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westcott , not necessarily so, sure smaller woofers can be more accurate, but at the same time they can't travel as far so while they may match the surface area of larger ones, they will not match the amount of displaced air. IMO, the 1.75 tweeter made all the difference because it was the upper midrange driver (2000hz+). Yes, a 1.75" driver will sound better for midrange than an 8" woofer found on RF-5's. Hey, I am going to miss the RF-7's too, I just believe klipsch knows what they are doing and Im sure this new RF-83 will kick some tail. Lets not forget they are using different magnets now too! I bet the new RF-83 tweeter is something else. Im actually looking forward to listening to its advantages/disadvantages. Also, I dont feel this is cost saving at all. If you look at typicall high end speaker woofer prices. An 8" midrange driver may cost 150 dollars, while the 10" counter part is only about 170 dollars. Its almost always far more costly to add more smaller woofers than use less larger ones.

Here is the woofer on that new klipsch sub

http://www.audioholics.com/ces/CESspeakers/KlipschReferenceSeriesIV.php

im just wondering how much bass extension will suffer when the internal volume is reduced. Obviously the amp is bigger to problem compensate.

Set it to 120hz, then turn on crossover on the reciever?

Boy o Boy you Klipsch guys are so freaking critical. Lets just take a step back and try to understand why this is the new flag ship. First of all, Most speaker manufactures that employ 8" or larger woofers into a tower speaker use a 3 or more way system. Klipsch uses only a two way system which is inherently inferior is a few aspects. They had to use a 1.75" tweeter to dig lower to compensate for the inability of a 10" woofer to produce midrange beyond ~3000hz and sacrifice some of the high frequency airiness of 1" tweeters. This system is clearly superior. They move back to an appropriate sized tweeter and shell off some of that responsibly to a 8" midrange woofer which can handle higher frequencies better than a 10. Also, three 8's is about the exact same surface area as two 10's so there is really not sacrifice of SPLhere. Overall I feel this design will be superior to RF-7's in every single way and my question is.is this system even a 2-way system? There is a good change two of those woofers are dealing with different frequencies than the third, perhaps leading to even more midrange clarity?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />