Hi, I am new to the forum. My father got me into Klipsch when I was a kid and he bought his KG3.5 speakers. He then gave them to me when he upgraded to KLF10s. Well me and my father have been on a Klipsch frenzy and we have both been searching ebay and craigslist regularly for Klipsch speakers as of late. He bought a pair of KG.5s and a pair of KG4.5s. I bought a pair of Klipsch Belle's from someone. I have been busy cleaning up the wood, trying to restore the color. We hooked them up to my Harmon/Kardon AVR247 receiver which I believe is 50 watts per channel. The speakers sounded like a good speaker, but didn't WOW us at all. We hooked it up to my father's Onkyo TX-NR717 which I believe is 110 watts per channel and we still were not Wowed at all. I have upgraded the crossovers to a pair from Bob Crites and still nothing great. In the mean time, I bought a pair of KLF10s and a pair of KLF20s from some craigslist ads which sound great.
I am looking for advice about what to do to make the speakers sing like I have read that they can. I would love to use these in my existing setup, home theater or just 2 channel. Are we just not getting enough wattage to them? I would be willing to save up some money (just spent a lot in speakers in the last 2 months) for a separate 2 channel amp for the Belles. My problem is I just don't want to spend more money on this "theory" of a great sounding speaker. I have never heard Belles before. I bought these and they didn't sound great, so I got a decent deal on them thinking I could make it better. Any help would be appreciated on this, thanks.
