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youth, it wouldn't surprise me if thats the case. You spend 2+ years tweaking the shit out of the UMC-1 to get it to work properly you might as well use that to your advanatge. Its obvious they want 2 tiers of processors and that $500-$600 range is a very good nitch to compete in. On another note, the XMC-1 looks downright sexy....i want it or i think i want it.

there is a metal binding strap that connects the top and bottom positive and the top and bottom negative. That strap feeds power to both the woofers and the tweeter. As long as that strap is there, you can connect your power wires to the top or bottom or even one top and one bottom, it doesnt matter as long as that strap is there. You really only have to remove the strap if you are going to biamp your speakers or biwire (which serves the same purpose as the strap). What model receiver do you have?

fact #1: big box stores are the worst place to demo gear but its what we have to work with. Their settings are often incorrect since they are usually switxhable for different setups and the settings are never recalibrated for each system. This fact is barring hifi dealers that have individual listening areas designated for specific setups. In a place like that, usually you should be prepared to drop coin. Your receiver most likely isnt set correctly. You most likely have to set your left/right channel to the "Large" speaker setting and even better than that would be if you have the ability to set the crossover settings more appropriately. Try setting the crossover at 40, 50, or 60hz, whichever is available. Make sure you have good solid connections and that your pos/neg wires arent switched.

#willwaitfortonsofpeopletotryitbeforeiwouldeverbuyit but it looks like a good piece of machinery. Outlaw Audio just came out with a processor that is competitive to the emotiva one. http://www.outlawaudio.com/products/975.html

The KF-26 speakers are very sensitive at 97db. This means that you dont need as much power as you would if you were driving less sensitive speakers. Each 3db increase in sensitivity means you need half as much power. Vice versa, if you have speakers 3db less efficient (94 db instead of 97db), you would need twice as much power to achieve the same volume at a constant listening distance. The AVR-1613 is a very entry level receiver IMO and is priced for entry level. Everyone has different budgets and you have to work with what you have available. Your receiver, provided everything is calibrated correctly should be able to push those 2 speakers easily. Once you add more channels on that is when the tides turn. 75 watts is a good amount of power for a 97db efficiency speaker. It sounds to me like you have settings that are incorrect. Make sure your speakers are hooked up correctly. Use the left/right channel connections and make sure you didn't reverse the polarities. In some cases (design dependent of the receiver) the signals will cancel out and present degraded performance. What is you listening environment like? How far is your listening position from the speakers? Also, i wanted to note, some of things we are talking about are somewhat technical. Do not feel embarrassed if you don't understand, please please please ask if you dont understand. I dont care if you ask 3 times, i will try and explain it in different ways so that you can understand. What works for me may not for you. Also, others will chime in tohelp too! we are all apart of this forum because most of us have a passion for this hobby and enjoy seeing others enjoying their setups.

The speakers you bought have two sets of binding posts because they have the ability to be biamped or biwired. One set of binding posts is connected to the tweeter and the other is connected to the 2 woofers. There is a metal strap between the tweeter and woofer posts so that you only need to wire up 1 set of terminals. The strap creates a parallel connection and allows power to be fed to both drivers at the same time. Speaker manufacturers do this with some speakers so that the owner can power the drivers with separate amplifiers or separate channels of power within an amp. This can be a beneficial use on a speaker for a multitude of reasons. You can also biwire. Biwiring completes the same task as the binding strap but with more wires. If you remove the binding strap and connect 1 wire (neg/pos) to the top posts and 1 wire (neg/pos) to the bottom posts and then connect both wires to the same pos/neg terminal on the amplifier/receiver, uyou are creating the same parallel connection the strap does but instead of on the speaker you are doing it at the receiver/amplifier. Basically you twist the 2 positive leads together and the 2 negative leads and put it to the 1 positive on the amp/receiver and the negative to the other. Biwiring is mostly for aethetics and a selling point to the uneducated. Nothing is really gained sonically although i am sure someone swears they hear a difference. By subwoofer connection you mean the woofer terminals and its playing out of all 3 drivers because the binding strap is sending power to both sets of terminals. What model Denon do you have?

i like!!!! very nice, clean and sharp looking! I have a pair of rb-5's hiding in my closet for future use

such an awesome excure to hop into separates , check out the outlaw audio+receiver comboson their site. Personally, i think the UMC-1 is a good lil guy paired up with my outlaw 7125. Highly recommend it.

try a completely different HDMI cable

id say keep it!

I would highly recommend going the separates route. I like my Emotiva UMC-1 and i had an XPA-5 but i had a hum/hiss issues with it. I sent it in for testing and it checked out fine. I eventually sold it since there was nothing wrong with it, ought an Outlaw 7125 7x125 watt amp and havent had any issues with hum/hiss at all. Also keep inmind, i did a direct amp swap, i didnt change anything externally. The power amp does wonders for speakers. Even my marantz i have i can see its limitations with my wf-35's. An Emotiva UMC-1 and an Outlaw 7125 would run you about $1500 . I also really do like the Emotica RCA interconnects as well. I have compared them to monoprice digital coaxials and the $20 I paid per emo rca cable was well worth the money in the long run. I think they are very good quality after trying many different cables over the years in various applications. A poorly shielded RCA cable will act as an antenna btw. These cables are the lifeline between the processor and your power amp, interference isnt something you encounter in a receiver since the paths are shielded and so close under one roof that they really don't get exposed. Get 12 gauge speaker wire too from monoprice as thats a good size for most applications. You could always go larger for bragging rights...or something although not really necessary. Just a little bit of my thoughts for you!

Here ya go. Great speakers for music, just thought i'd let you all know they got them in stock. They have the cab color available as well and the center channels and surrounds. Bookshelfs dont appear to be in stock http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882780082&Tpk=82-780-082

damn, just as i suspected. The box storage method is the best haha

I look like a wire factory, i have wires everywhere. Unused and just sitting ins torage, i do use them as test cords etc or you never know when you need one. Anyone have any good space saving techniques that makes them easily accessible and easy to find?

i dont, i wouldnt really tbh. when watching a movie, you attention is not focused on the nuances of the sound as if you were listening to some good 2 channel. Yes, sure, you notice good sound versus bad but i dont think it warrants the benefits of tubes. Just my .02. If i were rich and money was no object...yeah i'd probably do it just to do it haha

i sold a pair for 375 i think or 400, dont remember.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10255&cs_id=1025503&p_id=9428&seq=1&format=2#description Anyone used redmere technology? Seems pretty neat considering strain on cables is bs and ruins ports after a while

yet another audio company down. read the blog http://blog.edesignaudio.com/?p=1792

hmm, thats look awesome, let us know what happens!!!

a 15' replica of the batmobile....awesome. I'd rather not have a themeed theater. I wouldnt mind having accents from movies and what not but not dedicate it dedicate it so hardcore. This theater came out really nicely though

i had plenty of power when i ran mine so i discount that as an issue

Setting up the rf-7 towers are some of the most challenging speakers i have ever had to setup. Their imaging is funny. For some reason, in close proximity to them you really need to give a good toe in. They are much easier to image when your listening position is further back ~10-15ft. They also need room to breathe! I have a few feet to the left and right of each speaker and i keep them about a foot from the wall. You have to understand too, you wont have perfect imaging everywhere you sit. The towers are about 8-10ft apart from one another. My room also has a cathedral ceiling and harwood floors but we have large area rugs to help absorb some waves. Source input is a huge culprit of shitty sound. Garbage in, Garbage out. Klipsch is known to show you the truth in sound and what you hear is what is all there. It's also mind boggling how many different options there are as far as configuration options go within a receiver/processor. Adding to that stress is making sure your source devices are also calibrated correctly because they may not be sending the signal you want because something isnt right. You have to research stuff too. You have to understand what does what and what signal goes where and how it can be modified. You also need to learn if the signals shared betwen devices is compatible. For instance, your source device (lets says your cd player) can put out a singal at 192khz bu your receiver can only interpret signals under 92khz. Your receiver wont comprehend the signal and output sound correctly. Troubleshooting 101 says bring your system down to the basics! I want you to disconnect everything and reset your rotel to factory settings. I want you to hook up the left and right channel and configure it from there. Whip our your user manual and do some reading! Add a source device like an mp3 player via 3.5mm to analog left/right. Try your cd player too. Use good quality media. See how it sounds. Fool around with different sound fields. Listen to different types of music too. Sit at different points in your room. Sit in "your" spot and see how it sounds. You need a reference seat. Get things to sound right there and then slowly change it to work for the rest of the room. There will always be tradeoffs. Everyone can't sit in the same spot. After you get your stereo imaging the way you want, start hooking up your surrounds. Keep in mind, more speakers, more complicated soundtracks..more headaches. Attack it similarly. Use a good bluray disk like tron, something that really uses the surrounds. Movies are funky animals, they will all sound diff. Some are a thousand times better than others so i say, use god quality movies. Things arent going to always be perfect so you need to learn what makes you happy and what detriments you can accept. Room treatments are toaugh and positioning but you need to weed out software issues first and then the hard placement of everything. Its an art, trial and error. Many of us have taken years to get things just right. Trying different equipment is the answer unfortunately, the same things that work for me wont always work for you.

i am quite satisfied with my outlaw 7125. its 7 channels but you could biamp your 7's if you really wanted to. I am just not using the 2 extra channnels right now. I had the xpa-5 previously and while a good quality amp, it had a high noise floor leaking static into all of my speakers. The outlaw is silent as can be, crisp and neutral sounding. It may be les power when directly compared but i will say this, i have had my 7's at ear piercing levels and the amp still had more gas to give. In a normal-large size room, its quite a formidable amp.

personally i think the rc-35 is a bit of a slouch. At lower volumes its muddy but clears up at higher. Most of my listening is at lower volumes since i dont need to be blasted out of my seat all of the time haha. I liked the sound of my rc-3 II with my rb-5's, the rc-7 would also work well too

why not just get a dedicated processor? I like both denon and onkyo and would just choose whichever one met my needs best at the price i wanted to spend.