Cosmic_surfer

7 feet! Who do you have over to the bachelors pad?! Shaq? Eh, mine will be just above and to the side of a closet door. No worries of it ever getting hit by "traffic".

I don't understand the need for flush speakers. If you put them high and angle them down you increase your options exponentially. If you were open to suggestion, I would steer you towards the rsx speakers. They more than satisfy my needs in my formal living room theatre, performing better than any speaker their size has a right to, and they are just so sexy!

I just wanted to get peoples inputs here. There is an rsw-15 receiver on the bay right now that is being sold as not working. The seller believes that the internal amp is the cause as it powers on but does not produce sound. If it is the amp, is it possible to replace the internal amp? I am aware that it could be powered with an external amp, but that is not what I'm looking to do, is it possible to restore it to its original operating capacity? If so, what would I need to do? Are there replacement amps of the kind I would need?

Good god! That looks like a weapon of mass destruction... Fatman and little boy did not boast as much girth!

Since when did common sense come into this hobby?!

I finally got my wife into best buy, and showed her a few TVs that I liked. She is leaning towards a 60-70" sharp Q+ active 3d tv.... The picture is pretty gorgeous. Should I try and push her up to the 70?

Somebody please?!

I ran across this CL ad in Omaha, which isn't to far away for me to drive. I just wanted to get the community's thoughts on if the components are good, and what you would price them at. http://omaha.craigslist.org/ele/4441276692.html Any insights as always are greatly appreciated

Well I am curious if any of the fellow klipsch forum members live close to Philadelphia, i messaged the guy last night and this morning, but have yet to get a reply. If a fellow member could ****** them up and ship them, perhaps I may get them. Craigslist users are so finicky with non-local buyers it is so strange, think they would have never heard of ebay...

It seems I will have a hard time hunting down additional rsx-5... And the rcx-4... That one seems exceptionally hard to find... In black and gold.

Oh I will someday scratch scrappys professional itch myself... And also do a heritage setup... The list goes on and on... Palladium would be nice... Good god, I don't know what to do... Is it bad to collect speakers?

Eh... Mine will throw a fit and not talk to me. But who will have the last laugh when every room in the house is outfitted with element reference level speakers! HaHa! In all seriousness, i do plan to outfit every bedroom with them... Maybe do a house wide ambient music...

You bet I love them, for their size they put out some serious sound. They dwarf any box theatre speaker they come up against. The design is sleek too, very modern and tight little package (though not really all that little).

So let's see how deep i am -Late march - initial purchase of rf-7 7.1 setup (matched set) -April 14th - purchase of 2 rsx-4 speakers from ebay to start outfitting upstairs. -Mothers day - found a 5.1 set of rsx-3 and rcx-3 on craigslist with a velodyne 8" sub and an rw-10 (non functioning). -yesterday - won a set of 5 rsx-4 speakers on the bay for a best offer of $185 (original asking 300) shipped. -in the works - single rsx-5 speaker from forum member (hopefully more to follow) 3 months... 3!!!!

Oh I hear you on the fallout game freezes. Regardless it is a beautiful game and remains to this day one of my all time favorites (not Vegas). Elder scrolls is equally beautiful. If you get the chance, check out the dark souls games. Difficulty and learning is the true challenge of the game, once you get last that, you will get hooked on it .

I am a avid game indulger. I have tried out most games and my collection is about 150 games strong on console. A lot of games do port to computer, and no complaints on the graphics since you really can't upgrade a console. The games that don't usually port are those third party creators. Lets take a classic look at biowares mass effect. Before bioware was picked up by a major gaming company (certain it was electronic arts), it was only available on 360 and pc. Once it was picked up it started cranking out games faster across 3 major platforms instead of 2, with multiple smaller tie ins. Most third party companies dont have the resources to do that, and as a gamer I can safely say that once a third party does get picked up, the gems they are known for get poisoned and deluded by mainstream gaming philosophy. One of my favorite studios I can safely say remains somewhat independent (Atlus). Bethesda is also an extreme exception to the growth and maintaining a solid product

Up to you sancho, I can honestly say console gaming when I was a kid is very different from today. I don't know why the systems can allow up to four controllers when most games will not even do 2 players. If you want to give them some good storied games though, ps4 would be a solid candidate. At 8 years old though, I would probably go the Nintendo DS route and see if they like it. DS has some really good games on it, vita is a great system, but its library has been disappointing over the past 2 years. If you do decide to go the ps4 route, vita has amazing synergy with it.

Again, all good and fine for the mainstream gamer. But there is a significant chunk of games that never make it to pc (uncharted, last of us, beyond. 2 souls, forza, etc.). For game library, consoles are the clear leaders, yes there are games that only go to pc, but not as many as vice versa.

One more question then. I am unfamiliar how these components link together. I will start with source, lets say blu ray player. I then run blu ray to the preamp/processor. From the processor, i fees into my power amps (which I assume is decoding the sound properly to the channels). From the power amps we go into the speakers. So lets say I have a 7.1 processor, and I feed that into these emotiva xpa-5 and some other power amp for the final 2 channels. Will each channel have an in to the power amp so that the surround experience remains true, or does one line go into the power amp and then feed all 5 channels with the same sound. I really want my sound to remain differentiated for the surround experience.

Well, I would like to stay under 1000, the cheaper the better. I still need to get a tv for said theatre room too lol

Yup, this is husker country. But I will let you in on a little secret, I am not a fan of any sports in the least. I prefer my movies and videogames to have plot. Never understood the modern battlefield that pits 2 armies against eachother with "rules"... In war there are no rules... I digress. I have learned a lot here. So doing a component setup would be smart as it would allow me to upgrade the preamp/processor when new tech became available, all while keeping the muscle that i prize relevent. I see people being fans of emotiva, is that a place I should focus some attention, or do you folks have better suggestions? What are some good 7.1-9.2 power amps out there? Any good preamp/power amps that seem to be "mated pairs"?

I heartily disagree, yes shooters like CoD and Battlefield are vastly superior on computer. Your argument falls apart when we start talking about console exclusive games. I enjoy games/stories like the uncharted franchise, infamous series, dark/demon souls, dead space, the list goes on. Most of these games will never see a pc release. Besides, I really enjoy achievments and trophies... Nothing says im better than you than that trophy I have and you don't lol.

Let me start by saying, as many of you know, I am relatively new to home theatre and component theatre systems in general. I hadn't even done boxed theatre systems. I have learned a lot since I purchased my klipsch speakers, and have slowly been adding to my reference fleet with my klipsch rsx speakers (can never have enough, they seem perfect for small room application and are just so slick). Upon purchasing my rf-7 setup, a friend of mine promptly got hooked into the audiophile craze and took off. Got himself some vintage short horns as well as some bose 901 (yuck). He has been crazed and has devoured information at an exponential rate that I don't seem to grasp. He tells me that if I want my system to sound good, I absolutely need a preamp and power amp vs a receiver. To my understanding, the power amp would replace the receiver where straight power would go, but the thought of a preamp is eluding me. What do these components do that a receiver like the denon x4000 will not? What am I missing? Please keep in mind my setup is a 7.1 setup, so when preamps state they are 2 channel to my understanding those would only be beefing my main left and right speaker... I dont know im lost... Please educate this layman!

Actually the ps3 had 6 cores, and the xbox 360 had 4. The ps4 excells at memory though. The ps3 only had 512 mb of system memory, the ps4 has 8 gb of system memory (if my memory serves me right). I haven't looked up the specs on the 4 in a while, but I am certain the ps3 could play most everything (earliest models to latest). The only hardware changes that were made were those that i listed as well as a general slimming down. Unfortunately heat management only got worse. The best thing about the ps4 is that heat is almost a non issue. The ps4 runs a good 20-30 Celsius lower than ps3. So this means system failures from overheating (common in the YLOD) will be minimal to say the least. As far as sony saying the slims had more codec options on them... Flat out lie, if anything the ps3 was made cheaper and cheaper with less options, not more capability.

Playstation 3 the original fat version was the best version of the playstation 3. The original release of the ps3 found sony spending way too much to produce units. Originally it had a chip called the "emotion chip". This chip allowed the ps3 to emulate ps2 hardware at about 99% backwards compatibility. To save money, sony removed the emotion chip as well as the media card slots and reduced USB ports from 4 to 2. In place of the emotion chip sony began emultlating ps2 hardware with software with somewhat worse results (about 92% backwards compatibility). The newest slims removed the backwards compatibility completely and also made it impossible to change ps3 OS to Linux. Your questions on codecs is a good one, but in reality the original fat console could run any codec the new slim ones do. If there were new codecs, they would be installed via software updates released by sony. The ps4 will be able to play any codec the ps3 could. And, should sony make 4k content available to the network (I am sure it already is) then the ps4 could stream that video with no problem, it is basically a specialized computer devoted entirely to games and media.