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  1. Again thank you for your help. I am going to try and catch a Space-A hop to Germany today. I want to attend Oktoberfest. So, I may be out of country for awhile. When I return back home, I run the Audssey function again. I was looking in my Denon manual and it says...Run at LEAST 6 locations. So, the 3 I did was not adequate
  2. Thank you for the link to the Audyssey setup information. David
  3. I think my Denon 4310 has 9 Audyssey locations.!!! I only used 3. OMG!! I have to use all 9! Ok. Also, I will use a tripod. I have a Gitzo Carbon Fiber tripod. As I recall, the only speaker that were set to 'large' were the two front RF 83s. I beleive even the RF 62 surround speakrs were set to small. OK..I will set all the speaker small. (Does this INCLUDE THE SUB ??) The guy at the Hi End Audio store said I should feed both the Center Channel and the LFE signal to the subwoffer. Do you agree that my Klipsch DSW 15 subwoofer should receive the Center and LFE signals??? (I need to find out how to do all this stuff....the Denon 4310 manual is 112 pages. Also, the guy at the Audio Store said, The cross over frequency for the Sub in the Denon should be 80 Hz and not 40 Hz. He also said the Denon has a volume control in the AVR that controls the volume of the subwoofer. I have a lot to study and learn about the new Denon AVR 4310.
  4. I have the Sony DVD player, Model Number:DVP-NC85H (purchased in 2006), connected to the Denon 4310 using an HDMI cable. Since the 4310 only has one HDMI cable for a CD/DVD player, and my new Soney Blu Ray 360 deck is connected to that input via DVD, I connected the Sony DVD player to the HDP HDMI input, which is next to the DVD input.
  5. I used a Sony 5-CD DVD player I purchased in 2006. I am using Monster XP speaker cables with banana plugs. (not soldered - screw on) I was driving the FR-83s very hard in two channel mode. Something called Direct Stereo. Apparently in this setting, the Denon AVR does not do any signal processiong and just passes the signal to the amp section. I have never owned any piece of electronics as sophisticated as the preamp section of this Denon AVR 4310. So, I have a lot to learn. However, the RF-82s in the dealer showroom exhibited the same imability to reporduce the Very High Trumpet notes. Please note the, the volume in the dealer showroom was lower than the volume setting I had on my Denon when I tried to play Maria.
  6. I did run the Audssey function. I am very new to this Denon AVR 4310 and it was almost overwhelming. I need to rerun the Audssey funciton again. Audssey averaged 3 microphone locations to come up with the parameters it set. I noticed that one of the RF-83 was set to something like -12.8 db. I have never owned an AV receiver as sophiscated as the new Denon 4310. The manual is like 130 pages. I tried to read it and some of the sentences are like reading the German philosophers...
  7. I have recently assembled my first home theater system. I have a Denon 4310 AV receiver driving Klipsch RF 83s, All the other speakers are also Klipsch. The very first CD I played on my Sony DVD was a Maynard Fergurson recording of Maria. Maynard reaches the stratosphere on this recording and I suspect that the recording mike may not have been capable of fully capturing the live spectrum. Anyway, I turned the volumn up on my Denon 4310 and the FR-83 tweeter just could not produce the very high frequency sound. The speaker basically went blaaaaaaa. I got in my car and drove to the closest high end Audio retailer and asked if they would let me listen to the DC track on one of their systems to see if the 'problem' was the CD recording, and not my RF-83s. The system they used had $4.000.00 ea FOCAL towers with probably $15,000.00 in McIntosh CD, preamp and amp electronics. This rig reporduced the very high frequencies almost perfectly. ( Again, I suspect the Maria chart on the CD does not faithfly capture the actual very high trumpet performance.) I told the salesman that if I gave my RF 83s a zero rating for their inability to reporduce the very high notes, then I would have to give their system a 7 with a question as to if the distortion that their system displayed was due to the quality of the CD....or....simply the inability of their system to reproduce the very high notes. (On the FOCALS you could still hear some distortion, however, the FOCALs were able to at least render most of the very high trumpet notes.) Yes, I know, my electronics, Denon AVR 4310 is not the same quality as $15.000.00 worth of McIntosih electronics. However, I am greatly disapointed that dear old Maynard's screeching is out of my reach using my 'new' RF 83s. This same dealer had an RF 82 which was fed by a sparate integrated amp which had a small tube in it's output stage. Yes, the RF 82s exhibited the same inability to reproduce the very high trumpet notes. The conclusion is that the tweeters on my RF 83 just cannot reporduce Maynard's screeching trumpet. I played some Buddy Rich big band charts on my 'new system' and this charts seemed to sound A-OK. The salesman at the high end Audio store said that he doubted, if I upgraded to the Cornwalls, that they could faithfully reproduce Maynards very high trumpet notes either. His opinion is that the Klipsch tweeters just cannnot reproduce this part of the audio spectrum. I don't listen to Maynard very often, for his upper trumpet notes are just way too high for prolonged listenting, in my opinion. However, it is very disappointing to spend my limited budget on the RF 83s and then find out they simply cannot reporduce these very high notes. I guess they cannot produce the 1, 2nd and 3rd harmonics of lower frequencies.
  8. Hi I have on order two RS-62 Surround speakers. They weigh 28 lbs each. I am looking for a recommendation for speaker stands to hold these two speakers. I guess they mount from the rear. Also, I guess I could just sit them on the stands. I think attaching them to the stands would be the safest thing to do. Thank you for your help. David James in Fairfax, VA (703) 961-9151
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