RyanRusty26

I went ahead with the front height setup in my Klipsch Reference home theater and I'd thought I'd just share some information and my experience with it. There doesn't seem to be a lot of talk about it and there should be. -------------- Front height is the way to go. Imagine turning on 7 channel stereo and filling you entire wall with sound. Now imagine being able to hear helicopters land instead of just sounding like they are hovering on the screen. Birds will fly high and bullets reign. I can tell you first hand its something you want if you have a capable Yamaha Receiver. -------------- The proper mounting setup for the Front Presence Speakers is 1.6'- 3.3' outside of your Front Left and Front Right Speakers with a maximum distance of 5.9' from the floor. You can go over and under these numbers without much penalty so don't worry to much about the numbers. You will still get the effect as long as they are higher than your front left and right speakers. Keep in mind that you will be pulling the sound from your entire front sound stage (Front Left, Front Right and Center) so you want it uniform, don't make the age old mistake of mixing and matching, especially if you own the unique Klipsch Speakers. I recommend buying the next smallest size for front height speakers. For example if you have RF62 Floor standing go with RB51 Bookshelf Speakers. -------- Setup -------- Once they are mounted point them at the sweet spot . Connect your calibration microphone and run that for automatic distance and leveling of your newly installed speakers. -------- You must turn on the Front Presence Speaker by accessing the Main Yamaha Menu, go to Setup and then access Speaker Setup. Once inside this menu go to Configuration and turn them on. -------- Its also very important to enter each one of your different Speaker Modes on the Yamaha Receiver and adjust them according to where the speakers are place and where you sit. These options can be accessed by going to your main Yamaha Menu, then going to Sound Program and then hover over what Mode you want to adjust and press Up. For example, I recommend changing the volume levels of each speaker in your 7 Channel Stereo Mode so they all blend perfectly with one another. Then switch between 2 Channel Stereo and 7 Channel Stereo to hear the unbelievable difference it makes. -------- Don't forget to experiment with the different Cinema DSP Music and Movie modes while watching live performances on CD/DVD or Blu-ray. Some DSP modes you might like are The Bottom Line (equivalent of a small club) and The Roxy Theater (equivalent to a 500 seat venue in a rock theater.). If your fan of Opera, Classical, or Symphony then I highly recommend the various DSP modes for large concert sized venues, like Hall in Munich and Hall in Vienna. When your watching movies there is no better mode than Cinema DSP Standard Mode for movies. This mode replicates a movie theater. ------ A final piece of advice is experiment with Dialogue Lift. Which takes the center channel dialog and mixes it with the front height speakers. If you have a large screen it will aise the voice and dialogue so that it feels as if its coming from the middle of the screen. --------- If you get your front presence setup correctly and you take the time to fine tune it, your definitely in for a real treat. For those that are wondering, My setup consists of: ----- RF62 II Front Left/Right RB51 II Front Presence Left/Right RB61 II Rear Left/Right RC52 II Center REL T3 Subwoofer Yamaha 700BL AVENTAGE Sony BDP570 Marantz CD5004 Panamax 5300 Audioquest Cabling Panasonic 42ST30

wow, this is why i hate forums. Nothing but wrong information gets passed around. Set your sub crossover to 80Hz , frequencies roll off, so even though your set at 80hz the frequency band will roll off each side, so you will still produce 90 hz and above but it won't be as predominant as if you actually had the knob set at a 100 hz or a 110hz. Setting it at 80 ensures your subwoofer will reproduce the frequency below 80 hz and some of the mid range above80hz. If you set your sub at 120hz then your going to reproduce way to much mid range and its going to sound terrible. Stop thinking your going to miss something by not getting this setting right. Set your speakers to large and call it good, let them produce what they can produce. If you want to set your receiver crossover to anything then set it to 80hz and call it good. question 2) thats corect question 3) don't increase levels at all, set to it to zero question 4) thats because these yo yo's told you to set it at 120hz, set it at 80hz like i told you and tell me how much better it is for movies. question 5 ) if you set those rf 52s to small then your going to short yourself on the low range frequency, that speaker can reach as low as 36Hz, if you decide to set it to small then your telling that speaker "hey i want you to produce 60hz and above (not sure where small actually sets the crossover for that speaker but im sure its 60hz or above). so set it to large and call it good question 6) never heard of bass out, skip that until you know exactly what it does. Never hurts to call Yamaha directly and ask them. So in short , like this thread should have been. Set the sub to 80hz, set your crossover to 80hz or less (lowest i would set it would be 60hz), sit back, relax and enjoy the show

??? You can't wait for the Magnolia to get Reference but you never can go back to retail? Correct me if I'm wrong but Magnolia is the section for high end equipment in Best Buy and they are a retail chain right?

LMAO I know right!!? Looks like something out of 1991.

If you have Klipsch Synergy F2s then I would reccomend setting them large, setting your receiver crossover to 90Hz so you can still dip them down into the 60hz range but relieve the F2s from the 30 - 40Hz job and set you subwoofer to 80Hz so it can handle the 80Hz to 20-30Hz range. Setting your speakers to the small setting is going to limit a lot of low range frequency.