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I have a similar speaker set-up (2 F3's, 4 SLX's, a C3 and a SUB12) on my Synergy HT. I have the F3's set as "large" and everything else set as "small." I drive them with a Yamaha HTR-5890 and use 14 gauge wire. The room is about 4000 cubic feet (20 x 20 x 10) with hardwood floors. Wire runs are about fifteen feet to the F3's and C-3, and around fifty feet to the SLX's. I did bi-wire the F3's using the A and B outputs, but that didn't affect the sound level. My normal day/evening listening level is around -30db to -25db. In night mode, I drop down to -50db to -45db. I have never gotten up to 0db, as the system tends to shake the entire house at about -5db. I am not familiar with the Denon AVR-2807; does it have a speaker impedance setting? Also, how are you routing the receiver inputs? Using the best possible outputs from your sources (coaxial or optical digital)? Any attenuation points (line level settings) prior to the signal reaching the Denon's input ports? I know that on my system, I get various input levels depending on the source (cable box, DVD player, HTPC, tape decks, game consoles, etc.). Most are fixed level outputs, although a couple were adjustable. It took me a while to get everything balanced to eliminate drastic level changes when swithing from one source to another. Keep in mind that the Denon might not be at fault if you are not feeding it properly ... GIGO (garbage in, garbage out!) Good luck in isolating the problem.

I have a pair of F3's for front mains and a SUB-12 also. Getting low-end out of the F3's depends on the receiver setting for bass. My Yammie gives me the option of mains only, subwoofer only, or both. I use the "both" setting and get really good bass out of the F3's and seem to feel rather than hear the extremely low-end out of the SUB-12. It could be that the BB folks had their system set-up for subwoofer only for everything below cut-over frequency.

Do you have a HTPC installed as part of your home theater system? Are you tired of hearing the whining of the blower fan in the case while you are listening to music or watching videos? I was. There is a cooling solution available that not only works great, but looks great as well. I installed a liquid cooling system this weekend and am totally happy with the results. It is the Thermaltake CL-W0042 Rhythm. It comes ready to install with pre-filled coolant. It took about an hour to disasemble the PC, remove the motherboard, attach the supplied cooling block to the processor, and reassemble the computer. All required parts were included in the Thermaltake kit including drip-less quick disconnect valves. Operating temperature on the processor dropped from about 31 degrees C at idle to 21 degrees C. At full load (real-time transcoding of a DVD), the operating temperature dropped from 41 degrees C to 32 degrees C. The system is almost totally silent, with only minimal noise from the airflow over the radiator. This unit is designed to look like a high-end DVD player and looks very good sitting on a shelf with my receiver, HTPC, and other components. Cost is around $200 (US) at most mail-order sites. I bough mine from Directron. If you are like me and tired of the noise, you might want to give this a try. Thermaltake has a couple of other water-cooling solutions, including a fan-less unit and one that looks like a vertical flat-panel speaker. Here is the Thermaltake URL: http://www.thermaltake.com/watercooling/cl-w0042Rhythm/cl-w0042.htm Here is a hardware review (there are many others; just Google for CL-W0042): http://stores.tomshardware.com/rating_getprodrev.php/product_id=16248070/id_type=M//

I decided to blow my tax refund this year by starting on a home theater system. First purchase was a Yamaha HTR-5890 receiver, three Klipsch SLX flat panel speakers and a SUB-12. The sound was great, but my original Sony 32 CRT TV left something to be desired. Next was a Dell 42 Plasma HDTV. Now I had a picture to match the sound, but still with only 3.1 audio. Rather than adding two more SLXs for the surround speakers, I added two F3s as the front mains and moved the two SLXs to the side surround position. 5.1 was awesome but the F3s mains made the remaining SLX center seem a bit weak, so I replaced it with a C3 center. This gave me an extra SLX, so I bought another and made them the back surrounds. This gave me true 7.1 sound and with all Klipsch. Now with all the great sight and sound, I simply had to upgrade my media center PC more power, Scotty! I ended up with a dual-core processor HTPC system, 2 GB of 667MHz DDR-2 SDRAM, ATI X1800XL AIW video card, and 500GB hard drive for recording. I needed to add another media server PC with 1TB of raid storage (yes, thats a terabyte) just to store the ripped CDs and DVDs. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Where does it all end?

I recently purchased a Yamaha HTR-5890 receiver, a Klipsch SUB-12 subwoofer, and a pair of Klipsch Synergy SLX flat panel speakers to go with my new LCD HDTV. I love the sound difference compared to the detachable speakers that came with the LCD. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I am thinking of expanding to a 5.1 surround system. Anyone have ideas on what would be best for the three additional speakers? I am toying with the idea of just adding three more SLXs, but am open to suggestions. Also, is there any real advantage to going to a 7.1 system?