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Let me be the first to admit my own ignorance with this type of technology. I'm actually not one to skip over manuals, but plugging in new speakers in place of speakers that work never struck me as needing any research beyond what I knew. Hopefully this will just be a learning experience and not something broken I have to deal with. I do understand speaker impedance alot better from your explanation. So I think I will change the receiver to the 4-6ohm setting and see if that corrects the problem. If not, then I'll try the factory reset and go from there. Since the problem doesn't occur everyday I'll have to monitor it for a few days per fix to see the outcome. In my post above I said how yesterday all the speakers worked fine and right away, but now again today the center channel took about 15mins to work. I'll be sure to post in a few days to let you know how it's going, thanks again! -Jason

Thanks for your reply William. According to the Klipsch website (http://www.klipsch.com/na-en/products/hd-theater-1000-specifications/) the speakers are 8ohms so I'm not sure that I should change the receiver to 4ohm setting. To clarify the problem it didn't start immediately when I hooked up the new speakers almost 2 weeks ago now, the first time I noticed it was this past Monday (about 8 days after initial purchase and set-up) when I started the system and only the rear L surround and subwoofer were playing, and then one by one (several minutes inbetween) the rest started to work and it was fine. The very next day I turned everything on and all the speakers worked except 2, which similarly started to play after several minutes. Wednesday they all worked right away when I got home, and yesterday only one didn't work (but did again after waiting for several minutes), today they all worked immediately again with no issues. This is the most detail I can give, unfortunately I don't know nearly as much about the technical workings of these electronics to identify the problem. It's quite annoying to not be sure when I'm going to have to wait for the system to work, kind of like having an extremely slow pc where you plan to boot it up about 15 minutes before you actually want to use it. The idea of the factory setting reset is really good and I think I'll try that this weekend. Thanks again for your response and insightful advice.

Yes I had a different cheaper Onkyo receiver and speaker package, when I got the new Onkyo receiver I swapped it in with the existing speakers and then just recently swapped those out finally for the HD 1000s. I've read about other people with the Onkyo tx-sr806 having overheating problems and the unit dying, but once the sound comes in from all the speakers on mine they sound absolutely beautiful, it just takes quite a bit to get them all to turn on. I would have still guessed it to be a receiver issue but since it just started about a week after purchasing the new speakers I'm not sure if it's coincidence or not. I will call support as soon as I get some time away from work though, thanks for your fast reply!

I have an Onkyo tx-sr806 receiver that I've had for a few months. Last weekend I bought the Klipsh HD theater 1000 speaker system. I also have a PS3 and 52" Samsung and everything is running through the receiver on HDMI. Two days ago when I turned on the system I realized I was only getting sound out of a couple speakers, but after several minutes another speaker would start to play until they were all on and fine. Same thing happened again yesterday, I started with one surround and the sub playing and it almost seemed like a set amount of time between each speaker starting to play one by one until they were all running fine. This is the nicest system I've ever splurged on so I don't know alot about this technology, should I be worried that one of my components isn't working right? Or even worse is something already breaking? It just doens't seem normal that I have to wait 15-20 minutes before I can listen to all the speakers playing at once.