arena

well, i already paid for the biwire, so i guess it's too late. also, there are no authorized monster cable dealers in my area, despite what the website says. i also couldn't find a single hi-fi shop in my town that carried any klipsch speakers. this is really hard to believe considering i'm from santa barbara, a pretty ritzy area which is the home to countless movie stars and oil tycoons (don't worry, i'm definately not one of them).

thanks for all your help, apparantly with my current speaker cable and set up i will not be able to bi-wire the speakers, but i just found a guy who is going to sell me some monster cable m1.4s biwire which is designed for this sort of thing. by the way, if anyone wants a pair or two pairs of monster cable m1.2s speaker cable, one pair new, one pair with 8 listening hours on them, let me know. also in one of my other posts i mentioned the highs on the rp3s sounded extremely bright/harsh. based on your suggestions i pulled the speaker into the room from the wall a bit and allowed more time for my new components (reciever, cd player, speaker wire, speaker) to "burn in", and i don't know if it was one or a combination of both but the speakers sound great now. all traces of upper range brightness have disappeared. thanks again for your help

yes the sub is working, the unit is plugged in, and the speaker is set to "auto" (automatically turns the internal amp on when incoming signal is detected). there is no bass setting for "large" on the reciever, only 3 eq dials: bass, treble, balance.

i have a harmon kardon hk3370 reciever and a pair of klipsch rp3 speakers. i am currently wiring the speakers with a pair of monster cable m1.2s speaker wire each, with each pair connected to the speaker 1 and speaker 2 terminals of the back of the reciever, so when i listen to the speakers i have both sets (speaker 1 and speaker 2) of speakers turned on. i made an extremely low budget diagram in microsoft paint of the back of my reciever and speaker and attached it to this post so you can see what i mean. is this bi-wiring? will i get the benefits of bi-wiring with this setup? if not, what do i need to do to bi-wire the speakers. i asked this question once before but didn't recieve any instructions on how to bi-wire the speakers if my current setup doesn't achieve the benefits of bi-wiring. thanks

the reciever is new, but has as much listening time as the speakers, about 8 hours. the cd player is used, so it has a lot of listening time on it. i have the bass/treble eg nobs set to neutral on the reciever. the speaker is close to the wall though, i will try pulling it out into the room. i'll also wait and see how it sounds with the other speaker. thanks for all the suggestions.

i've tried a number of cds, and the harshness is there on all of them. any other suggestions? thanks

well when i listen to fm i don't use interconnect cables, because the fm tuner is built in to my reciver. i only use interconnect cables to connect my cd player to the reciever. the m950is are the only interconnects i have, so i can't really do a cable comparison. any advice short of buying a comparison cable from radioshack? This message has been edited by arena on 04-19-2002 at 03:48 PM

i'm trying to put together a sound system, i've already got my cd player and reciever, and though i bought a pair of rp3s i currently only have one because ups threw the other one off the back of one of their delivery trucks, so i'm waiting for the replacement to arrive. here's my problem: i bought some monster cable m1.2s speaker wire and connected the "a" or right rp3 speaker up to my reciever and have about 8 hours total listening time of fm radio on it, and everything sounds great. but today i recieved the interconnects i ordered weeks ago, and when i connected everything and put on a cd, the horn and midrange drivers on the rp3s immediately sounded extremely harsh/bright. after about 30 minutes i felt like i'd spend the last half hour listening to a smoke detector. so when i switched back to fm the extreme harshness/brightness immediately went away. the interconnects i got are a pair of monster cable m950i, and they are suppossed to be good, but could they be my problem? also, i've heard audio components need time to "burn in" and i was wondering if the cables just need to log a few more hours before they will start to sound right. if so, how long? here's my equipment list by the way: cd player: sony cx90es reciever: harmon kardon hk3370 speakers: klipsch rp3 (right now only one) cable: 2 pair monster cable m1.2s (bi-wired) interconnects: monster cable m950i any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

hey thanks for the help. can you recommend what kind of interconnects to run from the sub out on my reciever to the lfe in on the back of the rp3s? the interconnects i have right now are too large to fit in the input jacks. also, would you recommend splitting the sub out at the back of the reciever with a "y adapter" and running an interconnect to each lfe in? thanks again for any help.

i'm running a pair of klipsch rp3s through a harmon/kardon hk3370 reciever and was wondering how exactly to to bi-wire the speakers. the back of the reciever has two sets of speaker outputs: under "speaker 1" there is two left and two right channel outputs, and under "speaker 2" there is two left and two right channel outputs, apparantly so you can hook up two different sets of speakers that can be used either simultaneously or one at a time. so there is a total of 8 speaker outs, and i was wondering if i can still get the benefits of bi-wiring by hooking up 2 pairs of speaker cable, so that the right and left channel outputs for "speaker 1" run right into the "hi in" terminals on the back of the right rp3, and the right and left channel outputs for "speaker 2" run right into the "low in" terminals on the back of the right rp3, and the left speaker is wired the same way as the right with the left "speaker 1" and "speaker 2" outputs being connected to the hi/low inputs on the left rp3. hopefully that makes sense. basically, i have 8 speaker outs on the back of the reciever, and 8 speaker ins on the back of the speakers. will hooking the speakers up this way with 2 pairs of wire (4 pos/neg wires total) add the benefits of bi-wiring or do i have to splice the wires together at the back of the reciever? also, the hk3370 is rated at 70 watts per channel. will my reciever be able to provide sufficient power if i wire it as described above? thanks in advance for any help.