blargman

Thanks for the response Russ!! "and see if the level is the same on all inputs." Sorry I'm not sure what this means. Perhaps this isn't relevant with the Onkyo 809 AVR and is more of question of analog(pot controlled) amps? Sorry I'm obviously new. I can hear it it at listening position a bit with just the receiver on, but I'm very much listening for it now. When there is something driving the speaker and it's just a quiet scene, I can very much hear it. There are things I can do to reduce this? Giving me just a small peace of mind that I may not have to send these back across country is very much reliving at the moment

Ugh, so I think I haven't defeated this issue. I was watching a quiet movie tonight and I really hadn't noticed the background noise before but there it was. I put my ear up to the horn/tweeter on the RF-7 and there is an audible hissing/static sound. I thought maybe it was the movie, so I changed sources. A few of them even. All giving the same persistent staticy sound. Like a..... bad stereo reception perhaps but not as violent in changing tone and not much popping. So, I went hunting for ground loops. Started one by one disconnecting and powering off everything. I finally then reached the point where only the receiver was on and I could still hear the hissing noise. If I turn off the receiver it immediately goes away. So I checked my terminations, redid them. Everything looks fine with the cable. It's good quality 12 gauge cable. Having not shipped the Denon 2112 back yet, I decided to hook up 1 speaker to it and just power it on. Sure enough the same staticy sound coming out of the tweeter perhaps a bit more loud even. Is this normal? I'd think for high grade speakers/receivers, it would be dead silent when nothing is being played. Furthermore, does this sound like there is something wrong with these speakers? I haven't contacted the place I bought them from yet(vanns) as I figured it was just something with my setup or I was just going nuts. Unfortunately though at this point I think there may be something wrong with them. Anyone have any thoughts on something I missed? Or something that might be wrong. Argh Frustrated

Thank you all for the help. New receiver showed up today. Re-cut the speaker wire ends and removed the Denon. Issue gone. Cheers!

I tried watchign some tv and I do hear some more popping as well. I'm going to pick up a 1/4" adapter for my headphones to listen using those tomorrow. I did post an mp3 earlier if you want to double check it on your own setup. http://theturtle.org/stairwaytoheaven.mp3

Not sure, which test tones do you mean? I can give them a try.

I have a bluray player but I honestly don't know that I have a cd in the house. Pretty much all digital. The computer is directly connected via HDMI to the receiver. Other sources I have is the airplay connection and an xbox. I bought the 2 speakers open box from vanns. I've had them about a week. I've not had them higher than about -29dB on this Denon 2112. I don't imagine I've blown them but I'm rather worried at the moment.

vlc is just an application that I can play flac/mp3 from on my windows htpc that is conected to the receiver via hdmi. I don't have a cd player sorry. I have a built in tuner on the receiver but I don't know that I'd trust it's reception. What I was comparing vlc with was airplay from itunes on my laptop.

I can hear it still a bit using VLC on the htpc. It seems the airplay accentuates it. http://theturtle.org/stairwaytoheaven.mp3 I'm curious if it's just me looking for flaws. Do you hear static throughout and worse at about 6min mark?

Mostly I've been using airplay built into the 2112 to play Pandora/Spotify and the odd flac via vlc. I also have an HTPC I've used spotify on as well. I hear it a lot on several songs. I may be hearing things that are just there in the recording. I'm just not sure.

Would anyone know of a good testing song/tone series for testing my RF-7 II's? I keep hearing pops and hisses when listenings to music and what sounds like perhaps background recording noise on the tweeters, but I'm concerned the speakers are damaged. It could also just be a problem with grounding my setup perhaps, not sure. Curious what other people do to test, troubleshoot this.

Vanns has a couple openbox for around 900-1000. I just bought 2 of them from them for 800 a piece.

not to hijack the thread but "noise floor"? I'm looking at getting an amp for my RF-7 II's. I'm curious what that means. The amp adds a hum to quiet scenes or something?

Has anyone on this forum had the chance to listen to this with their Klipsch gear? I recently bought a pair of RF-7 II's with a Denon 2112. I'm considering getting something a bit more power and the SC-57 sounds like a fairly interesting solution. It has a high output per channel, so I'm thinking it would probably make it so that I don't need a separate for quite a while. I don't plan on going past 3.1 for the immediate future. I have a Rythmik FV15 on the way and will be getting an RC64-II when the budget allows.

Nobody here thinks that things such as Audyssey room correction are worth paying extra for? UMC-1 seems to have great reviews but yet it also seems like every time MultiEQ XT is brought up as a necessity for a new AVR.