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Very nice looking subs! Enjoy and report back.

Just super glue everything down and let the movies and music play!!! LOL. I wish I had those felt pads befor the sub vibrated a crystal vase off a shelf.

One of the best HT setup! I just like the look of everything.

You will hear a difference with the 82's over the 62's. The tabe is not a big deal if you are using autocalibration to setup your speakers. The pads for under the speaker placement will help with vibration.

Seeing the forrest is using multiple subwoofers for best bass performance if I am getting the article. Plus or minus the addition of room Tx's and judicious use of a parametric EQ.

Love her music and RIP!

Congratulations on the new pre-amp and enjoy.

Josh, I do not think you will get a night and day dfference with the Emotiva. It depends on if you will eventually move to all separtes. I personally like the avr/amp combo. You get more power and having the avr as a pre-amp works very well. Separate pre-amps last about as long as an avr before you want new features. I am vey happy with the pre-amp in my Pioneer.

Ever consider using the avr as a pre-amp and getting a 2 channel amp for stero and multichannel listening. I don't think it will make a night and day difference in the sound. Most of the current avr's have good processing so maybe the addition of a 2-5 channel amp is all that is needed to drive your 7's. I use my avr with two yamaha amp and am very pleased. Pre-amps last about as long as avr's for features and may need an upgrade around 5-6 years. A common rule of thumb is to get an amp 2-4 x the speakers RMS, even though most of us are not using that much in the power department.

Use Pay Pal if you buy the Marantz avr. if something funny happens in the deal, you can dispute it and Pay Pal will not turn over the money to the seller. A little hassel, but you will not loose your money.

Is there any role for a parametric EQ in the HT beside for the sub?

There is a nice Aragon 200/400 watts/ch.in the garage sale section.

You are blessed, Enjoy!

RF 63 HT system or the RF 83 for some reason have a special appeal to me. I like having 3 woofers for a little tighter bass and the 1.25 tweeter is a nice size to fill in the Hi's. I wish one of those system had a horn like the Icon V or W. They just look great!

http://www.aperionaudio.com/AperionU/spl.aspx is a good place to start for how to use the meter. Good direction should also come with the meter. I don't use my much since the meter and avr readings are very close.

If you don't want real large speakers, one or two subs will fill in nicely to give that extra punch to your system.

you can use a power center like the Monster Products if you can't find another way.

Depends on the cost benefit ratio, you will need anothe amp, active x-o and the technical know how.

I brought the BD which has a 3D/2D version for $19. If you like action, you will like this movie!

Run the wire behind the wall, make a small opening in the wall for the wire and forget about the banana clips, surround should not be moved around much. I have not change my surround location for years with 3 different HT setups. So, pick the location carefully.

Sometimes it take a little time to adjust to new equipment since our ears are biased to our old setup. I like to use EQ on a couple of my preset to bring out the instruments that I fill are lacking in SQ, for a particular genre of music. Autocalibration get's you into the ball park but, only you know what you really like. Sorry to hear that you are not impressed with your purchase. I would not think about another amp just yet!

Check out -SHOOTOUT! Epik Empire vs HSU VTF-15H vs CHT CS18.1 vs Rythmik FV15... on our forum. It may give you some Ideal[^o)]

Yes, the Underwold series are dark movies. I guess I am a fan of Kate B. and like all the action and special effect. This latest movie is around one hour and 20 min. so, not to long. It gave my subs a great work!

Interesting thought, even though the signal is changed to the speakers before the signal. Maybe it should be termed semi-active bi-ampin[:#]. This also increases head room with the signals not being summed, and less distortion at the x-o.

Even though it is active Bi-amping, you are using the speakers x-o. This maybe as good as true external x-o but, you don't have phase and time aligment issues to deal with and the cost of a pure external x-o. There is no learning curve with this particular way. The manufacture has done the x-o work for you. The R&D developed the x-o fit the drivers and the speaker box which is hard to beat for most us that are not that tech savy.