plummerdesign

An update of sorts... It is week number 3 with these r28f speakers. Consider that I have an Onkyo tx-8270 receiver, an Onkyo 8030 CD player, an amazing turntable and all new wiring. This is a brand new system. And yet, I cannot make these speakers sound good. All of the hours trying to break them in with different kinds of music have been to no avail. Seems I have to send them back. It is a bummer. When you cannot hear certain passages of music because they either get muddy or harsh there is a problem. Time to find something that will sound good. Dang.

Glad to read that I am not alone in 'muddy...missing mid-range'... The R28F speakers arrived this week. I hooked them up to my 200 watt (100 per channel) stereo receiver and was fully prepared to grin. No grin appeared. While the Klipsch R28F towers have a very bright horn and a decent lower end, there is no mid-range. So I really wanted to grin...and kept throwing music through them, also adjusting the bass and treble controls on the receiver to somehow find where these speakers would find happiness. Consider the music; all CD's well mixed such as Bowie Black Tie-White Noise, Beatles 2017 Sgt. Pepper, Neil Young Harvest Moon, Bowie Earthling, David Crowder Sunsets and Sushi, plus plenty of jazz, steel drums, acoustic and NOTHING has brought out the mid-range beyond a muddy mess. I tuned them up to where I could hear the music outside the house, doors closed. Ran them this way for about an hour. In all I have given the speakers maybe 4-5 hours of music and still the mid-range is a mess. When the music gets complex, the speakers get muddy..irritatingly so. This is not what I expected. . Just to be certain, I went to Best Buy/Magnolia and listened to the floor demos and the listening room speakers. They sound delightful, especially with the 10" powered sub. The fellow there advised me to give the R28F's plenty of 'break-in' time. I have doubts. My car audio sounds better than this. My old speakers sound better than these (replacing a well-aged set of 6 ohm 1981 JBL R133's that I had rebuilt by Jamac maybe 18 years back). Do I send them back?