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I have mine attached to the underside of my desk using velcro. I have these velcro strips that are the perfect size and have super sticky adhesive. In fact, if you want one, email me your address and I'll send one to ya to use.

Yeah boyeee, Beastie Boys - Paul Revere Brass Monkey's got a good thump to it as well.

I don't think it's different versions of Windows that's the problem, I'd bet it's different sound cards. Just a few weeks ago I had and older sound card, Diamond Sonic Impact s70, and I could easily keep the main volume and wav volume at 50% or less and the Klipsch were still way loud. However, with the new sound card, SB Live, I need to have the Windows main volume and the wav volume near 100% to get the same level of loudness out of the Klipsch. With the old sound card levels that high would give distortion, but with the new sound card everything is crystal clean. I think maybe that sound card manufacturers have realized than most people just don't know what they're doing and always have their volume at 100% in Windoze. And to keep people from getting such ugly sound out of their devices they may now be making sound cards that can only be turned up to 50-75% even though the software may say it's at 100%. This would eliminate alot of calls to their service departments. Just a theory.

My 2.1s at half volume are shaking all 4 walls of my room (12ft x 20ft). There simply must be something wrong if you can't get the needed volume outta your 4.1s.

In my case, the point you all are overlooking is that I didn't just replace the speaker wire for the heck of it. In fact if the speaker wire functioned as it supposed to then I never would have even thought of replacing it. But the fact was (at least in my case) the speaker wire was defective. It had shorts and produced a crappy connection. I had to bend & twist the wire "just right" to get a clear signal...then if anyone touched it I'd get static, signal loss even to the point of cutting completely out. Maybe that's ok with some of you, but for me that completely unacceptable performance from a piece of wire. (Yes the jacks weren't the best either, but they weren't the main problem). The only reason I used Monster Cable when I did the wire swap was becuase I had about 20 feet or so of the stuff just collecting dust, left over from a project a year or two ago. Otherwise I would have used something like a lamp cord. Yes a lamp cord is just as good as Monster Cable, I'm not arguing that at all. In fact the only drawback to using electrical cord in place of speaker wire is keeping the left/right identified. So since I had defective speaker wire out of the Klipsch box almost any decent wire was going to be an improvement in sound. Plus, the other weak spot in Klipsch satillites speakers is the damn jack. In my mod I completely did away with the jacks and ran the speaker wire into the rear of the speaker box (where the jack use to be) and then soldered the speaker wire directly to the positive & negative post on the crossover. So you guys talk and say whatever ya want, all I know is that now my Promedia's sound awesome and I don't have to worry about the wires vibrating a millimeter here or there and shorting out, like they would do before my modification.

You are so full of your own BS it's downright funny. And hardly worth anyone's time to try and convince your closed mind that anything exists outside of it's preconceived notions.

You might be correct concerning smaller speakers, but you take a couple large, high quality home audio speakers...hook one up with some Monster Cable and the other up with an ultra thin AM antenna wire (or something like that)...and you're gonna tell me there's no difference in the way to two will sound. You are completely out of your mind. In fact, you shouldn't even be listening to music, you're not qualified.

Paragon....uh, hello!? No I didn't hear wonderful music. I heard static, crackling, and anything but 100% of a clean signal. So maybe you need to zip it until you know what you are talking about.

I've done the same with my 2.1s. See this post: http://www.klipsch.com/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000110.html The question is: What the hell is wrong with Klipsch? Are there just idiots running the show or what? Why the hell do ya take some of the best speakers availble and have the customers connect them with utterly INFERIORc> speaker wire? Stupid, stupid, stupid.

The cabling is not proprietary. Although in my 2.1 system, the speaker cable was definitely inferior. I'm very surprised at Klipsch about this issue. The have always made such extraordinary speakers I can't believe they'd compromise their sound by bundling them with such inferior cabling. See my related post: http://www.klipsch.com/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000110.html