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I remember reading his post about his LaScalas. Its too bad that it takes a tragedy such as this to make us realize what is truly important in our lives - life itself. If any of Kenneth's family reads this, I'm truly sorry for your loss. []

Thanks for the suggestions! It just dawned on me that I made $250 selling my subwoofer just before my wife and I went to Florida. I guess I can stretch my CD player budget just a little bit farther than I thought!

Why don't you want the RF-7s to produce low frequencies?

What would be a good option as a step above an older Denon that was an average CD player for its day? I'm looking to spend $100 tops. Doesn't need a digital output.

My Sony receiver has dual center channel outputs. It explains in the manual the benefits of doing so.

No frowning here! There are a couple on eBay right now...

Hey kids, rock and roll rock on! Bought the CD for my wife last night. I told her it was her early anniversary present. She said that better not be the only thing she's getting! [:|] She thought it was alright. "Stay with me" is dead-on. "No matter what" is probably the best song on the disc. I thought it was great!

If you are able to manually change the low crossover point for your front main speakers, set them to 80hz and set your sub to the same level. Your RF-82s can easily play lower than 80hz, but this way the subwoofer will be handling the lowest bass.

Many good words of wisdom! I didn't change out the cables because the old way sounded bad at all. I just figured why do I have these expensive cables lying around that are supposed to be better than what I was using.

My RF-7s. $1000.

Last night I switched my speaker cables to super thick, something like 8 gauge Monster Cables that I used to use for a passive subwoofer several years ago. That was an upgrade from a 16 gauge or so Monster Cable that had been on there. I also changed my interconnects going from my CD player to my receiver. They went from Monster Cable's lowest end cord to their almost top of the line cord (500 series or something) that I had bought several years ago. The lengths of each cable was shortened, too. The interconnects went from about 8 feet to 3 feet. The speaker cable went from about 10 feet to about 6 feet. Is it possible that I actually do notice a difference in sound? Deeper bass, more clarity in vocals and individual instruments? Or does it seem to sound better just because I want it to sound better? BTW, I know that Monster Cable isn't the best cable in the world.

I saw that and almost emailed the guy about it. I'm from north of the Twin Cities. Where do you live?

I think if your projection screen is 10 inches wide you have problems worse than you think!! [] Well, let's assume you meant 10 feet wide screen. Are you going to set the RC-7s so they are sitting upright or lay them flat like the center channel? They may sound different depending on how you have them placed. In an L/C/R application the best sound comes from using 3 identical speakers.

I was curious as to how many people thought that if I were to trade my RF-7s for a pair of nice Cornwalls if it would be worth it. I don't want this to start a Reference vs. Heritage argument, but I know the Cornwall reputation. Does a midrange horn help with vocal clarity? I've never listened to Cornwalls. The only Heritage I'ver ever heard was a pair of Belles back in the early-mid 90s and don't remember much about them.

Back in the early 90s, Audio King was the only store around here that carried them. They had a pair of Belles and a huge Klipsch sub. They played the music so loud it vibrated the satellite speakers which were on the wall behind them right off their shelves and onto the floor. Then my friend bought a middle of the line Klipsch sub with .5s for the main speakers. A few years ago another friend of mine invited my wife and I over for dinner and we listened to his RF-7s for a couple hours. I couldn't believe how they sounded. Now I can listen to RF-7s every day![]

Some speakers you might find in that price range are Heresys, KG 5.5s, KG 4.5, KG 4.

I guess I can't comment on the pros and cons of front/rear/downfiring subs but I can say that the Klipsch Sub-12 ($499 at Best Buy) has been getting quite a few rave reviews.

Umm, people, did you actually LOOK and read the auction?? Look at the pic: Woofer is loaded 1/3 of the way into the tube...the tube is 12 feet 6" long...its a 12" woofer. What are you complaining about? Not defending Bose, but just wondering why everyone bashing individual aspects of the cannon didn't check the facts first.

From the receiver the wires go to each high level input, not output. Then hook the high level output to the speakers themselves. Also, there is a volume control, or level control knob on the back of the subwoofer. Make sure that isn't turned all the way down.

Please do! The place had the word "Blue" in their name. Also if you go on Saturday night they have a classic car cruise. Last Saturday there were about 300 cars!

I went to karaoke in Old Town by Orlando, FL last week and they had JBL Pro speakers. I would have loved to see how the guy had the EQ set up, since it seemed that from 1khz on up it was boosted by about 30dB. It was so bad that my ears were ringing for minutes afterward. Didn't help that the singers were generally terrible. [:|]

Echoing the others, DON'T do it. Stupid scammers. [:@]

That thread only had one 'bump' from him and the entire thread only lasted about a week. Ever think that he might have had difficulty finding the original thread and just decided to start over with a new one?

Also your subwoofer has a volume knob that you can use to blend it with your main speakers as best as possible. Best way to do that is to sit where you normally listen to music or watch TV and put on a CD that has some songs you're familiar with that have some decent bass. Start with the volume knob (sometimes called level input) as low as possible. Then have someone slowly turn the knob up until you like how the subwoofer sounds with your main speakers. You shouldn't have to adjust that knob much, if ever after that.

Your problem is that you have the left speaker from your 'A' pair of speakers and the left speaker from your 'B' pair of speakers hooked up. Here's what you do: On the back of the receiver where the speaker wire is connected you can see that at the top it says R-B-L and R-A-L. The L and R in each area is for Left and Right. What you want to do is move the wires that are currently connected to the L in R-B-L and move them to the R in R-A-L. I hope it makes sense. Then just make sure that the speaker wire that's connected to L (Left) is hooked up to the Left input on the subwoofer and then goes to the Left speaker. Also make sure that the speaker wire that's now connected to R (Right) is hooked up to the Right input on the subwoofer and then goes to the Right speaker. This should fix your problems. Please let us know if this helps! P.S. The reason why there is an A and B output where the speaker wire goes is that you can hook up two pairs of speakers at the same time. With how I recommended you to hook your speakers up, they will be hooked up to the A output. So on the front of the receiver make sure the output for speaker pair A is selected and always leave the output for speaker pair B turned off.