Psylo717

That is a great idea, I was thinking the same thing and will adjust tonight.

Last night I hooked up the surround speakers and re-ran audyssey (finishing the final 2 rears in the 7.1 tonight) and the room really came to life. I only had time to watch a few different clips but the detail was amazing. I had to make a few tweaks to the auto calibration based on other posts that I have read such as turning Dynamic Volume to low/off and changing the front L/R to "small" so that the cross overs push everything below 80hz to the sub, and turned the sub's low pass filter to bi-pass. I was able to turn it up to 90 without any distortion but was also comfortably listening at volumes as low as 25 while watching netflix on the ps4. 90 was too loud for regular listening even if it was an action movie but I wanted to see what the system could do. The room size is 20x21 (slate floor and drop ceiling so not the best acoustics).

I have heard that the Emotiva amps are rock solid, def an upgrade from what I purchased. Similar to Hutch, I have a youngster in the house and didn't want to invest in more than I needed. I wanted to hit that sweet spot of beginner pricing and quality. Now I just need to tweak the calibration - the bass is underwhelming on the slate floor in the finished basement at mid to high volumes. My guess is that I have the cross overs for the sub poorly set, going to spend time on Friday going through and re-calibrating. To be honest I ran audyssey on the fronts, sub, and center channel only so the system is far from fully calibrated and I have only put about an hour into it. Wont have time to setup the rest until the weekend. Regarding Scrappy's comment on the xt audyssey, I also went with the x series just to get this as everywhere I was reading the same comments on how it was far superior to the E-series grade below. Hutch, I am interested in hearing your experience once you get fully setup. And thanks for all the welcome greetings!

Wow people were not kidding when they said that this was an active forum! It is great to there are others out there. So far I only have had time to setup the fronts, sub and center channel - finishing off the surrounds this weekend after running some wire and hanging them up on the walls. I will post back my experience after it is fully setup. I appreciate everyone's comments and look forward to hearing the system.

I have owned Klipsch computer speakers in the past but am new to the HT world (non HTIB). I recently picked up a full kf-28 7.1 set of the Icon series at Black Friday in addition to the Denon x2000 receiver and am looking for some assistance on whether this receiver is powerful enough to power the speakers. I have done a fair amount of research on both the speakers and the receiver, but am concerned that the front speakers are being under powered or the receiver is being over worked and may become damaged. In a perfect world, I would like to run the full 7.1 setup. Although I am unsure as to whether I would benefit more on running 5.1 and bi-amping the front speakers (pardon lingo if it is incorrect) and returning the other two rear ks-14 speakers. Any assistance is greatly appreciated! The specs of the system are below: Speakers: (2) KF-28 Floorstanding Speaker - 150W RMS / 600W Peak KC-25 Center Speaker - 100W RMS / 400W Peak (4) KS-14 Surround Speaker - 50W RMS / 200W Peak SW-450 Subwoofer - Self Powered AVR: Denon x2000 - 95w @ 6ohms, 125w @ 8ohms Room Size: 20x21 with a corner tv/front sound stage setup