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I will do that, I think radio shack has them? Is there a good place to start with levels? I think its the m70 as after testing all day it is way louder with the M70 than with the AVR. I bought monster cable RCA cable thought that would do the trick......maybe not.

more pronounced in some tracks than others, but maybe double of what I heard from the fortes..... ever. I listen to the same songs a lot and know them pretty well. The more I listen to the 7's the more I like them but I do know I need a change for music. Movies it sounds great other than the fact the yamaha mic turns the center RC-7 up to +10 and it seems way to loud and can not handle that volume very well.

The heck of it is no matter how much I research an amp I always find bad reviews so it makes it hard to pull the trigger. I am not made of money so buying to try is not an option. I have heard a lot of good about emotiva and seems to be a few people on here using them. I called and talked to them and they suggested the XPA 100 mono because it has low gain. I guess I will have to research my current gear and see what its rated at. The trouble is I am by no means an expert and will not even pretend to know what all the specs mean. I do know the hiss is louder when using the M-70 as maybe it has a higher gain value? I talked to klipsch tech and he said that pretty much no matter what I do I will have the slight hiss as the speakers 101-102db rating is to blame and they will reproduce whatever signal is fed to them, even amp noise. I pretty much had that figured out which brings me back to a good clean affordable amp that I can use with the 7's. You think parasound should be my first try? Lets say under $1000

Hello, after selling my forte ll's i purchased a nice pair of RF-7 classic (not ll's) as I like the looks better. My fortes sounded great and I loved them but always wanted the 7's. After a good drive to get them, I hooked them up to the same avr with the same cables and changed nothing in the avr (Yamaha RX-A1000) there is a noticable hiss coming from the horn. I then hooked up my Yamaha M-70 and gave that a try and it is still there, just sounded a little ....flat. I then put a Yamaha EQ-70 inline and can adjust it out for the most part but I can still hear it and it changes the sound so much I don't care for it, not to mention I dont like adjusting the eq as I get confused on what I am after as there are so many changes you can make. I have read that they are picky buggers but I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The 7's are 7' apart and slightly angled toward the listening area. and about 10" from the wall with the left one being 4.5' from the corner and the right 3' from the corner. I have a paradigm PS-1000 V.4 and have been playing with placement of the sub and speakers as I have read that some people have tamed them down a bit with placement. I can still hear the hiss no matter where they are so I put them back to the location that the fortes where in. I was thinking it may be as simple as the Yamaha amplifiers? I have read Rotel is a great match for them and was wondering what the rest of you folks think. I have a budget of around $500 to get a good used amp that is capable of driving these with the crystal clear results I had from my fortes. I feel as if I have spent more money and taken a step backwards as far as sound quality goes, I do not want to give up as I have heard the 7's many times at my dealer over the years and never really paid much attention to the amp. Any input would be great

Hello, I am just getting into this HT experience. I bought a Yamaha RXA1000 and Have slowly been building the system. My fronts are RF-82 and rears are Polk RT-16 with a temporary RC-52 II as a center, and I can't forget to mention the paradigm ps-1000 sub. I know my center is way small and not a good match for the 82's. I have been doing some research and there seems to be a lot of people saying the Yamaha sound and klipsch do not mate well. I am not real satisfied with sound quality even listening to music on 2 channel (just the 82's) Seems my old Polks have a fuller richer sound (more in the midrange as well). Is there anyone out there that can tell me how to tweak my RXA1000 to better match the Klipsch ? I am a long time fan of both brands and years ago I had a pair of forte's which I loved (powered by a forgotten Yamaha receiver). Due to size I bought the RF-82. I am not real familiar to the RXA1000 but my audio guy said it was leaps and bounds ahead of my old rxv557. I love my receiver and was wondering if indeed it was the problem (if after I figure out I can not tweak it to my tastes) can I add a different amp or something to power the Klipsch? What would I need? My room size is 23x13 on carpet Sorry for writing a book here just wanted to give lots of info. Thanks