jocker96

Thanks for your suggestion. There is a setting on my AVR for dynamic range and it is set to maximum. Could you be so kind and to explain to me what it does?

Lacking bass, not power. Actually "dynamic bass" as he puts it. If he were hurting for power, it wouldn't lack bass so much as have distortion in the bass. Too much of the bass is being redirected to a single sub in the entire HT. If he had multiple subs as in your case, this would not be as noticeable. From the original post it seems his trouble is he needs to either stop high pass filtering so much or he needs to EQ as Bryant mentioned. I think you got this right my friend. This is the very thing that is happening to me. Also I noticed that I get lots of bass in the lowest frequencies ( whole living room is shaking ) but not so much in bit higher frequencies… Let me try to explain this better… it´s like 34Hz- lots of bass and then let’s say 100Hz -lacing bass. I might add that now, when I began experimenting with manual EQ, I find my system sounds much better. Overall I think it is better with each day passing. Might be break-in period thing or just me adapting to sound of my new speakers like others suggested. Can you please explain what this means? By the way, thanks for clarifying that with subwooer knobs

Tanks everyone for answers Unfortunately my AVR doesn’t allow setting crossover individually for each speaker so I will set mains as LARGE, center and surround as SMALL and crossover at 40Hz. Also can you confirm that I´m setting knobs on the subwoofer correctly. User manual says “If setting the crossover point in the receiver, turn the Low pass Filter knob on the subwoofer to the farthest point right (160Hz)” Well my subwoofers low pass filter knob doesn’t have 160 Hz at its farthest right point, it has LFE instead. Just double checking. Hi Bill, You're right I live in Sweden Maybe Denon is more solid when it comes to power rating its amps. When comparing some specs, your Denon 1713 power consumption is 390W and my Yamaha rvx 777 is 300W. That is not huge difference, but still. Your Denon gives 80 w per channel / 8 ohms / all channels. Yamaha doesn’t even mention how much power one get with all channels driven. Instead it is 95 W per channel / 8 ohms / 2 ch driven. I can only guess how much power I get per channel when using 5 speakers (300W divided into 5 channels = 60W) Please, correct me if I’m thinking wrong here. What is your opinion on RP-260F? Are you happy with them? Parametric EQ on my Yamaha has following options: YPAO:flat, YPAO:front, YPAO:Natural, Manual and Through. I don’t like YPAO ones and use Through and Manual most of the time. Maybe investing some more time in Manual setting would be a god idea? Unfortunately Klipsch are not so easy to come by where I live. I have visited 3 different AV stores in order to listen to 3 different Klipsch speakers RP-250F, RF-82II and RF-62II which is predecessor to mains I have (RP-260F). I must say that I liked every one of them and every one was hooked up to a decent AVR or amplifier, none of them being Yamaha budget model like mine. Fortunately one of AV stores I visited agreed to lend me Marantz 7009 over weekend for testing. So next weekend I will be very busy testing and getting ready some extra cash for new AVR In the meantime I will refurnish my living room so I can move speakers more freely. Right now my mains are standing 2.5m (8.2ft) away from each other and there is a wall 35cm(1,15ft) behind them. One of them is standing more less in corner of living room, the other is not. Can this be causing problems? Anyway, thanks again for all the help guys I hope I haven't offended anyone with my beginner questions:)

Hallo to all Klipsch forum members! I recently upgraded my home theatre with Klipsch speakers. I got following: Front: Klipsch RP 260f Center: Klipsch RP 450c Surround: Klipsch RS-52 II Subwoofer: Klipsch R-112SW Connected to Yamaha RX-V777 After I put everything together and placed all the speakers, I must say that I am not so happy with the sound I get The problem I am experiencing is simply the sound lacks dynamics and bass. Lots of treble, little bass. It feels that I listen to some sort of PC speakers when I run 5.1. Sure, I can screw on the subwoofer to get more out of the low frequencies but then the whole room starts to shake including windows and myself on the couch Unfortunately even then I think the sound is too sharp. It doesn’t matter witch settings I use on my amp, I get poor results. When I run just fronts without a subwoofer so it sounds better but not quite 100%. The base will start to kick in when I raise the volume but still too much treble in my opinion. At low volumes, the sound is very thin. I feel that I just want to constantly raise the volume to get better sound. Applies to both film and music. Settings I use: Subwoofer: -LOW PASS knob is set to the farthest point right (so that I can control this from the amplifier) -GAIN knob on one third Amplifier: -All Speakers are set to SMALL (except when I run just fronts, then they become automatic LARGE as soon as I turn off the subwoofer) -Bass CROSS OVER 80Hz -Calibrated with YPAO This can´t be speakers fault, most people who own Klipsch speakers from the Reference series is very satisfied and the speakers win in different tests. I have also listened to RF-82II hooked up to Maranz SR7009 in Pure Direct mode ... and I must say that I have been blown away by how good this combo sounded. Pure Direct mode at home sounds almost as computer speakers from the 90s. Sure RF-82II is bigger than my RP-260F so maybe this isn’t best comparison. What I suspect myself is that my amplifier is not enough, is too weak to drive those speakers or Yamaha is not going so well with Klipsch. Possibly I have missed something in the settings. Maybe my new speakers need more playing time to sound good. Fronts have played in a total of 30 hours, the rest 10-20 hours. What do you think? Thanks in advance for any help. Ps. Sorry, for my bad English. Hope You will understand what I meant.