Quartet side surrounds and Chorus I rears would be fun. []

If you do a forum search you'll find several threads discussing gluing the KLF series cabinets. Unfortunately its a common problem with them.

Any thoughts? []

John, There's obviously going to be a difference between a standard resolution signal and an HD signal. A TV or any upscaling device for that matter can only work with what signal its given. A 480p signal upconverted to 1080p will never look like a true 1080p signal. Lots of people get caught up in the upconverting game and think that they are viewing a true HD picture when in fact it is not even close to HD. The TV is still outputting 1920 by 1080 lines of resolution.

Shoot. Hopefully you get everthing squared away. I had problems with RF-7s, a Harman/Kardon 730 receiver and a Rotel RB-980BX amp that were bought used. Fortunately all ended up being easy fixes but it is disheartening to buy some new gear only to have it not working correctly.

According to NetFlix I'll be getting the disc Tuesday. I saw the movie in the theater and I have to admit that I did not like it nearly as much as the first Transformers. I don't know if I just wasn't in the right mood to watch it or what. The animation of the robots seemed worse than the first movie and the storyline was very weak. The theater didn't have the volume turned up very much, either. I'll report back after watching it on Blu-Ray. At least I can turn up the volume as loud as I want at home!

As long as it says Klipsch its all good. []

Any thoughts about the RSW-15 versus the CS-Ultra I currently have? I would imagine the Ultra probably has more output down around 20Hz. I do watch a lot of movies and I do appreciate a sub that has useable output in the 20Hz region. I do listen to a lot of music CDs and music Blu-ray/DVDs and like a sub that's good for music, too. According to the specs the RSW-15 is 3dB down at 19Hz. My CS-Ultra is connected to one channel from the Samson S1000 pro amp that I have and is getting about 500 watts max.

It'll work fine. You can either run all your speakers from the Parasound or run your front 3 from the Parasound and your SS.5s from the Yamaha. I'd be inclined to run everything from the Parasound since it should be a big step up from the amp inside your receiver. The 1000 watt rating for the amp is probably with a 4 ohm load on all channels. 80 quality watts going into each of your speakers is going to be loud, REAL loud. Just don't turn it up loud enough to hear audible distortion from your speakers and you'll be fine.

All HDTVs will upscale signals coming into the TV to whatever its native resolution is. If you have a 1080p TV with a 1920x1080 native resolution, that's what its going to output regardless of what signal it receives, 480p, 720p, 1080i, etc. If it receives a signal equal to its native resolution HDTVs usually don't do anything to it and usually perform 1:1 pixel mapping. Now, it is possible that depending on what device in your chain of devices is doing the upscaling (DVD player, Blu-Ray player, receiver, etc) they might have better processors performing the upscaling than are in your HDTV. The only way to find that out is to try hooking your devices directly to your TV and then running them through your receiver to see if you notice a difference. I personally run all audio and video through my receiver. Upscaling was not the reason I chose to do this, rather the convenience of being able to quickly switch between sources and being able to leave my TV on the same input all the time. My Marantz only upscales to 480p but passes everything else above that through at the same resolution it came in as. 1080p comes in, 1080p goes out. 720p comes in, 720p goes out, etc.

Welcome to the forums! Klipsch has a page that shows recommended systems: http://www.klipsch.com/na-en/products/home-theater-system/default.aspx?viewall=true The ones listed also display surround speakers but at least you'll know what speakers are recommended to go with what. I'd recommend the RB series for bookshelf speakers and depending on which RB you go with there's an RC series center speaker to match it: RB-51 with RC-52 center (least expensive) RB-61 with RC-62 center RB-81 with RC-64 center (most expensive) Lots of receivers work well with Klipsch. Yamaha, Denon, Harman/Kardon, Pioneer and Marantz are brands that many on here are very happy with.

One of the big dogs from companies such as Hsu, Elemental Designs or SVS would work. You need something that puts out some pretty high SPLs.

Even though there aren't a lot of 7.1 discs out there, the fact that you already have the speakers for it would have me encourage you to install them. You'll appreciate it as more and more 7.1 discs are released.

The 7400 is older than the 7001. The 7001 has HDMI inputs/outputs, the 7400 doesn't. I'd personally go with the 7001 and I'm not just saying that because I own one. Even though the 7001 is already a few years old it still has everything you need as far as connections, component video, HDMI, etc.

Very worth it. KGs work well as surrounds too.

Aroooooo! Aroooo Aroooooo! What an end! Baltimore shanks the winning field goal to the left. Favre wasn't even watching. You could see him asking "Did he miss it??" in the replay. [pi]