darinp

HEY Amy!! Great to see you around!

I suppose i'm one of the panic-buyers, post election. Since leaving Active Duty army i've had my eye on an AR15 or variant, as well as looking for a good self/home defense pistol. Over the past few months i decided on the XD40 pistol and a build-it-yourself M4/AR15 kit. After getting things in and ready, I brought parts of my family out to familiarize themselves. Here's my daughter squeazing off a few rounds from the M4: My squeazing off a few w/ the .40 Showing my kids the damage difference between a .22, a .40, and a 12 guage: My daughter w/ a .22 revolver (4 out of 6)

Thanks for being good sports, folks.

... Good thing we're renting.

So - right. Ya know? i'm a long-time Klipsch owner. In 1993 i purchased a set of Forte IIs from the Sight and Sound store (on base) in Mainz, Germany while stationed with the Army. Prior, my family had owned a couple pair at various times. I really loved those speakers. I've had my share of Klipsch computer audio as well. I think I had 3 of the 8" subs, daisy-chained at one point. I've even photoshopped a few Klipsch employees in 'compromising' positions while doing graphics/photos for an online computer hardware magazine. Heck, i've even MET a few of them at GDFest - Amy still work there? Fast forward to last week when a great-looking set of speakers showed up at my door - the RF-62 Theatre system. Now, we've only been in this house about one week - still have scores of boxes and packing material laying around. So - I get things set up with my very modest home theatre system. I'm using a Harman-Kardon receiver to power things - probably 50W per channel. So - after all the wires are run i fire it up. What a piece of crap. Nothing but rattles, shakes, and vibrations. Sounds like it's full of aluminum cans and broken bits of glass. I honestly can't believe how something like this could be on the market at ANY price. Now we'll have to move again. Oh? did you think I was talking about the speakers? No, no...my HOUSE is a piece of crap. I can hear rattles and shakes from 20 feet across the room. Thanks to this system filling my house with amazingly powerful sound, I've realized my house isn't up to par. I've heard of people buying audio to fit their house...now I'll have to find a house that works better with my new audio set up. There should be a warning on the boxes from Klipsch - maybe a waiver: "Caution - using these products may reveal difficiencies in the build quality of your house. Before buying a house, you should first install these speakers and listen to a major motion picture in HD, to ensure the room in which these will be located is constructed of sufficient strength and quality because these speakers kick-***." If somebody is THINKING about Klipsch home theatre stuff, just tell them this "...you'll LOVE the sound from the speakers...you may not love the sounds coming from your rattling, creeking, shaking HOUSE, however." - Darin