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  1. I'm happy I got to audition the 64. By the end I figured out how to blend it in with the fronts in my room, tow-in did the trick. But now, its done, and I have 3 RF-7 IIIs up front, and I love it! Watching Once Upon A Time In Hollywood right now ... I love how that one gun shot during Lanser just jumps out at you with Klipsch speakers ... Pow! Looking forward to how this will sound with an action movie. Was thinking of getting Ford V Ferrari. I have Hacksaw Ridge, but that's for another time when the wife is out.
  2. Update. I got a chance to move the right speaker to the center and audition it there, so here are my opinions. The RC-64 III is an excellent speaker. Timbre-wise, there's no question it matches. Its also dynamic due to its efficiency. No more amplifier compression during loud noises. Unfortunately due to the acoustics in my room and the way the ceiling was made, its easy to pinpoint the center. Like, you have this big wide sound stage with the left and right, but then this small center point, which is saying something due to the center's size. You can hear it even if you're off-axis, but it feels small in comparison. My ceiling is made like a set of stairs. The highest part of the ceiling is where my couch is. Then there is a step down where the equipment is, and I fear that due to this step down, the center sounds like its boxed in due to it being horizontal. Before I got this center, I used the Monitor AUdio RSLCR vertically. Though the speakers weren't timbre-matched, I was satisfied by using it vertically. It sounded more seemless that way as opposed to using it horizontally. SO, I moved the right speaker to the center and listened. Lets just say, I can't unhear what I heard. The first movie I tested it with was Fellowship of The Ring. There was plenty of content to fill out the center. Though the RC-64 is closely matched to the RF-7 IIIs, using a RF-7 III for a center takes it up a notch. And the focus, O the focus. I knew when something was in the center, and it sounded just as full and huge as the other 2 speakers. I'll probably have to turn the center down a db or 2 to get a seemless blend with the fronts. I'm quite aware that not all center channel soundtracks are created equal. Many older movies won't have as much detail due to using production sound versus music and other sound effects for the lefts and rights ... today there's not as much of a distinction. But I was convinced. Third RF-7 it is. I already rearranged my shelving to accomodate it, now just have to make the exchange.
  3. Robert, I'd say if you have the means, experiment away. I live in a one bedroom condo, so I don't have space to have multiple speakers and their boxes laying around. So far, i've been listening to this center with different movies and with multi channel music. I used paper reams to boost the speaker up to tweeter level of the RF-7 IIIs. SO far, sounds like a speaker bridge, what with the center being horizontal. I'm still going too move one front speaker to the center to see if I notice any difference that would make me alter my setup. I use container store intermetro shelves, so if I wanted a 3rd rf07, I could make 2 half-sized units and put the speaker between them.
  4. SO I recently discovered this forum post. I had the RF-7 IIIs since May of last year and loved them. I now have the RC-64 III center and love the blend. Though I'm still considering using a third RF-7 III for the center. I have 28 days to decide. The dedicated center is the most practical with what I have, but like Wookie, I want to do this right sound-wise. I have to change my shelves if I decide to go floorstander, but am willing to do it if it's worth it. Wookie, it looks like you went with the center. Was it just your housing situation that made you decide to do that? Timdog, before you got the 3 RF-7's did you audition a center? Closest thing I can do is to move one of my fronts to the center to see how it compares to the actual center. I'll lose a right speaker, but I don't have the space to keep 2 large boxes around, so it'll have to do for testing purposes. Unless of course, one of you is familiar with center versus floorstander.
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