Catharsis147

Ditto, Get the best center you can afford. Well worth the investment.

Dbossa is right on in my opinion. Carpet made a huge difference in my room. Absolute night and day. I will have to search the forum for DrWho's analysis, as I cannot figure how a carpet could NOT affect a room's acoustics, regardless of thickness. I do not claim any sort of knowledge on this matter, but there was a giant difference in my case, and my carpet is probably less than 4 inches thick (if not less).

Oh!! And the RS-7s do diffuse the sound a bit more, making surround material a bit more realistic than a direct radiating speaker like the RB-75. A high consideration if you are using a system almost exclusively for home theater.

Actually, to be honest, my system started out with the RB-75's as my mains, RC-7 as center. I bid on a set of RB-75's on ebay because I did not think $620.00 would win (then it did...much to my surprise). Upgraditis and a good deal recently made me get the RF-7's to put as my mains. All in all, I had no idea my system would end up the way it is now (my REAL start was with an RC-25 hooked up to Yamaha HTIB speakers....two years later I have a system even better than I could have dreamed). To answer though, even if I did have a choice, I probably still would have stuck with the RB-75's because I think they will maintain their value better and as Arky mentioned, they are better for whatever multichannel audio tunes you might be encountered with. I also move around quite a bit while I listen to music, thus I like the option of 6 channel stereo. Another reason I did not opt for the RS is because speaker stands are more appealing to me than having the speakers in the wall in an old brownstone, and the RS-7 would never get 2 feet over my head like the RB-75's do on stands.

If you can pull it off, I would go with the RF-7's. You are right, the RC-7's are not much of a savings and the RB-75's are just plain nonexistent almost anywhere right now. If you can give them some room and you dont mind the real estate, the RF-7's would be the best match in my opinion.....

Except that the RF-7's are rear ported......and they are huge, another consideration.

RB-75's. The RB-35 cherry will NOT match your RF-7s or RC-7. That cherry is too light. If you want front ported and matching, I think your only option is the RB-75's, unless another manufacturer has a model or the new RB-81's are made with a matching cherry.........

Jay, since you moved, any pics of the RF-83's in their positions now? I know it is an old topic, but hey, why not?

Here is a pic of the new babies............

Gotta love those copper woofers.......

RB-75 Left Surround.....

RB-75 Right Surround

RB-75 Rears........

With covers off........

I hope this comes out okay

I, personally, would upgrade the subwoofer to an RSW 12 or something like that. Or save it to get a pair of RF-83's or save it and get an rt-12d eventually. Plenty of options if you ask me.....

El, I doubt I will get another pair. I live in a brownstone and getting those things up two flights of steep, narrow staircases was an experience I will never repeat. Besides, I think the Rb-75's are more than capable as surrounds and rears. TDK, Actually, before I bought mine I e mailed the Klipsch store about cherry RF-7's, but Amy said that they only had the maple available. Maybe in a few months some cherry ones will turn up. It is funny bceause my RF-7's have a serial number that starts with -07, so maybe Klipsch has a lot of extra RF-7's hanging aoround after all...........

Yeah, I JUST switched the signature line! I was immersed in the sonic nirvana that are my new towers. Wholly crap was I missing something, even with my RB-75's. These towers simply rock, no question. Jay: I got them new in the box on ebay (wwstereo). They sold them for less than $1200.00 and I simply could not refuse. If only j and r had them still! Anyway, these babies matched my RC-7 perfectly so I decided to just stick with that reference series than switch to the RF-83's (it hleps that I got those -7's for about $400.00 less than Myron coulda swung for the -83's too [])

Actaully, I literally just got a pair of RF-7's from this dealer not even four hours ago. I will say this: other than Klipsch, this retailer is THE company to buy RF-7's from. They packaged the speakers very well and even UPS could not screw up my lovely babies. Shipping was only $140.00 to me. Anyway, this is just to say wwstereo is legit. Vince, who runs the internet sales portion, is friendly and courteous, with no bullshit whatsoever.

Update: After much internal debate, I have pulled the trigger on a pair of RF-7's in cherry. Saved a buttload of money on them versus the RF-83's after all. El Lopez, and all of you, thanks for the advice. As of tommorrow my home theater will TRULY be -7 series throughout. Too bad my audio fetish surpasses my video, as I was looking originally at updating the old 27" CRT TV (DAMN YOU KLIPSCH!!) I think I will watch one of the Lord of The Rings movies to start the break in tommorrow night []

This thread is pretty old, but if you are looking for RF-7's, make a best offer to wwstereo on e-bay. I JUST put in an order for mine and got them for $1050.00 plus about $140.00 in shipping. They will ship out the same day too. 100% A-stock, new in the box. Nice guys as far as business is concerned too. Once they show up I will let you know how the RF-7's faired UPS.

Indeed.....look for "theEAR." He has significanlty more speakers than anyone could EVER hope to listen to and he lives in an apartment in Canada. Nuts would be a bit of an understatement.........

Bonsai!

Interesting.....especially given A). I hear that same fatigue (or should I say brightness) from my RC-7 but NOT my RB-75's and . Trey Cannon confirmed a while back that the tweeter in the RB-75's was attenuated to accomodate the single 8" woofer versus the RC-7 and RF-7 using two low frequency transducers. The lesson? Everyone has different ears!! Thanks El for your observations..........................

too little info........