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the monoprice ones work for me. they are easy to wire as you thread the wire through, strip just a little and fan the wire over the top and then screw down the other half of the plug. to ensure a tight fit you can gently use pliers to push the point toward the base which will fan out the connectors on the side.

I had bad luck with Onkyo and good luck with Yamaha. I'm itching to replace my older one with one that connects to the internet, but I think we can hold out until we get a new TV.

I'm using Yamaha's just like you are but a few steps up the line. I used to use Onkyo but something always went wrong. I'm happy with the Yamahas and I have a second set of fronts mounted high and the Yamaha lets me program them as presence speakers. I also have a pair of speakers on my patio but it would have cost me quite a bit more to buy receivers that would power 9.1 inside and 2 outside as well. the economy solution turned out to be to run from zone 2 rca outputs to a second amp and I bought used 50 w speakercraft 2 channels amps for this purpose and they work great. a yamaha 1000 receiver with a 2 channel amp is a lot less money than a yamaha 2000 receiver.

I had some left over pieces of rubber flooring from an exercise area and I have one under the sub.

I have an RX-A1000. What problem are you having? Basically you set up all the speakers by plugging in an included microphone and going into setup. If the levels don't suit you, and I needed to make the surround speakers louder on mine, there is a manual mode. with the speakers set relative to each other, you can then control the overall volume from the receiver or more likely from the remote.

You should have no trouble finding in wall speakers in white. if not, read the manuals and see if they discuss painting. I know my in ceilings are white and I remember painting having been an option.

the F20 and the F2 are essentially the same speaker. you can find either on eBay. I have F-20's with a C-2 in my rec room system and I'm very happy with it. the F30 would be better still but I saved the money. I have no idea whether the KF models are simply relabeled F models but if the 26 is similar to the F2 and the 28 is similar to the F3, I'd be comfortable basing a comparison on those models and then buying the corresponding F model. If you can't tell much difference between the KF26 and 28, then you won't tell much difference between the F2 and 3 either.

I've been very happy with Yamaha. I've had my share of troubles with Onkyo and have given up on them. check out eBay. in the aventage line a model number that ends with 00 is two years old, 10 is last years model, and 20 is the current model. you'd have to check the specs but I think 3D was included in last year's 10's. sounds like a 720 might meet your needs and budget. you can get an 810 for about the same price though so check all the specs. I meant to buy a 2010 myself to replace my RX-v633 when the 2020's came out but I dilly dallyed and they seem to have all been sold. I keep watching. the 2020's are currently over my budget. I'm looking at the 20x0's because I want a 9.2 so I can power zone 2 speakers without a separate amp. I do have a separate zone 2 amp on my 633 but my plan is to move it to my 1000 when I upgrade. I should add that I'm using what Yamaha calls presence speakers with the 633 which means I have 5 fronts. the 10x0 will support zone 2 or presence but not both unless you use a separate amp. I think the presence speakers add a lot and I'll be adding a pair to my 1000 when I upgrade. the 30x0's support three zones or even more fronts.

You could drop down to the Synergy line and meet that budget. there is a 5.1 system on eBay with F-3 fronts, a C-2 center and a pair of S-2 rears with a sub thrown in for under $1700. I have a similar system with F-2's instead of 3's and a pair of ceiling speakers in the middle to make it 7.1 and I'm very happy.

I bought a pair of F-20's on EBay at a reasonable price. The listing said F-2 but they shipped the current model. I'm happy. seller was sound_distributors.

thanks for posting that. I acquired my Klipsch speakers a pair or two at a time. the very first pair I bought were S-2's and I used them as fronts in a 5.1 system with Bose 161 rears. the store had S-2's and B-2's on display and I listened to both and thought the S's sounded better than the B's. neither I nor the salesmen knew anything about the numbers. later when I was exchanging emails with Klipsch support they told me that I really shouldn't have been using them as fronts. eventually I upgraded and bought a pair of SLX's for the front and moved the S-2's to the rear and the Bose system to the basement. while I've always been happy with my SLX's, I was never unhappy with the sound of the S-2's when I had them out of place in the front. you are sure right that it never hurts to try anything and to see how you like it in your room. I haven't seen that on my system. I now have my old SLX's mounted high with B-2's low and the sound is balanced. maybe I'll see it in my secondary system when I add highs over my F-20's. the speakers in my setup that have the least effect are the far rears. so much stuff is 5.1 and so little is true 7.1 that they're unused most of the time. that could be a function of the receiver though. I think my current Yamahas may use a different sound pattern than my prior Onkyo did.

sure there are limits. you probably won't notice that you have one front speaker 2' farther from the receiver than the other because the run is short enough that you won't have much drop anyway. but run two ceiling speakers with 18 guage wire and have one be a 50' run and the other only 20' and you're taking a chance. perhaps getting good wire from mono-price instead of the RadioShack stuff will avoid the problem but I prefer to cut both wires the length needed for the longer run just to be safe.

I'd keep them at the back or on the sides. the RS speakers are designed for surround placement (hence the S) and dispurse the sound a lot from side to side. you want to stick with speakers in front that push all the sound straight out. your RF-82's are made to go in front and I'd keep them there. I can't comment on which of the other speakers to use where as I have no personal experience with models that good. I've got 9.1 in one room and I really like it. while they talk about the benefit of the extra speakers for movies, I find it really enhances everyday TV sound. most content is 5.1 and so the rear surrounds really don't get much work while the extra speakers up front are in contstant use as my Yamaha receiver somehow divides the front sound. my receiver is technically only 7.1 and the front highs are what Yamaha calls presence speakers meaning there isn't truly a separate amplifier powering them so maybe it isn't right to call it a 9.1 system but I like it.

I've moved to Yamaha. There are some good deals to be found on last year's models.IPod connectivity will vary. some models need an adapter. some now have USB connection. some have internet connections and can find all our tunes on your computer.

if your receiver won't balance the gains, you'll need to make sure that the wiring to each speaker is the same length even if one is closer to the receiver than the other. if one has a shorter wire than the other, it will be louder. I have Synergy speakers in my ceilings. in the rec room I have the round model as surrounds and in the great room I have the rectangular in wall model mounted in the ceiling both as surrounds and rear surrounds. I think the model numbers are KHC-6 and KHW-5. you can adjust the direction that the center cone points (I'm sure that's right on the round ones and I think that's right on the rectangular ones too) so you'd point the one that is nearer you straight down or even away from you and point the further one angled toward you. Klipsch actually suggests pointing the cones at the side walls so the sound bounces off them.

I have a preference for staying within a line for speakers and would have gone witha reference sub but if one speaker is going to be different I suppose the sub is the one least likely to cause a problem. I have synergy myself and when I asked the guys at Klipsch about using a reference set for front highs they suggested I stay within the synergy line even though the references are a higher quality line. staying matched apparently matters more than you might think. I used to be a big Onkyo fan but have moved on to Yamaha. I was wiring our remodeled rec room and decided to buy a 2 channel Onkyo just for the outside speakers rather than upgraded my old Onkyo. well on the same day my old Onkyo decided to stop playing the rear surrounds and the new one was DOA. I sent the new one back and ordered a last year's Yamaha at half the price of this year's model and it's been great. I looked at Pioneer which I loved back in the day but they refuse to warrant their premium stuff if you buy it online.

just be sure to listen to everything before you settle on the G's. your reference stuff is a step up from my synergies. I have the impression that the G's may be a step down in audio although a step up in fashion. I haven't seen more than pictures but I think they were designed for the market that wants speakers mounted on the wall by a flat screen TV. your other stuff is serious audiophile quality. let's hope we hear from some Gallery users before you have to decide. if wall mount is the issue, you might see if you can find some RVX-42's on EBay or the like.

better to stay in your RS line than mix Galleries. I think you made a good decision going with smaller rears than your fronts but you do want everything from the same line. my speakers are all Synergy and I asked Klipsch about using Reference or Galleries for front highs and they were pretty strong about staying within the Synergy line and not mixing. Klipsch also tends to make their surround speakers so that the sound has a wide pattern but they don't recommend them up front. in front the sound comes straight toward you rather than out the side of the speakers. if you can find RF or RC 52's at similar prices to what you found the RS-52's, they'll probably be a better match than Galleries.

Klipsch is telling me to stick with Synergy so unless I can get a deal on some SLX's it looks like a choice between the various B's. my F2's are my most recent addition and I decided I could go with 2's rather than 3's and get a second sub if they lacked bass. they don't. I'm thinking the B2's would be quite enough given that everything else in the system is at the 2 level. I might even be able to get by with B-10's. I agree it would be a choice between building a shelf and buying some mounts which could be tilted.

My rec room system is all Synergy. It is 7.1 but I'm thinking of adding front high speakers to make it 9.1. current setup is F-20's in front. C-2 center. KHC-6's in ceiling surround. S-2's in back. KHW-12 sub. anyone have anything similar with two more setup as what Yamaha calls presence speakers? I have a similar setup in my family room and there I have a pair of SLX's high and B-3's low. finding more SLX's for the rec room is an option. so are B-somethings although the rear ports bother me when wall mounted. then there are the new Gallery speakers as well as some Reference LCR's. opinions welcome but I'd really like to hear from someone who tried something similar and can tell me actual results.

just press the Help button on your remote and it'll turn things off and on to get to what it expects. for example, when you program your remote it will think everything is off. if that isn't true, press help and it'll try to turn things off and then if you say that didn't fix the problem it will show you the devices one by one and ask if they are off. that's usually easier than finding the power buttons on the various devices.

I have several. the Harmony One is the best one I have but I have some cheaper models too that I use in other rooms and they all have similar functionality with the differences being whether you have buttons with fixed names for the activities (watch tv, watch a movie, etc.) or if they show up in a screen with names you can assign. if you are going to run everything through a receiver, they have been a great answer to getting all the necessary commands on one remote. now the newest receivers are coming with android and iphone applications and I haven't played with them yet. anyway I got my Harmony One at Costco at a price I thought was good at the time. when I needed more I looked around online and found that places like Tiger Direct often have some pretty cheap options. I think I got one of mine for as little as $20.

I have some of the original Synergy Speakers that Best Buy carried a few years ago. I got some at Best Buy and some off the web after Best Buy stopped carrying them. Looks like they've added a zero to the part numbers and come out with a new line for BB. works for me. the other lines are still out there if you want to spend more.

You can get a Quintet SL at Vann's right now with a free sub. I'm looking at it hard. I'm setting up a second setup for a lake house we're buying. My current setup has the older LCR speakers as fronts with a C2 in the middle, S2's in back, KHC-6 ceiling speakers on the sides and the older KSW-12 and I'm very happy with it. I'm thinking a Quintet SL with a Synergy Sub would be fine. you probably don't need to spend the extra for the RW sub. a KSW-12 or a SUB-12 would be fine. My problem is how to expand the Quintet (or Cinema 6) to 7.1. the problem is compounded by a possible need to center mount the side speakers. I don't need in ceiling speakers just something that I can mount there. so is there a surround speaker in equivalent price and quality that would work? I managed to ceiling mount my S-2's although at home the ceiling is plywood and not drywall so there was minimal danger of the bracket falling. I forget where I got the brackets though and getting them to attach to the keyholes was a bit of a bother. but S-2's seem like overkill for a Quintet or Cineman 6 system. anyone got a recommendation for another pair of speakers to fill out a Quintet SL or Cinema 6 to 7.1?

I have a very similar setup with an Onkyo 605 receiver. I started with a C-2 center and S-2 fronts even though they shouldn't be in front. I got them because I needed to wall mount the fronts and those were the best I could find locally. Eventually I got talked into moving the S-2's to the read and getting new fronts. Like you I needed ceiling mounts on the sides and went with the KHC-6 which you can find at Best-Buy. My subwoofer is a KSW-12 just like you are looking at. That's not the current model but it is making me happy and I bought it online at a substantial discount from Vann's. Which brings me to my fronts. I bought a pair of SLX wall mounts from Vann's. They are kind of the big brothers to the Quintet's you are looking at. Unfortunately a quick look at Vann's didn't show any. Maybe they sold out. They were a great buy at a little over $100 a piece. I see them on Amazon but for twice what I paid. If you could find the SLX for what I paid, you could get seven of them and add a sub and you'd be happy. I suppose you could call Vann's and see if they have any left.