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Islander, That's intersting but Super Scary!

Inverted Bumps! Have never heard or seen such a thing!

nice...

funny...

Voted!

Sorry to hear about Adolph, but... A very warm welcome to Axel...CECAA850, it's really really cute! Can you share some more pics, please!

I agree with CECAA850's comment. In most case it's the amplifier that dies first! Find a good CLASS D amplifier, mate it with good woofer, install it in a box and you are good to go! In theory - haha...I have heard RT-10D and 12D, but not the SW112/110. For the price difference, IMO, go with SW112 if little bigger size is not a issue as you are getting 12" driver and 600 watts worth of dynamic power to drive.

Welcome Alfred67! Yeah...it's bit scary first time, but Klipshers are very nice and warm hearted! [] Enjoy!

Ah...forgot to mention that yes there was a audible difference with and without Audyssey. IMO, with Audyssey it's better sounding...

I used Audssey and it detects 'out-of-phase' correctly. Haven't worked with YPAO, but try changing the connection for one speaker at a time and run YPAO.

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Nice fix!

Ironsave, Did I miss the final finish product pics? If not could you please post it? Thanks!

I have few songs that causes speaker to make 'crackling' noise. First I thought, hmmm...the Klipsches have trouble playing these frequencies. Then, I listened them through headphone and those 'unwanted' sound were present and played at a very specific min:sec time for a given song. All these identified songs/albums are recording defects or damaged albums...

I will have to agree to what Ironsave said! 7.1 to 9.2 is not a TRUE 9.2...That way if your receiver is capable to send signal over 'Pre Outs' while you are playing through 7 x amplifier channels then you can connect all seven channels to another 7.1 receiver or amplifier and make 14.x. Yes, you have connected 14 speakers, but that doesn't mean 14 seperate channels and thus 14.x, you just did 7.1 x 2 times with two different sets of speakers to play audio or in other words muddy up your otherwise good sound... Your best bet is to use HK for 2 channel stereo and enjoy both side of world. Very few people have such a possibility!

Bulldozer, hmmm... That's a huge room! Nearly 24' x 25'!!! Must buy RF-63 or RF-83: On this subject, it depends on your seating arrangement and type of usage that you haven't specified e.g. Home Theater and Stereo listening. RF-63 or RF-83 would be great if you can get it where you live. RF-82 would be another option as well. Both RF-63 and RF-83 are discontinued and is replaced by RF-7 II, a newer Reference Series V. The matching 'Center' channel speaker for RF-7 II is RC-64 II. In your case you already have RC-64 as a 'Center' channel speaker and it might not be timbre/tonal match with newer RF-7 II Floorstanding speaker. Few options you have at this point are as follows, 1. Buy RF-82 or RF-63 or RF-83 and keep RC-64 - You are really NOT compromising anything! 2. Try RF-7 II with RC-64 and hope for the best - The tonal/timbre difference might be minimal for your listening and in most cases not distinguishable! 3. Sell RC-64 and buy newer Reference Series V speakers, e.g. RC-64 II along with RF-7 II - All latest and greatest!

RF-7 II as Center: Dolby Laboratories suggest to use 5 identical full-range speakers for 5.1 setup for tonal/timbre matching. And then, there are few forum members who have used main speakers as R-C-L. That being said, there are quite a few things going in favor of RC-64 II which are as following, 1) Closed Box design, with no rear port opening to worry about 2) Possibility to tilt 3) RC-64 II has a tapered array crossover that helps creating a nice blending between Left-Center-Right speakers 4) Four 6.5" woofers will have a faster response compared 10" woofers of RF-7 II 5) At MSRP the difference of US$300 6) It's tonal/timbre matched with RF-7 II 7) The RC-64 II is shielded while RF-7 II is not! 8) Horizontal versus Vertical – Although, location might NOT be an issue as you are willing for this change. In most cases it’s nearly impossible to accommodate RF-7 II as center speaker. I'm always tempted to use RF-7 II as center, but with all these pluses and Real-World-Rock-Solid-HT-Performance, RC-64 II deserves its place as 'CENTER' speaker in our Home Theater! Hiss Issue: One possibility is to try different mains connection (110vAC plug on a different house circuit to eliminate ground loop issue), while other is a mismatching impedance of your equipments. The later is killer as it might not be easy to fix. While it’s rare, you might have a defective electronic circuit/part within one of your unit.

@Krell101, In simple terms, the woofer cone (in this case 2 x 10" woofers) while producing sound waves move the air in front of it and then for the given frequency of sound it is futher helped by air behind the woofer cone moving out of the speaker through the rear ports. While not going into the details of how those frequency waves amplitude gets added etc., as you decrease the distance between the speaker's rear port and rear wall the bass becomes boomier (some people refers to being not natural) and vice versa. I think, I replied to one of your post and in our case we found 10" from the wall as sweet spot. Ours is carpetted area and it might be a different case with a cement floor, tiled floor, type of rear wall, room size etc.. RF-7 II versus RF-82 IIs: We have had an opportunity to audition RF-62, RF-82, RF-63, RF-83, RF-62 II, and RF-82 II. I liked RF-83s, but couldn't decide at that time and then gotten busy with work. Couldn't resist with RF-7 IIs and we love every minute of it! IMHO, not looking into bass performance of woofer drivers of these two speakers, there is a another huge difference between either of RF-82s with RF-7 IIs due to 1" versus 1.75" horn. Also, 1.75" horn of RC-64 II is tonal/timbre matched with RF-7 II, while it may not be a case with RF-82 II's 1" horn. IMO, RF-7 II is really sweet sounding and tight bass thumping speaker.

@Krell101, all I can say that in my case (14' x 24' x 9' room) the front RF-7 IIs sounded best when they were 10" away from the back wall. It sounded little too boomy when they were 5" from back wall. Yeah...I had moved these monsters every week for first four weeks before settling on their current location!

Few months ago, I got a chance to audition RF-7 II in Cherry color in A-Stock at a local deale. While, I wasn't aware of the issue with Cherry finish at that time, I did observe blotching at several places on both speakers (left and right). IMO the figure swirl grain makes it difficult to accept stain evenly, where the soft area soaks more stain while hard area soaks less causing blotching effect. Not sure, though if the blotched finish is part of 'B' stock or not.

Initially, I had set them up without spikes as I was changing the location every week to find out the best spot. Once finalized, I used supplied spikes on all four RF-7 IIs. Without spikes, it was little wobbly for couple of locations not being able to adjust, now with the spikes it's rock solid!

cool!

Something seems to be wrong! The +ve and -ve terminal are shorted? Looks like the -ve and +ve on INPUT side are swapped.

Did you mean 60Hz from the AC being rectified to DC?