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I just watched the VH1 Pulse concert special. Unfortunately it was only an hour long and with commercials I think they only showed 4 songs. What I saw sounded great and I can only imagine the DVD being that much better.

mOOn, I've worked at a jewelry store for over 8 years and have heard tons of stories about how people have presented rings. Some are very elaborate, some very simple. One thing you could do is when she's sleeping, just put it on her finger. See how long it takes her to notice it after she wakes up! You could also put it on something that she uses (curling iron, toothbrush, etc) every day.

Get a 7.1 receiver.

To be honest with you, I'd save your money. I 'downgraded' from 5 channel + subwoofer to two channel when I bought my RF-7s. I don't regret the decision at all.

The efficiency of your Quartets and Academy will pretty much drown out the Polks unless you use them as headphones. [] All kidding aside, $40 is cheap enough to be able to resell them if you find a pair that's better suited to your front speakers.

That's awesome JMON! I went to a private Corvette museum in Indiana a couple of years ago. The owner has the largest collection of ZR-1s on the planet. There were at least 8 there if I remember correctly, and a couple of them only had between 50 and 500 miles on them. He had some Pace Cars, a split window, many rare colors, several rare engine options too. Racking my brain, isn't the ZR-1 a completely different body than the regular Vette? Something like 5 inches wider and the same amount longer? I'm trying to remember about the engine, isn't it derived from a Mercury marine engine? You'll have to post some pics!

Is it a Marantz sr8200 that you have? If so, you have outputs for each speaker on the back of the receiver. It is a 6.1 receiver, correct? Whatever you do, DO NOT hook up more than one speaker per speaker output!

You probably know this already, but component or HDMI cables are a must for both your DVD player and your digital cable box, if you have one.

Speaker matching has little to do with frequency response matching. Think crossover, driver material, etc. In your case you might be better off getting better front mains and running a phantom center channel.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Cool test to make sure you're getting the speed you're paying for. My upload speeds are crappy, but download is 3109 kbps.

To bi-AMP you will need two identical amplifiers, one amplifying only the woofers, one amplifying only the tweeters. To bi-WIRE you need to remove the jumpers connecting LF and HF. Connect two wires to each output on your receiver. Then connect one to the positive HF, positive LF, negative HF, negative LF. You can call Klipsch and the parts department should be able to get you the jumpers for your RB-5s.

Whatever you do, don't listen to advice from any of the big box salespeople. I actually heard a Circuit City salesperson tell a lady who was looking at receivers that Brand X would play louder than Brand Y because the volume knob went up to 20 on Brand X but only to 15 on Brand Y! No joke!! [8o|]

With today's surround sound formats and mixes the more of a full range speaker that you can have as surrounds the more you'll benefit from it. If you are able to use floorstanders without having them obstructed by furniture, by all means do it. And if you are able to use the same speakers as your front mains, even better.

I've seen Aerosmith twice, Garth Brooks twice, Boston once and Kid Rock once at the same place and they all sounded great. The performance by Def Leppard seemed really good. I think someone in the audio chain of command messed some things up big time. The drums sounded great, but the vocals, guitars and piano sounded horrible. It was a fun concert at least.

Unfortunately the acoustics at the Minneapolis Target center SUCK! Add to that the music was about twice as loud as it should have been and all the concert consisted of was muffled voices and ear-piercing piano and guitar shrieks. The one thing that struck me was that at the beginning, some guy came out and played a guitar just by himself. He wasn't from Journey or Def Leppard and he played 3 songs. I have no idea who he was or what he was singing because I didn't recognize the songs and I couldn't understand any of the lyrics because of what I mentioned above. However, his acoustic guitar...sounded exactly like an acoustic guitar playing through my RF-7s! I have a live CD from a local artist by the name of Martin Zellar. Its an acoustic concert recorded a few years ago. When I crank up the volume with that CD, the guitar sounded exactly as it did live last night. Sorry to say that both Journey and Def Leppard neglected to play any acoustic songs. I was just very impressed at how well Klipsch speakers can faithfully reproduce audio, especially live audio.

91 here right now with a 98 degree heat index. And where am I off to? Going to play tennis outside! Gotta sweat a few pounds off.

I'm not sure what kind of video cables the XBox 360 comes with, but you'll need a component or HDMI cable to get High Def resolution. Interestingly enough, even though the PlayStation 2 doesn't support HD in its hardware, certain games like Gran Turismo 4 and the motorcycle game that the makers of Gran Turismo made support 1080i resolution through their software. If I play the game in HD, my TV automatically switches over to 1080i resolution. Pretty cool.

What are you using for amplification right now?

If I were you I'd just pick up the cheapest stereo receiver you can find and use it for radio.

Come on, man, all of us had to learn about audio at some point! [H]

Exactly. The binding posts make the connection so that both the tweeters and woofers are working. If you want to see for yourself, take the jumpers off and just connect the tweeter or woofer input. If you tried hooking up two separate input sources while the jumpers were in place you would fry both amplifiers and possibly blow your speakers. You can buy a box that lets you switch between sources if you really need to do this.

One set of positive inputs on the speaker goes to the tweeter. The other goes to the woofer. Same is true with the negative inputs. So, what that means is that one source would only play through the woofers and one source would only play through the tweeters. In other words, don't do it. Use an internet radio feed if you want to listen to the radio through your computer.

Umm, the RF-10 which is the smallest Reference speaker is 95 dB efficient and all the rest are higher up to the RF-7 which is 102 dB.

Whew. Thought something was up with my computer. Sorry to say, but I'm glad it isn't only me! [:$]

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