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Sure! Oh, the word "coming" only has one "m" in it by the way. We'll get your signature perfect eventually!

I haven't done any real critical listening yet but so far I love the Marantz. I have a few CDs I always listen to when I change something in my setup. One of them is Telarc's Great Fantasy Adventure album that has a lot of dynamic songs with sub-20Hz information and also detailed cymbals and other upper frequency instruments. I'll probably listen to it within the next day or two. I listened to Heart's live in Seattle concert on Blu-Ray and despite the fact that its a 5.0 recording (why no LFE track??) it sounded fantastic. I really was holding out for an 8001 but I suppose if I ever come across a great deal on an 8001 I'll get it.

If you want a Y adapter I have a Monster Cable male RCA to dual female RCA that I got with some speakers I recently bought. If you PayPal me $5 its yours. It looks just like this one:

I read a review about the 6003 somewhere, looks like it tested extremely well. The Marantz definitely does a much better job with two channel stereo than my Onkyo did. I don't want to say bad things about the Onkyo (especially since I'm trying to sell it!) because it is suited perfectly for home theater, which is what it was designed for. The Marantz is equally as good with two channel as it is with home theater sound. Two channel performance is important to me and so that's why I opted for the Marantz. Mr. RF62, I'd highly suggest buying from accessories4less.com : http://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/MARSR6003/Marantz/SR6003-Dolby-TrueHD-/-dts-HD-Master-Audio-AV-Receiver/1.html I'm pretty sure they have free shipping on that item and you get a free Marantz DVD player that you can sell on eBay for $50-75 to help defray the cost of the receiver.

You probably are, but any way that I can think of how you have them hooked up is presenting an ohm load to your receiver that it was not designed to handle. I don't really understand why you'd want the Quintets running along with your other speakers. They'd get drowned out in a hurry. If your receiver has dual front main speaker outputs (A + you could hook the Quintets up to the B channel although my above statement about them getting drowned out in a hurry would still apply.

Did it recently start doing this or has it worked normally in the past and now isn't?

When I bought some speakers recently the seller included 3 pairs of Monster Cable Z-Series cable with banana plugs on all ends. I always used to use bare wire. Man do I love having the bananas! I just swapped out receivers and re-connecting the wires in the back of the receiver took all of a minute or two which included the speaker wires, HDMI, component video, S-video, etc. I personally wouldn't buy Monster Cable but when I get them for free I don't mind.

Audyssey adjusts the channel levels so that at 0 volume you should be at Reference level. Because Klipsch are so efficient Audyssey lowers the channel levels quite a bit. If you go into the speaker setup menu and raise the channel levels that will help. Also, Audyssey limits the maximum output of the receiver by a lot. I personally don't like the Audyssey EQ but I do rely on it somewhat for speaker distance and level matching. Go into the EQ menu and turn the EQ to OFF. Let us know what happens.

You need to hook up a DVD or CD player and play an actual CD through your recieiver. Mp3s and DirecTV are not good sources to critique your system by.

I would run the unit's Audyssey setup and let it adjust the levels. There's a TON of settings on the receiver so make sure you go through each menu and set everything correctly. What are you using as a source for audio? By the way, if you're as big of a Klipsch fan as you say you are the least you could do is spell Klipsch correctly in your signature! []

Which 52s are you talking about? RC or RS?

xjohnx, Couple friendly suggestions if that's ok! I'd shift your setup over to the right so that your left speaker isn't so close to the left wall. You're getting a ton of early reflections from the left speaker since its located so close to the wall. Also, toeing in your front main speakers will help in that area and provide better imaging from the speakers. I'd angle them in slightly towards your main listening position and you can see if you like how they sound. Also, you really need to give your receiver some room to breathe! Its always dangerous to stack components on top of receivers. The heat generated by the receiver doesn't get to dissipate and any heat generated by the component above it will only add to the problem. If anything, I'd stack the receiver on top of the Samsung. Hope you're enjoying your Klipsch!

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Man these receivers are hard to set up. Of course, when you have HDMI, S-Video, component video, coaxial digital, optical digital and analog audio all going in it makes sense that it would take a little while. First impressions is that the Marantz sounds a LOT better with music than the Onkyo. Unfortunately my wife's in bed so I can't listen loudly until tomorrow when she's at work.

Got the receiver today. Seller packed it very well, thankfully. Looks to be 9/10 condition, very very nice. Has all the original accessories as far as power cable, Audyssey microphone, remote, manual, etc. Unfortunately my wife won't let me set it up right now because she's watching TV. She sure knows how to drive a guy nuts. [8o|]

Looking at the floor plan it looks like the LaScalas have a pretty huge area to have to reproduce sound in since its such an open floor plan. Looks like you are sitting right in the middle of the room as far as the distance from the Dining room wall behind you and the wall in front of you behind the LaScalas. The middle of the room usually has the least amount of audible bass. Artifically EQing wouldn't be my answer. Dividing the room into thirds and sitting in either the 1/3 or 2/3 distance of the room from the speakers has been recommended for the smoothest bass response.

What percentage do you listen to as far as movies/music? If you're 90% or more movies I would highly suggest thinking about buying my Onkyo. I'm sure the Yamaha is nice, but for $50 more than the Yamaha you'd be getting a beast of a HT receiver.

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/ele/1211208060.html http://www.klipsch.com/na-en/products/kp-250-overview/ Those might be worth taking a look at. Otherwise I'd give an obvious vote for Fortes since that's what I own. They definitely rock the house.

How close to the middle of the room are you sitting?

Will do!

Very nice setup Lylefan! I'm enjoying my dual SVS Ultras immensely. I have mine behind my seating position also and they have incredibly high output back there compared to the front of the room where I used to have my subs at.

RS-42s are designed as side surround speakers. If you need to do an in-ceiling install I'd recommend getting the Reference series in-ceiling speakers.

RS-42s aren't intended as front speakers won't sound very good at all up front. If you want something small, a bookshelf speaker like the RB-51 or 61 would be good with an RC-52 center.

His Velodyne takes XLR and RCA inputs. In my case my Samson sub amp only accepts XLR inputs.

The RS-42s would be a bit of overkill to the speakers you'd have up front. You could always get them if you intended to upgrade your front speakers some day, although if I were you I'd do the RSX-5s all around first and upgrade later (which will happen if you stick around here).