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I contacted klipsch and they feel I am underpowering the fronts. Anyway I set the crossovers to 120hz to try now to see if that helps. I don't think it is the woofers. I'm pretty positive it's the horns. They said the underpowering is causing distortion at higher volumes. This is my third receiver in like 6 months. Lol. I'm out of money to get a new one again.

I will try disconnecting the jumpers tonight and run just the tweeter to see how they respond. As far as levels, yes I have run the levels up a bit from the room correction since I got them and just ran at lower volume. I now have them at the audessy settings and higher volume to compensate. I don't hear it all the time at that volume, just during certain scenes with explosions. Avr is a Denon avr-1912. Rated at 90w per channel. Only real changes recently were moving the towers outward and toeing in a bit and upgraded the surrounds and the. Ran Audessy again to recalibrate and left at those settings and just bumped the center level a little

Could it be due to the woofers pushing too much air in the cabin and bottoming out the tweeters? I'm almost positive it's not a loose connection and fairly positive it is th tweets making the noises. I have listened to other items much higher volume. Maybe the quality of that part of the demo wasn't the greatest?

I just rearranged some things over the last couple days with my setup and happened to find a Lucas demo disc for DTS and DD testing. I ran through one of the demos where it shows some star wars tie fighter scenes. In the one scene there is an explosion that I can hear through my tweeters in my KF26's up front. I thought I heard this before on some other discs when tons of explosions and action was going on, but thought it was my imagination. Any idea why this is happening? Are the tweeters just not handling the load? Or are too low of frequencies getting to them somehow? I was under the assumption they were internally crossed over inside the cabinet? I tried biamping them to see if that would help and did not. Setup consists of KF26's up front, KC25 for center and KS14's I just got for the surrounds this week. Denon 1912 for power All crossed over at 80hz. I set to 120 also to test and still same issue. Audessy actually set them all to large and crossed over to like 40-60hz, but I set them back to small and 80hz as per some other research I did explaining to let the sub do most of the work. Any ideas?

OP, I will tell you from experience that I have with a similar setup. . . .Do not run that reciever outside of 5.1/zone2 mode. Once you switch to biamp or 7.1 the volume will cut literally in half. I have called Denon on multiple occasions and they are clueless. so I gave up on biamping. As far as the volume goes, I have been learning more as I go, but had similar concerns as you do. I have found that when Audessy runs, it will throw your levels to negatives. You can bump the channel volume, but I think I read that 0 is reference level, so to adjust the test tones to be 75 or 85 db at reference level and that is "properly" setup I guess. Also the dynamic volume thing is another thing to look at. If off, it will bring the volume down. If you select anything else, the volume goes up, which I do not understand and Denon has yet to respond technically to me about. They sound like a bunch of clueless stoned teenagers so I gave up with them.

Your right, they prob should match so the center channel does not drown the rest out. Its hard to tell if its too much though IMO. I dont have it all optimally setup and tuned yet. Sounds damn good both ways though so its a toss up if I should keep it and look ugly and sound brighter, or match sound and appearance and sell it. I dont have an extra channel on my reciever for another center channel for the rear. 5.1 oldness.

I just got a Quintet 2 HT setup and a Sub-10 sub. The nice thing with the auction I won on the Quintets is they came with a C2 center channel too. I tried them out with both and the C2 is deffinately brighter by far. Havent gotten a chance to crank it much yet. Problem is the C2 is HUGE and looks kind of out of place. Not sure if I should keep this thing and keep the Quint center as a backup just in case, or sell it and use the Quint center channel? Opinions?