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I remember dropping a picture disk or two on my turntable, back in the '70's when they first came out. I remember one in particular - Heart's "Magazine" LP - sounded like #@$&!

Nuts! I LOVE my RF-3's, and I live right near you. I'd take 'em off your hands right now if only I had the $$$!

I owned the predecessor to this integrated - the PM7000 - for a short time. I was underwhelmed with its performance with my RB-5's. However, there appears to be some sigificant differences between the 7000 and the 7200, most notably the switchable class A.

God speed and return home safely. Your efforts and sacrifice are appreciated.

I didn't care for the RXV series when I had it paired with my RB-5's a couple years ago. Why? It sounded a bit shrill to me. If yours sounds great to you, that's outstanding. Audio is a hobby governed by the phrase "Your mileage may vary." If someone says soemthing sounded less than acceptable to them, it doesn't make them wrong. There are way too many variables in audio that impact someone's impressions. No doubt that either the HTR or RXV series were well designed and well implemented, and most might find them quite acceptable for their needs.

---------------- On 8/24/2005 8:48:34 AM mdeneen wrote: By making the PSU very stiff, bloat is reduced, and tightness accentuated. ---------------- You really shouldn't be walking around in public with a stiff PSU.

---------------- On 8/21/2005 10:11:37 AM BS Button wrote: Well, a little update this morning. He sent me 4 e-mails last night. Basically, he moved from "you sold me a cheap crappy knock off" to you manipulated me. Now, that's with a minimum of 3 good, clear pictures and 100% positive feedback to date. I asked him to re-list. He found a couple pairs the next day, that he thought he could buy for a lesser price, but he will not admit that. The first e-mail I recieved from him said. "How much for you to end the auction now, and sell them to me"? ---------------- Sometimes refusing a "bird in the hand" is a risk, but this illustrates the challenges that come with ending an auction early, and foregoing some of the protections that are offered to sellers on Ebay. My experience is that individuals who might prod you to end an auction early are typically motivated only by self interest, and are typically unwilling to play by the rules, or act honorably. I've been burned before too. You're attempting to resolve this honorably by negotiating with someone who is without honor, or at the very least "honor-impaired". You're obviously a more patient person than me!

---------------- On 8/14/2005 1:21:42 PM DrWho wrote: does your sub have an auto on feature? I would try running it in an always on mode to see if that fixes the problem. What kind of subwoofer is it anyway? ---------------- It does have auto on, but it is not defeatable/switchable. It's a HSU Research VTF-2, Mark I. The mark II version upgrades the Sub with a BASH amp, and my understanding is that it takes care of this issue. However, at $250 for the upgrade, you're half way to a new sub. I'm tempted to bypass the sub amp and run the signal from the receiver into a spare amp I've got laying around here. But, no real urgency because, as stated, it sounds pretty darn good right now.

You might go find yourself a used Acurus Act III, if you're not into SACD or DVD-A. For music, you can't beat it, and its DTS and Dolby D decoding is at least as good, if not better, than alot of what is out there right now. You'll also save a bunch of dough in the process.

Funny how things hit you sometimes. My sub is primarliy used for HT, though my system doubles as my primary music source as well. The amp seems to be malfunctioning, clicking on and off at randon with a noticable "pop". So, I disconnected it, and changed the speaker set up on my receiver and DVD player to remove the sub. And it still sounds great. Watched Oceans Twelve last night, with it's dynamic sound track. Didn't miss the sub at all. So, I'm debating replacing it, mostly because I don't have the extra green right now to pay to fix this one, or buy a new one. I know I'm not going to get the extra "boom" on sound tracks with alot of audio effects (U 571 or Pearl Harbor, for instance). But I watch a movie with that kind of sound track only once every month or two. What reasons should I reconsider replacing, or repairing, the sub?

---------------- On 8/3/2005 1:01:24 PM rhiannonj wrote: Well, I just hung up with good ole Comcast and THIS time they told me that I can upgrade my box to one with digital audio outputs but they charge $25 for it. No biggee. They're coming out tomorrow so I'll let you guys know if that makes a difference. Rhiannon ---------------- Well, your problem may be solved by going to the digital box. However, I suspect the problem is with the audio set up on your Motorola. I ts been a while since I've had a digital cable box in the house, but if memory serves, you'll need to access the Motorola's menu (I think its an on-screen menu), and check out the audio set up. I think the default setting is "stereo-wide", or something like that. The "wide" setting is adding additional processing to the analog output, and likely giving the DPL II decoder on your receiver fits. See if you can change the setting to normal "stereo", and then see if that doesn't solve the problem. If it does, you're likely to experience a significant pick up in overall sound quality. Not as much as feeding your receiver the cable boxes digital outout, I suspect, but a pick up nonetheless.

---------------- On 8/9/2005 1:00:36 AM texasbluesdownunder wrote: Thanks to all for the welcome and the advice. When I purchased the RF7s I heard them through an RA 1070/RB1070 pre/power amp combination and an RCD 1072 Cd player.I was impressed with how the RF7s sounded with this.Unfortunately my budget will prevent me from getting the amps at the moment.I will try my Denon AVR2000 in the interim.It has 110w a channel was made in Japan and should be acceptable for now. I assume that the "run in" period for the RF7s is a debatable issue. Can I also assume that no real damage will be done to them out of the box at any listenable level ? Burn in is not required for the integrity of the speaker but purely an enhanced sound ? Is that correct ? Also I am now trying to work out if it is worth me bi wirring the RF7s ? I am using the old Kimber Kable 4PR cable I used with my old Sound Dynamics. Thanks so much for any help.I only have a basic knowledge of hifi setup. Regards Ron ---------------- Damage to speakers is usually caused by over-driving your amplifier. Klipsch speakers can handle gobs of CLEAN power, and you can assume that your ears will start to bleed with the RF-7s before you've exceeded your amps capabilities. The impact of Bi-wiring is debatable. I happeded to get a steal of a deal on bi-wire speaker cable and gave it a go with my RF-7's. Can't say that I heard much, if any, difference. The impact of burn in for electronics is also debatable. On the other hand, running the Klipsch at moderate volume for a week or two could help "break in" the rubber surrounds on the mid-bass drivers.

---------------- On 8/8/2005 10:42:04 AM eq_shadimar wrote: This is a common issue. The problem is that over a digital link your receiver will perform bass management and route all bass below your setpoint (100, 80, 60 etc..) to your subwoofer thereby giving you loads of bass (esp of you have small speakers). Almost no receivers and very few players will perform any bass management on 5.1 analog signals. This is the main difference. If there is not any bass on the .1 channel your subwoofer will remain silent using the analog inputs/outputs. Hope this helps to explain what is going on in your system. Laters, Jeff ---------------- Interestingly enough, the Integra is supposed to have bass management, and I thought that I had this feature set up correctly as well. Maybe worth a 2nd check, anyway.

Actually, the disk that I've been using as a "test" disk is the Eagle's "Hell Freezes Over" disk, which is DTS 5.1.

OK folks, need your help on this one. I've tried as many fixes as I can think of, but whenever I switch over to my receiver's 5.1 analog inputs to playback from my DVD, it seems the subwoofer signal "disappears". My equipment is listed below. I've tried accessing my DVD's set up menu to make sure that the sub output is activated, increase the DB output of the sub, lower the output of the other channels (which made the whole sonic presentation lousy). In 2 channel or multi-channel, with the receiver doing the processing for the sub output, everything is A-OK. Its just the 5.1 analog output that seems to giving me trouble. Any thoughts?

There's alot of advice going on here, not all of it ordered quite right. Lots of things to consider before you spend a dime on new equipment or crossovers. First, the suggestion to try to play a known quality recording is excellent. Steely Dan's Aja is a good suggestion, even if the music is not your cup of tea. It is a very accurate recording. If this recording sounds bad, then its time to look elsewhere. The elsewhere to start with would be room accoustics. Also, old tube amps are great if correctly maintained. If the electrolytics are bad, or a tube is weak, you've got a recipie for poor sound. The RF-5's, like many Klipsch speakers, can brutally reveal any weaknesses in your system. If nothing else works, I'd have someone knowledgable take a look at your amp to assure it is in top form.

---------------- On 7/23/2005 9:33:14 AM Allan Songer wrote: When she first started gigging around LA with Clayton and Hamilton I was really impressed--I mean here is this little blonde girl from Canada holding her own with two of the BEST LA players. I still think she's a much better pianist than singer--in the old days she would only sing about two tunes per set and that seems about right. I bought her first album and I would glady check her out in a small club in LA again in a heartbeat, but to lay down $50 to hear her at some 4,000 seat venue is just plain NUTTY--her talent is suited for a small, intimate club. I asked Helen Merrill last year what she thought of the new crop of highly marketed "pretty" singers like Krall, Monheit and Norah Jones and Helen said Krall was the ONLY one of the bunch who had any jazz chops at ALL--she still considered her more of a cabaret singer than a jazz musician, but she said she liked Diana Krall just fine. And that's good enough for me. ---------------- Yup, I was one of those who was "just plain nutty" enough to go see her when she played the Fox Theater in Detroit about a year ago. Still feel ripped off to this day. Plunked down some substantial cabbage for two tickets, and she was on stage for just over an hour, and probably talked for 10 - 15 minutes of that. She didn't really leave me wanting more, either.

Women are generally not passionate about "things". They are passionate about relationships. Unless a woman is truly passionate about music ON AN EMOTIONAL LEVEL (and women do not need optimum sound reproduction to evoke an emotional response - their hearts and minds can fill in the sonic "blanks"), then its likely that she won't give a rip about having an awesome stereo system. However, if a woman truly loves you, and she see's that you're passionate about something (like audio), she will sometimes make an effort to be interested in it as well, because she knows its important to you. She will do this for the sake of the relationship with you. So, the key is to try to include her in your passion. To many men make the mistake of setting up their system in the "man-cave", and don't make their significant other feel a part of their passion.

OK, folks. Time OUT!! This is a post that I started to sell an amp. This did not need to become a "thread" at all. If someone is/was interested in contacting me, they could certainly send me an IM. This was not an invitation to editorialize on the amp for sale. Editorials, positive or negative, were not encouraged or required. Postive and contructive comments are nice, and appreciated. For those of you who think that it is appropriate decorum and good manners to post whatever comments your little hearts desire, consider this: Please let me know the next time you sell your car or your house. I'll post signs around the neighboorhood and editorialize about what a POS your car is, or what a dump your house is. AMY- I'm going to ask that you close this thread.

Flynn - thanks for the kind words. You're right, we've had alot of "hand-me-down" donations over the past couple of months. My team here at work gave me a $75 gift certificate to Target, which of course will be used for diaper purchases! Folks have really been unbeleivably great. Hey, if you have another listening session at your house again, let me know. I might have to bring the kids, so we'll have to play Barney and Sesame Street music. But I'm sure it would sound great played through Craig's amps and your Chorus's!

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I guess. My wife and I were listening to the live Alison Krauss CD tonight: the Philips DVD 963SA happily playing through my pre/pro to the ZR1600. She looked over an me and asked "Are you sure you want to sell this?" Have I told anyone that I REALLY love my wife at times like this? Dean - I never did get the cabbage together to do the crossover mods to my RF-7's. I guess in my system the "bite" still comes from my speakers!

OK folks, here's the deal. I toyed with the idea of selling this amp earlier this year. With twins on the way, I thought money might be tight. Now, with the purchase of a mini van (an Explorer just won't hold 3 car seats!), new bedroom furniture for my 3 year old, purchasing a 2nd crib, an extra car seat, a double stroller, and diapers, diapers, diapers, money IS starting to get tight. The doctor told my wife at yesterday's appointment that we'll be parents again no later than next week, so I guess I have a renewed sense of urgency to address the finances. I love this amp, but this will need to be the first of some of my equipment that will need to go. I don't foresee myself being able to spend a lot of quality time with this music/stereo hobby for the next few years. AND, letting some of this stuff go now will help raise some extra cash. This is the Carver Pro TOTL amp based on the much-discussed Tripath circuit/amp design. Lots of info out there about how Tripath works, so I won't take up space here with those details. The amp can be had new in on the web from authorized dealers for $1000 - 1100. You can get it new for less if you don't purchase from an authorized dealer, but then forget about any warranty service. This amp has been modded by a fellow hobbyist who has WAY more aptitude for that kind of work than I do. However, once modded, the warranty is no longer valid. The mods DO have a very positive impact on the performance of the amp in a 2 channel or HT environment. Here is a description of the mods: The pro balanced imputs have been replaced with Vampire OFC RCA Jacks , 23GA Solid Silver Teflon hook-up wire directly to an IDC connector on the mainboard, which bypasses the input card (great improvement in sound through bypassing a lot of op-amps), reduced fan speed to significantely reduce the Fan noise level, and rewire outputs with Kimber 15 gauge OFC wire to NEW Cardas Copper Binding Posts. One of the BEST. These mods took an already oustanding amp to new hights. Parts alone for the mod was over $140. I have since disconneted the internal fan. As efficient as Klipsch Rf-7's are, this amp is never really pushed. This amp puts out 350 WPC into 8 ohms, so it has never even broken a sweat in my set up. Quite frankly, it has spend most of its time lately producing children's music, Elmo and Barney. Truly, this piece is being underutilized! As far as the sound, this amp sits at the top of the heap of all the amps that have passed through my system. I've had Acurus, Adcom, Monarchy Audio, and Rotel. This one has stayed the longest, and I'd surely be keeping it if not for my expanding family. The strongest points to my ear of this amp are the seperation and imaging, the clarity and detail (lack of harshness) in the upper ranges, and bass of the like I've never experienced before. I had gotten used to boomy, tubby bass. Now, I've got bass that reaches down deep without boom. If there's any such thing as "detail" in the low frequencies, I think I've got it. I must say that I did have a issue until the last 3 months with some hiss coming from my RF-7's horns. I tried different interconnects, different upstream equipment, and different AC cords. A simple "cheater" plug seems to have done the trick to erase the hiss. I don't pretend to know why it worked, it just worked. I'd like to get $750 for this amp, but will be open to reasonable offers. That is less than I paid for it, including the cost of the mods. It is used, but I've kept it in great cosmetic condition. And its operational condition is excellent. Let me know if you have any questions about this unit. Coming soon - A "Universal" player from Integra, and possibly an old Adcom 545 amp.

Another opinion - the RF-3 is ALOT of speaker for $350. If you listen to exclusively rock, then go for the KLF's. However, if your musical tastes a little wider (jazz, clasical, instrumental), you'd do well to take home the RF-3's. I've got a pair mated to a modded Marantz 1030 integrated, and it sounds awesome with whatever I throw at it, including rock.

No, that's not what happened. Here's a note from the folks that run AK: "As if we didn't already have enough issues with the site, we now have a new IP address. The hosting company is having routing problems because MCI now owns the old IP address and may reallocated any time. The new IP you should be using is 204.10.140.18."

George - lots of things can cause an amp to blow fuses. Can you describe under what circumstances the fuses blow?