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Like the Velcro idea. Since my area is walled in on three sides and cables are hard to see I use a great insulator that can be cut or drilled as required a 2 x 4. I convince myself that seperating power cords and speaker cables from interconnects is a sonic improvement. In the past when ever a hum creeped in, I would move the power cables until stopped. Repeated this for a couple years until installing power cords under a 2 x 4 that was raised up off the floor by a couple of smaller 2 x 4s. Interconnects lay on top of 2 x 4. Some sell wood blocks designed for raising cables off the floor at $250 each, $2.50 2 x 4 seems get the job done last three years no hum.

Actually I much prefer my RC-7 with my RF-5's, they are almost the same speakers, same woofers and horn but a slightly larger tweeter in the RC-7. The RC-7's cabinet is much better suited for a center channel for both looks and not needing to have the display too high. Another RF-5 would work well behind an acoustically transparent screen but otherwise I feel a tall tower makes a terrible center channel speaker. As for matching the sound and blending together I don't think I have ever heard a better matching set of fronts and center as the RF-5 RC-7 combo. Both Posts are right: 1) Best acoustical match possible is to have 3 identical speakers, at same height behind a Screen - Like Most Movie Theaters. 2) If AT Screen/Projector is not possible a matching Center speaker is best. My post is based on one priority - Acoustics. As always WAF, Wife Acceptance Factor - wife's view of aesthetics, plays a role, along with fitting all pieces into the room. I have listened to RF-7s in Stereo, great speakers. I would assume RC-7 is great as a center for RF-5s. For HT I use the RS-7s as surrounds with La Scalas. Surprisingly good match to three modified La Scalas Surrounds are not as difficult to match as front three speakers​For some reason sounds ahead moving side to side are easier to detect differences than difference from front to back or back to front. In my system a RC-7 would probably be a decent match as a center but not as good as the RC-7 would match the RF-5s.

Oldenough nailed it. Trick is finding space. Suffered many years without a matching center until getting a Projector & AT Screen. Lucky to have a room that allows 3 Big speakers behind a screen.Even with an Academy or Heresy with Forte IIs combos never had a great center match until all three fronts are the same see these links: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=89614 http://www.seymourav.com/centerbestpractice.asp

FYI format ratio matters. I have a constant height screen due to room limitations and WAF. Works good for TV/sports at 80 inches, diagonal for 16:9, then 2.35:1 movies are more immersive at 100 inches. Actually prefer constant height for this reason, movies are bigger than TV. Will this be for TV, Movies or both? If mainly for TV you may want to do the opposite of me and go constant width to maximize 16:9 TV and only loose a small amount when watching a movie..

AT does matter they are great, love mine but they all have a min view distance. At 14 feet you should be fine but check before buying. When going to the local theater do you sit in Front? Back? Use this to determine viewing angle that you like. Then do the math. For me 100" screen diagonal at 9' works perfect, round 40 degree angle. Notice how screen diagonal and view distance in inches are close. http://www.thx.com/professional/cinema-certification/thx-certified-cinema-screen-placement/

3 mono amps. . .

Getting the couch a foot or two away from the wall might help the bass.

Ditto and forte distance from side and back walls is important. If there is room to adjust the a fortes location ok.

Great tip from Indy - I put my mids an tweets in top of the cabinet to get them to ear leve. Bass next to a short wall and not toed with mids and tweets toed in gave me the best sound.

No substitute for a good pre combined with quality amps. . . Many combos will work on a budget for HT, used Onkyo for a pre and used Adcom amps are hard to beat. Used that combo until putting the emphasis on music instead of HT.

Three front speaker the same is always the best. Do you have room a third Chorus? AT screen?

From THX Surround Left & Right Speakers (SL & SR): Place the SL & SR speakers between 90° to 110° to each side and 2 feet or higher above the listener. The SL & SR speakers recreate the enveloping sound and intense special effects that you experience in the cinema. A few feet to the side and a little behind does trick, pointing straight down not so good. . . http://www.thx.com/consumer/home-entertainment/home-theater/surround-sound-speaker-set-up/

Black Hawk Down Braveheart Wonderland Saving Private Ryan Apocalypto Open Range Tombstone Avatar The Chronicles of Riddick No Country for Old Men Heat Inglourious Basterds The Fifth Element I could probably put together a really long list, of course every theater room needs the collections of Batman, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Godfather, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Alien. I put in a second On "Fifth Element" and add Shawshenk Redemption, Transformers, Hunt for Red October and Star Wars series on BluRay.

Lip-sync 90% fixed on main system and lip-sync is much better then my Onkyo set-up in the wife's room.

Is it just me or does this picture make the room look small? The stone on the side is 3ft wide, screen is 130" diagonal for scale. Stone looks great. I sit 115" from 100" screen, I like the big screen. Go with what looks right when watching a movie at the cost of making the room feel cozy. . . THX has some good recommendations on viewing angles.

Thanks Trevmerrill, running an Oppo-105 straight to the amps instead of using Oppo-95 and McIntosh preamp, sounds just a little better then when you stopped by. Learned how to adjust the 105 on the AVS forum, and moved the screen back a few inchs, picture is much sharper now. 100" screen sitting just under 10 feet away. Using Eco mode and picture is still bright after 3,000 hours on the bulb. Stop by for a brew to see if you agree. +1 for Seymour AT screens.

Epson 6020 fot HT in the basement 80" for TV, 100" for 2.35 movies. 50" Plasma LG - Kids gaming in basement. 52" Sony LCD - Wife's sun room (Onkyo and monitor audio)

No, firmware update helped. Another ffirmware update to address Lipsync is due out week after next. Got a tip off AVS replaced 6' HDMI cord with Radio Shack HDMI cord problem solved for last hour multiple channels. Only worked for a couple of hours after a hard reset . . . Lip sync still off just not as much.

No, firmware update helped. Another ffirmware update to address Lipsync is due out week after next. Got a tip off AVS replaced 6' HDMI cord with Radio Shack HDMI cord problem solved for last hour multiple channels.

Have you considered an AT screen? 1) Center matches L & R 2) Center Channel Sound comes from center of screen and sounds much more realistic, especially voices.

I agree RC35 would be a good match, best match would be another RF35. WAF and room layout usually make having all three front Speakers the same difficult.

Spliting Bass Bin from mids is the best way to go. Point the bass bins straight out and along the "side walls" then toe mids and tweeters, aimed at main listening position. Bass frequencies are helped corners, mids and above are not, so toeing them in helps.

No, firmware update helped. Another ffirmware update to address Lipsync is due out week after next.

Front vs. Rear Port: The other guys have more experiance with speakers and are probably right. From a Mechanical Enginnering standpoint they are correct. There would be verry little, read no difference, in total output/damping factor front versus back - Not enough tight bends to change damping if port area is the same. The only variable would be if ported out the back, distance to rear the wall could be an issue, if too close the flow of air could be slowed enough to affect the sound. Mids on Top: Sounds like you have seen posts from indyfan and checking out what Volti audio is doing. One of best mods for La Scalas. For two channel it puts the vocals etc. at the correct height. For movies on my system the sound is more realistic - comes out the screen instead of below the screen. Also allows bass bins to point along the wall and mids to be toed in towards main listening position. Speaker placement and getting lucky with room geomerty has almost eliminated my need for porting, but I do have a sub. Sub is mainly for movies but does help on some music.