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Hi guy's îm a new owner of a fabolous klipsch set of speaker. In front i got two rf82 II and a rc62 . My home theater is 15 foot wide per 23 long and would like to know if you think my center channel is too small for the piece. When îm listening a movie i always got to crank it up to listen the voice like i would like to hear it and its like the two rf82 sounds louder than my center channel. My receiver is a marantz sr7008 that im pretty sure is enough for my speaker. Can you help me please ? Should i try a rc64 ? I found one a think at a reasonable price.

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You may need to run room calibration. It sounds to me like your center channel itself is turned down. Run through setup on the Marantz and make sure the settings are configured properly, and also ensure that you have the volume on the channel turned up. Sometimes that needs to be corrected, which is why most receivers have the ability to do so.

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Did you run the room calibration software when setting everything up?  I've had the RC-62 in a space that's just a touch larger than yours and it should easily keep up.  As others have said, you'll need to calibrate to match the center with the levels of your mains.  A good SPL meter, and/or running the calibration software should help in that regard.

 

Edit:  Just saw your wanted to buy on a RC64...so, I guess this is all a moot point.

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I ran audissey a couple of times to be sure that everythings is like they should and my ears tell me its wrong. My home theater is a big L room and one pieces of the L is a play room for the kids. So that was I think my center channel was too small for the total pieces. The total of the L ( my basement ) is like 550 p.c... I will try it again to be sure ... but I still think a new center will help me in this problem.

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I ran audissey a couple of times to be sure that everythings is like they should and my ears tell me its wrong. My home theater is a big L room and one pieces of the L is a play room for the kids. So that was I think my center channel was too small for the total pieces. The total of the L ( my basement ) is like 550 p.c... I will try it again to be sure ... but I still think a new center will help me in this problem.

If your reciever is miscalibrating the RC 62, it very likely will also do the same with the RC 64.  Just some food for thought...

^ This +1

Room Calibration is not the end-all-be-all final say on the situation. I think you'd be disappointed with your results if you didn't do your own corrections to the auto-configuration even with the RC-64. If my RC-52 could keep up with my RF-3's when I had it, your RC-62 darn well can keep up with your RF-82's.

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I ran audissey a couple of times to be sure that everythings is like they should and my ears tell me its wrong. My home theater is a big L room and one pieces of the L is a play room for the kids. So that was I think my center channel was too small for the total pieces. The total of the L ( my basement ) is like 550 p.c... I will try it again to be sure ... but I still think a new center will help me in this problem.

If your reciever is miscalibrating the RC 62, it very likely will also do the same with the RC 64.  Just some food for thought...

^ This +1Room Calibration is not the end-all-be-all final say on the situation. I think you'd be disappointed with your results if you didn't do your own corrections to the auto-configuration even with the RC-64. If my RC-52 could keep up with my RF-3's when I had it, your RC-62 darn well can keep up with your RF-82's.

Ditto. I've turned up my RC-64ii a couple of db's over what my Pioneer MCACC calibration set it at.

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When running Audyssey, did you have mic position number 1 in the main listening position?  Did you use all 8 mic positions?  It shouldn't hurt anything to manually adjust your center up a few dB (2 to 4 dB).  Doing so by ear is probably as good from the MLP as using a SPL meter, especially because test noises (band limited pink noise) originating in AVRs do not pass through Audyssey, so do not reflect what is actually in the room when Audyssey is being used (unless Audyssey has provided very little comp in your room).   Some pink noise on a test disc on your player will pass through Audyssey, so that would be O.K.  But why bother?  Just adjust your center so you can hear the dialog well. 

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As suggested run your calibrations software in your receiver however do not rely on it completely if you are not happy. You may need to go in to speaker settings and tweak the volumes to your liking, also make sure the calibration software got the distances you are from the speakers correct. Lastly, what kind of speaker wire are you using? Is it all the same brand? Type?? You don't want copper clad aluminum (CCA) in your system at all if possible. If you have pure copper to your other speakers and ended up somehow with CCA for your center channel you would indeed need to turn the center volume up to match your other speakers as the copper clad aluminum speaker wire has more resistance than pure copper speaker wire.

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I ran audissey a couple of times to be sure that everythings is like they should and my ears tell me its wrong. My home theater is a big L room and one pieces of the L is a play room for the kids. So that was I think my center channel was too small for the total pieces. The total of the L ( my basement ) is like 550 p.c... I will try it again to be sure ... but I still think a new center will help me in this problem.

If your reciever is miscalibrating the RC 62, it very likely will also do the same with the RC 64.  Just some food for thought...

^ This +1

Room Calibration is not the end-all-be-all final say on the situation. I think you'd be disappointed with your results if you didn't do your own corrections to the auto-configuration even with the RC-64. If my RC-52 could keep up with my RF-3's when I had it, your RC-62 darn well can keep up with your RF-82's.

 

 

 

Is this a statement on the shortcomings of the room correction software in his receiver? 

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Absolutely agree ^. On top of that our ears don't hear the same. I believe the calibration is just a start point. I've been tweaking and adjusting for a month since getting my Klipsch. It's finally good on most every movie. Now I'm changing it a bit, will be more adjusting from then too.

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I like the RC62ii, in fact so much so that I used 2 of them as surrounds. That being said it sounded small between 2 rf82s. That was the case after various runs of audyssey, eq tweaking, channel adjusting and no audyssey. Even the audyssey chirps I could hear a clear difference in sound. The rc64ii sounded to me much bigger, fuller and at home between rf82s. Just another opinion to take into account.

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