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General subwoofer settings: Phase at 0 Gain to 10 or 11 o'clock Crossover as high as it can go, only if your receiver allows you to control your subwoofer's crossover. If it does, start with 80Hz and see how that sounds. You might need to raise it a bit due to the fact that the Quintet speakers don't play that deep of bass and you don't want a big hole in the frequency range between the Quintets and your sub.

Oh yeah. That's on the itinerary but I forgot to mention it. Gotta stop for my 5 cent cup of coffee!

I was thinking of somehow coming up with a game or riddle to give her that if she got it she'd know where we're going. But, I really want to keep the surprise as long as I can.

Congrats! If you stick around here any longer you'll be upgrading your subwoofer in no time. []

Nope. I don't think she'll guess until we're close to Rapid City. I think she might guess that we're still going to Yellowstone because the way out to Rapid City would be the same way we'd take to Yellowstone. I'll definitely bring our camera and take lots of pics.

I've never heard any of the Icon series, so take this with a grain of salt. The particular model you refer to is a self-powered speaker. You'll have to plug each speaker into the wall and are limited by the internal amplifiers of the speaker itself. In other words, you could upgrade to the most kick-butt receiver/amp in the world but it wouldn't really make any difference because you'd be using the amplifiers within the speaker itself and not from the receiver/amp. I think most on here would give the nod to the Reference series over the Icon series. If you want to rock it properly, that's what the Reference speakers were designed for. The Icon series were designed to be a more modern looking speaker that aren't as large and take up less floor space than the Reference speakers do. From what you've described, if you're able to get a good deal on the RF-82/RC-62 combo I think it'll be what you're looking for in sound. I'm not sure what your budget is, but it looks like on eBay RF-82 pairs are going for around $850 new-in-box, RC-62s are going for around $350 new-in-box.

My wife and I had planned on going to Yellowstone National Park this year but a call from a resort on a Wisconsin lake a few months back led us to an impromptu vacation that ate up most of our vacation fund. We agreed to postpone Yellowstone for another year. I still wanted to go somewhere fun for a few days so I asked my wife if I could plan a vacation without her knowing where we were going. She had to think about it for a little bit but then said that would be fine. So, we're heading west to Rapid City, South Dakota for a few days. I have the itinerary all planned: Mount Rushmore, Badlands Nat'l Park, Wind Cave Nat'l Park, Rapid City Museum of Geology and a waterfall near Rapid City. She's never been out that way and I haven't been out there for 20 years. I was able to book a room at the Super 8 motel in Rapid City for $35/night! Comes with a free continental breakfast every morning and free coffee in the room. I guess it helps to be traveling during off-peak season!

Welcome to the Klipsch forums! One suggestion I'd make is to replace the Icon series center speaker with an RC-62. You want your front 3 speakers to match as closely as possible. Side surrounds aren't as crucial to match as the fronts are. Either that or instead of RF-62s, getting something from the Icon series as your front main speakers. You'd really have to do an A/B comparision between the RF-62s and RF-82s to see if the difference in sound is worth it to your ears and pocketbook.

Nice score! Sad thing is the pawn shop only paid about $35 to some poor soul for those. []

Try installing the jumper bars back in and hook up the speaker with a single positve and negative cable and see if anything changes.

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Well, this one takes the cake: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/ele/1357737846.html Out of the kindness of my heart I emailed them and told them that they had the most unique spelling of the Klipsch brand that I had ever seen and suggested if they correct the spelling they'll probably get a lot more interest in them.

I read through your post and it doesn't sound like you checked the bi-wire/bi-amp metal jumpers. Are they connected correctly?

Welcome to the forum! You can find their phone # at the link below: http://tinyurl.com/llfxjr []

Pretty much any of the Reference RS series surrounds will work. eBay always has tons of them for sale both new and used.

So you have RF-7s and you're worrying about how big your center speaker is?? [] The RC-10, being the smallest center speaker in the Reference line, would be a terribly poor match to your RF-7s. Even if you were to level match its output with your RF-7s you will be creating a huge sound bottleneck. There's absolutely no way that the RC-10 will match RF-7s.

HWO = Heresy Walnut Oil. I figured since you bought them at a garage sale you picked them up cheap. You stole them for $35! Nice job!!

Welcome to the Klipsch family and forum! Looks like they were made in 1975. Heresys generally sell from $250-600 depending on age and condition. How much did you pick yours up for? They usually have an abbreviated code for the type of wood they are made of as well. Something like HOO means Heresy Oak Oil. If you post any other information from the tag on back we'll be able to give you a little more info. [Y]

Yesterday's top of the line receivers are incredible deals now that newer units with HDMI, Audyssey, etc. have taken over. There's some sweet receivers from brands like Denon, Harman/Kardon, Marantz that are only a few years old that can be had for $150-250 that originally sold for up to $2000. A lot of them have 5.1 or 7.1 discrete inputs so if a person has a Blu-Ray player with 5.1/7.1 discrete outputs you'll still be hearing the latest HD audio formats. If I didn't have a PS3 (which doesn't have 5.1/7.1 outputs) but had a Blu-Ray player that did I wouldn't think twice about picking up an older receiver like I mentioned above.

Colin, I was referring to my SVS subwoofer not the Fortes. Although, having a single SVS Ultra powered by one channel of my Samson amp has proven to be more than sufficient to keep up with my Fortes. I guess I was really spoiled when I had 2 Ultras. I was mainly lamenting the fact that my Samson amp can be bridged to output 1000 watts x 1 but my SVS Ultra is a 4 ohm speaker and the Samson amp says to use an 8 ohm minimum speaker when bridging it.

http://www.speakerstandsonline.com/ You'll probably want something at least 30" tall.

I think you'll still be too close for rear speakers. RS-42s or 52s to your side will probably be more than adequate.

The link below lists all the Klipsch systems by price: http://www.klipsch.com/na-en/products/home-theater-system/default.aspx?viewall=true

Accessories4less has a great online reputation - I wouldn't hesitate about buying anything from them. I almost bought a Marantz SR7001 from them but stumbled on a deal too good to pass up on eBay instead. In my experience (I had an Onkyo TX-SR805 before my current Marantz) is that Onkyo does a stellar job with home theater but only so-so with music. Marantz does a great job with with movies and music.

If your couch is sitting directly against the back wall like is shown in the pic I wouldn't recommend any rear surrounds. The only way you'd be able to use them is to go with in-wall or in-ceiling speakers which wouldn't be recommended by too many on here.