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The price I'm quoting is not per pair, it's also at London Drugs. That's odd because the salesman looked it up and said they've never been on sale and $320 was the lowest they've been. I guess I'll try and bring in a CD to listen to them both, but I'd like people to share their thoughts .

Hello, I'm looking to buy some surround speakers to match my RF-15's I purchased a few weeks ago. I went to the store today and found the RS-35's for $220 cdn (which is a good deal, they say retail was around $450), but the RS-42's probably match my wall situation between (my setup is fairly weird, my architecture post explains it all: http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/thread/911495.aspx). The RS-42's are more expensive (around $320 cdn) and look like smaller speakers. Which are better quality? The salesman told me the RS-42's are much better sounding, but again they're more expensive and not on special, so I'm not sure if he's just looking for commission. Please help me out. Thanks! .

Thanks for the help! I think I may just have to experiment with the leftover speakers I have from my cheapo 5.1 package, figuring out how to position them etc before purchasing the Klipsch. With your advice, I think positioning them slightly behind the secondary couch on the walls might be alright. The advice about what's recorded on the surround channels was pretty helpful. I may experiment with just one at the base of the L to see what kind of effect it makes (and see if my receiver is smart enough to send both channels to it). I'll have to test my games to see if it makes a huge difference having multiple surrounds. Thanks again!

Thanks for the response! Having the speakers facing upward is something I haven't heard of before, that may help with my options. Also I don't have the LCD wall-mounted or ceiling mounted. It's actually just sitting on top of the fireplace (which is really deep and triangular). Right now I'm mostly worried about the speakers being behind and not neccesarily facing the viewer. To explain this, I'll call the couch against the Master Bedroom the primary couch (since it is the primary listening position, the one I use when I watch alone). Please refer to the photo included in the original post. Should I put speakers near the back on either side of the room (i.e. the right one is at the joint of the couches)? If so, the listeners in the primary couch would be hearing the right-surround sound coming from their left. But if I put both speakers on either side of that listening position, then the secondary couch would have both speakers to their right. It's that sort of dilemma that has me stuck right now. I'm thinking about putting the speakers behind the couches altogether, and have the surround coming from behind the listener instead of beside them (most guides I've read say this isn't the correct positioning, but I'm not sure I have another choice), again doing this will make it so both surrounds are coming from the left of the primary couch. For the center speaker, what I'd really like is a speaker that could mount to the LCD itself (on the top). That would be great, but I think I may just have to forget about obtaining a center and having my two front speakers simulate it since I haven't seen any of those. Side note, I have one of those newer receivers that does the auto-calibration (Pioneer 816), and it seems to be okay but I prefer to manually boost up the bass on the subwoofer otherwise I don't get a nice blend (it doesn't seem to configure that part correctly). Any suggestion on where to place these speakers would be great. I'd like to avoid ceiling mounting if possible, but if that's the best way to go then I suppose I can dig up the blue prints and give it a shot (I'm not really a handy with that sort of stuff, but I can figure something out). Thanks again.

Hello, I've been trying to setup a modest home theater in my condo. I've decided to go with the RF-15 main speakers and their accompanying surrounds since I can get them at a discount locally. I've already purchased the RF-15's, but I am having trouble determining where to place the surround speakers. Unfortunately my room is not quite rectangular, it is more triangular with an L-shaped couch and no back wall. I've enclosed a picture. In the picture the red rectangles are my couches. The blue rectangle is all my equipment (receiver, xbox, etc.) so that wall is taken up. The green is a computer desk, leaving that space taken up. The pink are the RF-15 speakers and my TV sits on top of the fireplace. It is a 37" LCD so the center channel cannot sit on top. I have a RW-10 subwoofer which is wedged between an RF-15 speaker and my audio equipment rack (the blue rectangle). My first dilemma is there's no place for the center. I could perhaps put the speaker UNDER the TV if it would support that kind of weight, but I'm worried then about the TV being too high for viewing comfortably (it is already fairly high). I'm worried about ceiling mounting anything since it's a condo and already someone in the building has drilled into plumbing by accident, otherwise I'd mount the center above the TV. I'm thinking about getting a speaker stand for the center and putting it above the TV, but it would probably ruin the aesthetics of a clean fireplace mantle that houses only my TV. The second problem is the surround sound speakers. All documents I've read say "they should be slightly above ear height, to the sides of the viewer". But I have an L-shaped setup, so the left side of one viewer is not the left side of another. How can I mount the surrounds so they sound right when watching films? Also, while I'm at it, any last minute advice about purchasing matching front/surround speakers? As I've mentioned, I currently own the RF-15's and the RW-10. Is matching with the RC-25 and RS-25 that important? Can I go with the cheaper, smaller Synergy surround pair? Thanks in advance for your help.