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I had not answered this however I am very familar with this system, I had it and sold it a few years ago when I purchased my Klipsch XF-48 system, only difference then was I had the cinema sound towers as well to go with it. When I saw these pairs of CSB6s for sale on Newegg for $99 I knew I was making the switch. I like the Galleries plenty but you pay a hefty price for looks and a good sounding speaker. These JBLs look just as nice in my opinion, not quite as thin coming in at about 4 inches thick, but thin none the less, and I don't know how to describe it but it's like these JBLs announce their presence more with their looks which I like. In my opinion these JBLs sound quit a bit better than the Galleries. They have 5 inch woofers and go down to 60hz and produce a larger soundfield. Crystal clear highs with these speakers as well. And again at $300 for the set compared to the $1500 I paid for the Galleries it's really no comparison. Thanks for the compliments I'm very happy with how they turned out.

This is the left surround

Another of the front soundstage

My new JBL Cinema Sounds, only $300 for the 5 speakers set. Great sounding speakers and an absolute steal for this price. And it's a looker too.

Its a slippery slope indeed

I have a pair of G-28s and a pair of G-16s for sale. $1000 for both pair of $630 for the 28s and $400 for the 16s. Let me know if anyone is interested!

I haven't heard the cinema 8 so I can't compare the RSX-4 or RSX-5 to the quintets but I have heard the cinema 6 and honestly don't think there is a difference. Even if you look at the specs of both the quintet iv speaker and a RSX-3 they are nearly identical. I wouldn't doubt the cinema 8 sounds better but it's also hard to find and still fairly expensive in the ones you do find. I know I shopped them for a few weeks with no luck so ended up going with quintets. Besides the guys room is 10 x 10, any of these systems are going to more than fill his room nicely, just wanted to try and save him a buck, make a recommendation he wasn't considering, and make a recommendation that is much easier to shop due to how many of the quintets are for sale.

I would recommend the Quintets for this setup, very similar in size and performance to the RSXs however they are easier to come by therefore better deals to be had. I just picked up a like new set for my home office which is 6.5' X 9'. I'm just using 2 of the quintets in a stereo setup because of the size of the room and the way that I have it laid out. In a 10' X 10' room the quintets will perform amazingly trust me. These will also outperform any of the HDT300, 500, or 1000. I picked up my like new 5 speaker set of Quintet IVs on the bay for $180 shipped which sell for $549 at BestBuy. The quintet system doesn't include a sub with the system but the money you'll save can be used to pick one out that will also outperform the ones Klipsch include in the HDT series. Here's a pic of my setup, I'm using another pair in my bedroom for a stereo setup also. It's a great sounding speaker for the package and price. I've also seen several of the Quintet III systems for sale with Klipsch Sub10s or Sub12s from $300-$400 which is an outstanding price/performance ratio. The only difference between the Quintet III and IV I believe is a different style horn.

G-16 Surround Right

No problem Jason I just snapped a few pics for you of the G-16s that I'm now using as surrounds. My surround left is the one with the lamp in the picture and where the longer G-28 didn't quit fit properly, so that was the main reason I switched to the G-16s for surrounds. For people who don't already know and are interested Klipsch named these speakers due to their length, for example, the G-28 is 28 inches long and so on for the G-16s and G-12s.

Bruce- Please reference page 1 of the thread where I posted several pictures. If there is a certain picture of something or angle you are wanting that I didn't post please let me know and I will try and do so. Thanks

I'm sitting in my office where my BDs are mounted on the wall and am just gonna go thru them alphabetically and type which ones I thought provided great demo material: 2012 Avatar Band of Brothers Batman Begins Black Hawk Down Bourne Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum Cowboys & Aliens Crank, Crank 2 The Dark Knight Fast Five Hellboy, Hellboy II I Am Legend I, Robot Inception Iron Man, Iron Man 2 King Kong Master & Commander The Matrix Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, 3, & 4 Rise of the Planet Apes Saving Private Ryan Star Wars 4, 5, 6 Super 8 T2 Judgement Day Transformers 1, 2, & 3 We Were Soldiers X-Men: First Class

I own 2 Onkyo TX-SR608s and Audyssey is always spot on with the distances in my living room and bedroom setups. Same can be said for the Onkyo TX-SR606 I used to own.

Just a bit of an update on these, I did exchange my G-28 surrounds for a set of G-16s. Got the exact same results when I ran audyssey 50 hz so the output is very similar with the 16s. If you aren't familar the G-28s have 6 drivers but only 2 are active the other 4 are passive and the G-16s have just the 2 active drivers dropping the 4 passive. I switched these out for 3 reasons; to save some more money, I knew the output would be similar if not the same so I wouldn't be compromising any performance, and because the G-28s didn't quit work in one of my corners due to the length of the speaker and a floor standing lamp we have in that corner so the 16s fit better. Still very happy with this system and everyone who has been over has complemented them.

I've owned both speakers the RB-61s and RS-42s. I started out with the RB-61s as my surrounds in my 5.1 and then switched to the RS-42s. Both sound great and do a good job but I was happier with the RS-42s as my surrounds and I think you will be too. Expecially for the price you are paying for the pair.

As I stated earlier in a previous post I am a believer in keeping all speakers from the same line. I would agree that its less important for your surrounds to match but I would still never do it. I think you can mix the rs-52s with a gallery front sound stage but just a warning if you haven't seen one in person yet... the rs-52 is a very large speaker. I can tell you that the surround experience I get from my gallery speaker is different than what my rs-42 produced. I think that the rs-52 may overpower your gallery's a bit and you don't want that... surrounds are supposed to add to the front sound stage... not be the main attraction.

I forgot to mention WAF. The wife liked the reference line because it was a beautiful speaker and the cherry veneer matched our hardwood perfectly. However she likes not having the towers now which makes our place seem much larger and allows more room for our baby. So as you might guess the wife definitely approves of these and has already begged me not to switch speakers again for awhile since this is my fourth set in 2-2.5 years. She really ikes this one.

So I guess Ill start with why I decided to get rid of my reference line for the new Gallery speakers. First off, I love my reference series, best sounding speakers Ive ever owned. However I live in a townhome and they are just large, and by large I dont just mean physically but the sound. I could never push these speakers, in fact my normal listening volume for movies was just a hair over halfway to reference volume. Any louder and it would hurt your ears or seriously scare you. Keeping that in mind, I have always owned slimmer flat panel driven speakers, info on those systems can be found in this thread http://community.klipsch.com/forums/t/157075.aspx Last week I stopped in Ovation in Indianapolis and one of the reps demoed a pair of Goldenear Triton 2 towers for me. I wanted to hear these speakers esepcially after all the rave reviews I had read. I was impressed to say the least. The soundstage sounded huge with these. This is what got my juices flowing on going back to a slimmer and design conscious speaker. The triton 2s arent small by any means but it is a slick looking speaker. After spending a few days throwing the idea around, looking over my space, and shopping the price of the goldenears (not cheap $3k a pair), I came up with the idea of getting away from towers all together. It was something I considered in the past but didnt think was possible due to the lack of room to mount the left and right satellites to the wall where my TV is mounted. Then I began to think outside of the box and devised a way to do so on the adjacent walls with a speaker mount that could rotate 90 degrees to angle the left and right channels towards the viewing postion and giving the speakers a nice floating in the air effect. I preferred this over buying speaker stands and setting them on there which would essentially turn it into a tower. So i made the decision I would move forward with this vision and listed my reference line for sale in the garage sale section here: http://community.klipsch.com/forums/t/159749.aspx Then I went back into Ovation to demo the Goldenear supersat50 assuming it would give me the great sound I heard from the Triton 2 towers assuming because it has the same tweeter and midrange layout just is lacking the sub on the triton 2 that provides the low end. But I figured my sub would take over those duties and the rest would still be provided by the Supersat50s. Obv I wanted to compare the speakers to other worthy competitors that they had in the room so along with the supersat50s, they had def tech mythos XTR50s, and the Klipsch Gallery lines G-28, G-16, and G-12 that also fell into the flat panel thin satellite category. After flipping back and forth between the 3 lines and listening to a few different sources the Klipschs caught my ear much more so than the Goldenears or DefTechs. Why I'm not sure exactly I wouldn't call myself an audiophile, sound is completely subjective to me. The best way I can sum it up is the Galleries sounded more crisp, clean, and brighter. The Goldenears and DefTechs were not as heavy on the treble I guess. Then came the looks, the Gallerys took home 1st place in this department as well. The piano black is gorgeous plus I knew that it would match my TVs bezel perfectly at home. The Goldenears are definitely a cool looking different speaker that would definitely catch your eye with more of a matte black finish, and the XTR50 is similar looking to Gallerys with the same tweeter and midrange layout but mixes a contrast of matte and gloss black. Third and certainly not least I wanted to see which speaker I could get for the best price. Guess who won, ding ding ding Klipsch again. I don't want to share the price I paid for the speakers in this thread and undercut Klipsch but if you are really interested PM and I can share with you. Just for reference the: MSRPs: G-28s: $499 SuperSat50: $499 XTR-50: $799 Going into the comparison I probably wouldve said Klipsch would be my last choice. More due to the fact of mediocre reviews from HomeTheater and SoundandVision than anything. I thought the G-28 was the best looking but didnt have high expectations for the sound. Especially since both of the other systems recieved stellar reviews from the same sources cited above. Just goes to show how subjective sound is. Once I got them home and installed, took me probably 2 hours to get everything properly mounted and then ran thru audyssey, I watched Cowboys and Aliens first. Great sounding movie, and the Galleries didn't disappoint. It is not my reference series. And I knew it wouldnt be and you cant expect it to be. But the sound you get from this speaker is impressive nonetheless. What's more impressive anyways, a great sounding speaker coming from a big box, or a good sounding speaker coming from a 2.4 inch thick blade mounted on the wall? Again I have a small space and this speaker would probably struggle more to impress in a larger room. The Gallerys are complete eye candy, and they sound very very good for the package that they come in, price isnt bad either considering the premium that you are paying for such a design driven line. The sound you get is different than any other Klipsch Ive heard but similar to the Klipsch horn sound at the same time. I would probably compare the sound to the Quintet system but a much fuller complete sound, the Quintets only got to 150hZ I believe. So I love the speakers, no they dont knock your socks off like the reference speakers, but Ive caught myself a few times staring at the speaker while watching something because of how beautiful it is. If you want clean powerful sound from a thin package this is a great package. Just a note: when this speaker is not wall mounted you do lose some low frequency extension. For example my left and right fronts arent actually mounted flush against the wall and when I run audyssey it computes the range for the speakers as follows Fronts:90 hZ Center:70 hZ Rears: 50hZ Sub: 100hZ 100 hz for the sub is the recommended setting for these speakers. The rears probably go deeper due to how I have them mounted in the corner but 70hz from the center flush mounted is what you would normally expect from this speaker. I went ahead and left the sub at 100 but changed all the speakers to THX recommended 80hZ. My EPIK Legend is a real star in my system now as well. It gives support in the midbass very well and blends in well with these speakers. Alot of fun. So far I've watched, Cowboys and Aliens, Drive, Band of Brothers Episode 9, The Godfather part 2, a few bball games, and a couple hours of pandora listening. HAvent been disappointed yet. Let me know if there is more you guys want to know about these or have any questions. Thanks for reading, Cheers to Klipsch for making another great speaker at an affordable price.

Correct that is my kitchen pantry behind the wall that my tv and the speakers are mounted to. I will go into more detail why I decided to do away with my reference line soon when I give my review just finding the time to sit down and type it out for Im really busy with work at the moment. I did away with the RSs as surrounds for the mere fact that Im a believer in having the five speakers all be from the same line. I would agree that the surrounds are less important to match than the front soundstage however the look of it alone would have bothered me. I am still considering getting G-16s for surrounds instead but I wanted to try the G-28s first and see how they looked. You are correct though as far as sound there really wouldn't be much of a difference between G-16s and G-28s, it was more for cosmetic purposes which was a big reason to moving to the Gallery line in the first place. I just really like the look of the G-28 speaker, its gorgeous.

No it is for sale in the garage sale section. The RF-62s are already sold.

I will be sharing my opinions on the speakers very soon. I was able to watch a movie last night (Cowboys and Aliens) after I completed the install. However I want to put it thru its paces a little more before I make any conclusions. I did some regular TV viewing today and plan on watching the movie Drive tonight then moving to some music tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Surround Right

Front Soundstage

Next to the RF-62 for reference

Unboxed