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Is your audio from the DVD player connected by a digital or analog connection? How do you plan on hooking up the audio of the Rotel?

I think the only things I ever bought from them was a couple CDs and DVDs and a HDTV screen cleaning kit which I ended up getting free because I had a rebate on it. And to think I wanted to work there once!

That's one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Bookmark this site: http://www.monoprice.com I have three HDMI cables and an optical digital cable from them and the combined total was about $30 including shipping. Spend your hard earned $$ where it counts, not on overpriced Monster cables!

The front three speakers are the most critical to match. You definitely don't want to put the smallest Synergy speaker as your center speaker, it will put a huge damper on your sound output. You'd be better off running without a center speaker. Your RF-35s will probably put out cleaner, tighter bass than any cheap subwoofer can. If anything you can sell your RC-35 and use the $$ from that plus whatever you were planning on spending on a subwoofer and get a nicer one.

Watched it the other day on Blu-Ray. My wife and I both liked it.

If your receiver is capable of a 6.1 output then you can use a single speaker as a rear surround instead of a pair of them. If yours is and you want to do that, I would use the KLF-C7 as your front center speaker and the RC-3II as the rear surround. If you're trying to hook both of them up to your single center speaker output and have one in front and one in back....

Congratulations on your new speakers. You ARE going to buy them, aren't you?? [] I paid $275 almost three years ago for my near mint Forte IIs without knowing how good of a deal I was getting on them. As I sit here listening to the Legends of Jazz Blu-Ray on them I realize how incredible of a speaker they are for the money.

Easiest way to tell Forte I from Forte II is the rear passive woofer on the I is 12" and on the II is 15" and is nearly as wide as the speaker cabinet.

Since DVD is DVD and Blu-Ray is DVD + Blu-Ray I think its a no-brainer. Blu-Ray players in general do an awesome job at upscaling standard DVDs. Get a PS3 and you'll have a Blu-Ray player, DVD player, CD player, music server and video game player all in one.

Actually speakers from the RB series are recommended as rear surrounds. Since you have Reference series for your side surrounds, something from the Reference series in a bookshelf speaker would work great.

I don't know, I think if dual center speakers were a good idea surround sound receivers and companies who make them would have jumped on that bandwagon a long time ago. There's a reason why there's only one center speaker output on 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of them.

Absolutely awesome. The bass from them is extremely well defined and they get insanely loud. I don't have the MBM hooked up with them yet but I'll try it within the next day or two and see how the three integrate together. I haven't listened to much music on them yet but I just got the Legends of Jazz on Blu-ray from NetFlix and tomorrow night I'm going to give it a listen. For movies they've been incredible.

1) Yes. Side surrounds are designed to be placed on the side walls only slightly behind your listening position. They don't really rely on walls to reflect sound. 2) Side surrounds are usually recommended to be wide dispersion, rear surrounds are usually recommended to be direct radiating such as bookshelf type speakers. 3) They would be awesome as side surrounds!

...or two. [] Great movie, own it on DVD but haven't watched it in a while.

For a very brief period of time I had a pair of SS.5 surrounds and they sounded very small if that makes sense. When I upgraded to RS-42s I could tell a huge difference. I think the dual woofer and dual tweeter design gives them a lot more of a presence - they can really output a wide range of sound and do so quite loudly. I'd go at least SS-1s if not higher up just to keep up with the dynamic range of your Fortes.

You might want to get ahold of member colterphoto by private message or email. I'm sure he has a wealth of knowledge in those areas.

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrmoni&1237412571&/Klipsch-rs-52- Looks like its the seller's first transaction on audiogon but it might be a good option for you!

I too recommend Cambridge Audio. I only sold mine because the DACs in my Onkyo are of higher quality than the Cambridge's, which were excellent.

Your thread title says light oak, your post says medium oak, WHICH ONE IS IT?? [] My best friend has a pair of light oak (I think) KLF-30s and they are more of a yellowish color and the grain patterns are very thin and closely spaced together. Totally different than my Oiled Oak Forte IIs.

If you do get two, use only one. KV2 will work but the higher sensitivity of the 3 and 4 makes them a better match, along with their larger drivers.

Well, things weren't the easiest to get set up. I had to remove the bottom bases of each Ultra in order to install the banana plugs. I guess they're not going anywhere, which is good. Absolutely impossible to accidentally pull those suckers out! I hooked them up, turned on the amp and slowly adjusted the gain controls. I ran Audyssey and found I had the gains way too low. I think that's probably because this is a pro amp and it isn't getting a hot enough signal from my receiver. I bumped up the gain controls and tweaked the output levels on my receiver and MAN OH MAN OH MAN. Those Ultra drivers are Ultra alright! Tossed in Transformers on Blu-Ray and the Ironside flip scene vibrated everything in the basement that wasn't bolted down. My PS3 remote fell off the back of the couch and into my lap. My wife rented Eagle Eye tonight and even though there wasn't a ton of LFE, what was there sounded incredible. The Ultras have a much more articulate type of bass compared to my PC-Plus. Every bass frequency seems to be that much more well defined. And when it needs to, it pounds the crap out of you. I just looked up the manual for the sub online and realized I had it in the wrong setting. It has 'Parallel' 'Stereo' and 'Bridge' modes. It was set to Parallel by the guy who shipped it to me so I assumed that was right. Well, turns out Parallel mode takes only the input from Channel 1 and divides it between the two outputs. Stereo mode is what I want to have it in. I don't think it'll affect the sound too much but I'll have to try it out and see. I was getting some HUGE bass and according to the manual it said the Clip light should blip just briefly during peak operation. Well, I wasn't anywhere near the Clip light coming on with the magnificent output from these monsters. By the way, I'm doing everything in my power to keep both Ultras and also my MBM-12 instead of having to sell the MBM. I can't hook the MBM up right now because I don't have another y-splitter to use. The Ultras definitely have a ton more mid-bass slam than the 16-46 does but they still don't match the output of the MBM.

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SVS & Hsu

Well, I'm still in process of cleaning our basement before everything gets set up. My wife thinks that cleaning everything today right now is better than cleaning tomorrow. "Yes, dear. My new toys can wait." [:S] Here's the lineup obviously not where they will be finally installed: SVS & Samson amp