Bounty013

Am I understanding right, your in the military stationed in Dubai? Thats cool!!!!!

OK, so this thing has taken a life of its own. I work in home theaters and as I have previously posted, my own system has given me more problems than I have ever had installing professionally. So I finally have eveything tweaked and I had a realization and I'm not sure how many people have had the same problem. I power everything with a Denon 2308CI. I had posted earlier that I gave my cheapy sub away, but mow I have it back. Low and behold, as soon as I turn the sub setting to on, set the sub settings to LFE only and set my LFE cross to 80 Hz, vioala, almost all bass is gone. I have been extremely frustrated as I have been having this same problem. The only way to get any bass response wass to set the sub setting to LFE-Main and set all my crossoverfreqs toat least 100. Then I got decent bas, but still not as much as I had running the F-2s by themselves. At this point I should mention that I have had all my slipsch bi-wired, center included. This morning I got the bright idea to bi-am the f-2s and, holy crap!!!!! I change my settings back to LFE only and turned my lfe cross back to 80, leave my mains set to large and all of a sudden I think the sheetrock is going to come off the studs. This has got to have been the single most noticeable difference in performance I have done so far. I am actually to a point that I don't think I can find anything else to tweak. The whole point to this is a simple question. Has anyone else had this much difficulty getting the 2308 or similar receiver to properly drive the F-2s and c-2s? I absolutely love Denon's receivers, but this seemed a little bit complicated. Or is it just that I was overlooking commonly known answers because it was "my system and it should just magically sound wonderfull"?

And this is why I have said for years that the Home Theater Technician's best friend is a good forum, and I'm pretty sure this has to be among the finest I have ever participated in. Mr Chapman, I do believe you have to be a genius. Why I didn't think to play with the dynamic range controls is beyon me. After setting the DRC to low, the popping took more power to reproduce. Setting it to med allowed sounds at well above my max listening level to reproduce perfectly. It now takes almost 10dB more to get the popping. Thank you very much for your fast relpy!!!!

I have to say, as much as I love the custom logo, I hate to see that MAC amp sitting out like that. Kind of depressing!

Let me start by stating my jealousy!! I only wish I could afford that many floorstanders. Ideally, you want the exact same speaker for every channel. Unfortunately in most set-ups, the center channel being identical is a problem... enter special center channel speaker designs. One of the first problems you will run into is the center channel itself. The c-2 is a little small to match to your lef and rights as F-3's. Howver, a simple tweak to the center channel level in your receiver can easily correct this. Problem number 2, and I tell you this could be a real problem, you might see an eviction notice on your door fairly quickly. These are high powered speakers that are VERY loud! Especiall with the array of floor standers you have amassed. I think that this system will sound fantastic, but watch out for your neighbors and landlord. Good luck and let us know how it comes out!

OK, lets see if I can explain the circumstances. I used to have an old sony 8" sub with my system. I bought a KSW-12 to replace it, discovered that the KSW sucked, so I took it back. Unfortunately I had already given away my other sub. (mistake). So I changed my system settings to show no sub and I am highly amazed how much low frequency response my F-2s actually have. I had never set the receiver to "no sub" before so I hadn't experienced the low freq handling of my speakers until this point. However, No I have a new problem. When watching some movies fairly loudly, (the beginning of Aliens vs Predator:Requiem when the space ship passes in front of the camera for example) the speakers roar to live with room filling bass until they produce two very distinct and very loud snaps/pops! Scared the crap out of me. I was watching the new INdiana Jones earlier and got the same thing, only this time it was far more than 2 pops. They were so loud that my wife jumped in another room. I am fairly concerned and really curious what this is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I haven't explained well enough, I appologize. Please let me know what other info you might need. Thanks guys in advance!!

Let me start by saying that I have a very small living room. I am in a rent duplex until we build our new house next year. I am however, loving all my new Klipsch!!! Disclaimer: I know that for a Home Theater Tech my wires should be neater. Sorry. I will get around to pulling it all out and re-doing all the wiring at some point, but until then, I'm Lazy!!!!

I'll be honest,your problem sounds to me like an HDCP problem. I have had the same problem with older HD-DVR cable and sat boxes. The problem seems to lie with HDMI testing. One of the co-inventors of HDMI Jano Banks released an article about the lack of proper HDMI testing. This issue seems to have sort of worked itself out to an extent, but one thing you can try to eliminate or at least identify the problem is run an extra digital audio cable, be it fiber or coax digital to the receiver. Set your input settings to use the fiber or coax for your audio source and see if the problem remains. My bet would be that you would have no further problems and you qill still get your digital sound signals equal to HDMI. Just my 2 cents

As far as setting up home theaters, I am pretty good, until it comes to my own! I'm not sure what the problem is, but I just can't seem to get it right. The Denon's built in Audyssey MultiEQ does a fantastic job of cleaning up the sound and providing for a perfectly clear, crisp sound. My problem seems to be power. Every time I run the Audyssey setup, I loose almost all bass. I am one of those guys that loves to rattle pictures off the walls. When something blows up, I want to feel like my house is going to fall down. With my old, and I mean old, Yamaha PLII receiver, I had this earth shattering sound with an old pair of Acoustic Research 8" Bookshelve 2-ways. They sounded great. Then I upgrade to the Denon, which I love for the clarity. Then I got my F-2's. Then I got my C-2 and am very happy, but I just can't seem to get that explosiveness back. After playing with crossover levels, making sure that the center is set to small, fronts set to large, I get a lot of my bass back. But I'm not really sure that it sounds as powerful as I think it should. Any tips?? I'd sure love to hear any ideas. Thanks in advance.