[My Klipsch Success Story!]

LOL good one!mine wasnt quite so interesting, i had someone demo them for me in the store , of course this was not the ideal place for them where all the customers were walking by and people workin in desks all around, the salesperson only brought the volume to 40% and i said ok thats good enough for me. i brought them home and they sounded 300000000 times better. I was very happy, my dad had never heard of klipsch nor was he easily impressed we had a shitty home stereo before and when i pluged it into my panasonic diskman and played Sultans of Swing by the Dire Straits, he literally sai:. "holy $@%#" and i dont hear him swear very often so i think he was impressed, and so were all my friends to come over after i bought them. they were like ..

"THX wha???!! dayum! thats too loud!!" of course all my friends want a set now. meh! followers! (i dont blame them though hehe)

[Hofy's Duct Tape Mounting System (patent pending)]

not showing up for me either!

im dieing to see what this looks like...

[Sub placment is crucial ! IMO]

Also i forgot to add that i tried them at my friends house for a party, it took about 20 min to find an ideal location for sub, his room acoustics sucked, oh well, i guess im lucky.

if anyone has any tips or ideas of where is the sweet spot for the sub please let me know, (im just going by ear)

[Curse these ProMedia's...]

have you been waiting on the 4.1's or the v2.400's?

[Sub placment is crucial ! IMO]

First id like to say hello to everyone. *waves*

I'm new to the forums. I bought the v2.400's for X-Xmas and I'm extremely happy with them. although I cant say the same for my parents, Ex. broken mirror in their room. and the constant boom boom boom you hear from downstairs.

I'll get to my point about the sub placement in a sec here.. just want to give my 2cents on some of the other things talked ab00t in this topic.

people that talk about the crackling sound from the preamp, I noticed this slightly and it went away when I unplugged system and turned volume knob up/down over and over for a while.

as far as the mid range goes, that's what Eq's are for. Keep reminding yourself that these are multimedia computer speakers... Remember the speakers that came with computers back in 1995? Those were a joke, thanks to klipsch for changing the whole speakers for computers sounding like children's cheap boom box's to decent sounding HT(I have to say this cause all those audiophiles will attack me!).

one thing I really noticed was how different the system sounded in 4 diff locations.

- my room (where they are now)

sub placement was crucial I ended up putting the sub underneath my corner desk, with the front port facing about 4" away from the wall. this seemed to amplify the bass more at the recommended THX setting for me. there were some spots in my room where it sounded like there was NO bass at all! hehe must be something to do with rarefaction overlapping or a silent node, (I'm in HS so I am not very knowledgeable with this stuff)

in the corner opposite to me desk the bass was twice as loud, must be cause of twice the amp caused by 2 compressions. (I'm guessing here)

- living room

where I first tried them out, (sounded amazing, since low freq waves are longer , the bass sounded really good in the larger living room. I often lug down my speakers from upstairs to watch a cool dvd movie with friends (now I got to convince dad to get a set of his own!)

- small sun room/study room

sounded extremely clear and very tight punchy bass! (best sounding place that I tested.)

- basement

lets just say this was the worst location of the ones I tested. concrete floor cant help...I think

so if you are not happy with your subwoofer volume levels or if it is too "boomy/muddy" try changing the position of the sub.

sorry if anything I said was inaccurate, I'm still learning a lot about sound physics etc..

[Curse these ProMedia's...]

lol! indeed!

[What's the best Basstrack for showing these Klipschmeisters off?]

!!! nice tunes... i really like that flat beat song... yikes talk about MAD bass

here are some i found to have extreme bass.

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123456 bass (subwoofer test)

altern 8 - give it to baby

Bass - - Test Very Loud Compilation of

Bass - Extreme Woofer Test

Bass - Illegal Bass - Bass Outlaws - Stereo Bass (Extreme Woofer Test)

Bass - Ultimate Subwoofer Test

Bass 305 - Techno Bass

Bass 305 - Turntable Terrorism

Bass Outlaws - Technoquad

bass test - 035hz.mp3

bass test - 100hz.mp3

BASS TEST- VERY DEEP BASS

bass-track3

D.J. Bass 305 Presents... - 05 - Woofer Test 2.0 - 808xs - Bass Sound Off U.S.A

Lucasfilm Ltd. - THX Sound Effects

Sony Corporation - SDDS Theater Sound

Sony Dolby Digital - Intro

Sound Effects - THX Train Effect

SubWoofer Excursion Test - SubWoofer Excursion Test

Techmaster P.E.B. - Bassgasm (Ultimate Woofer Test

Techmaster P.E.B. - My Computers (Ultimate Tweeter

Techmaster P.E.B. - WORLD'S DEEPEST BASS (Extreme Woofer Test)

THX

THX - Dolby DTS

THX - Dolby DTS - Jurassic Park

THX - Dolby SDDS

THX - OMNIMAX

THX Bass Test - I Love Big Speakers

THX Dolby Sound Effects

THX-Simpsons(128kbps)

Ultimate Sub Woofer Test

thank you copy and paste!

[Hofy's Duct Tape Mounting System (patent pending)]

hey if its good enough for apollo 13 and the space shuttle , its good enough for klipsch.