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Drew and MS Painted future planned setup.

Is there such a thing as 5.2.6 capable receiver, yet?

A sliding rail/track system for atmos speakers would be cool.

 

The Atmos speakers will benefit immensely from the inclined ceiling. Current config right now is 5.1.2 where the Circled A's are the current locations of the Top Middle Atmos speakers.

The sectional is actually 1 foot further back right now than actually pictured and it is currently missing the left chaise that will be purchased in the future.

 

room is 21x17

lowest ceiling height is 8'

highest ceiling height is 9'

The sloping ceiling is depicted by the hashed lines.

The small circled X's are small LED ceiling lights.

The Grills are small vents and large ceiling return.

Gray squares are my 10" subs

Front LR are RF-83s

Top Atmos are R-2650-Cs. Would like to get the CDT-5800s but it's whatever deals I find, as always.

Center currently an RC-62II. Still searching for the holy grail RC-64 still.

Rears surrounds will be RF-82/IIs +/- RS-62/IIs--still searching.

3 windows on the far right wall and large 7' archway on the left entry/wall.

Projector hung over the rear sub behind the sectional.

 

 

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Picked up a pair of mint RF-82IIs with boxes and a used Denon x4300 along with a Panamax 5300. The AVR is missing antennas, remote and power cord. I couldn't afford the RC64 after purchasing these so I'll continue searching next month.

The 82s are my surrounds while I wait for some some RS-52s or 62s for 7.x.x config. One thing I did notice was the 82iis were a little on the brighter side then the 83s.

Still building my center stand.

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The Reference II line always seemed to be brighter than the RF-63’s that I owned. I honestly believe the 3 woofer Reference Klipsch speakers were underrated but not by the people that own or have owned them.

 

I still keep my eyes peeled for 83’s or 63’s on the used market but they are on the rare side, like the RB-75. 

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9 hours ago, K5SS said:

The Reference II line always seemed to be brighter than the RF-63’s that I owned. I honestly believe the 3 woofer Reference Klipsch speakers were underrated but not by the people that own or have owned them.

 

I still keep my eyes peeled for 83’s or 63’s on the used market but they are on the rare side, like the RB-75. 

I have never looked into how they sounded and assumed the difference was negligible. Not once did I think it A-B my RC62II with the 83s. In the scope of things, it would be easier to sell the 82IIs should I not keep them.

 

Now if you're close to this guy: https://tulsa.craigslist.org/ele/d/klipsch-surround-sound/6719407616.html for a fair price on the 83s.

I'd hop on it if I was local.

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I would think that you wouldn’t notice much of a difference, once everything has been properly calibrated. I vote keep them as I loved my RF-62 II’s as surrounds with my 63’s.

 

Yes, that deal in Tulsa would be I’m my car already, if I wasn’t in Seattle:/ That is a killer setup for an excellent price! 

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Monoprice banana plugs installed.  These are such a timesaver (banana plugs)! Anyhow, it appears I have an extra pair of speaker wires to goes to an unknown location that I will have to find out one day.

If you guess right to where it goes/or was intended , I'll send you a $10 gift card to your favorite shop. I have a hunch but we will see. Stay tuned! l

 

I got lucky and found a guy selling his 5.1 setup which happened to have the RC-64 and RS-62 I was searching for. He was able to find buyers for his towers and sub and shot me a message asking if I was still interested in the center and surrounds. I told him Hell Yeah, and arranged to pick it up across Texas. Sound panning is a whole lot more uniform across the front sound stage with the RC-64 now.

 

Next up is to find a location to mount the surrounds. More than likely they will be on the back wall. 

The sectional seating may have to be moved forward a bit more for better imaging. Once the location is dialed in, new wiring will be routed to it through the walls as well as installing new sub connections closer to their resting place. I picked up some tools for the job at Harbor Freight. I love this store!

 

I currently have one sub right behind the couch near the back wall and the second up front right. The front right isn't doing so well for bass partly perhaps due to the huge gaping archway.

 

A distracting echo is present up near the top edge of the front wall which I need to figure out how to get rid of. I also think I figured out why my projector keeps turning off/blanking out. I have HDMI 1 and HDMI 2 AVR output hooked up going to the Projector and so I am assuming it was getting a bad handshake. I disconnected HDMI 2 wire and that seemed to fixed the problem.

 

Ordered a Sony UBP-X800 on E-bay for a decent price. Target had a clearance on them for 89.99 so people were buying up all of them and flipping them for a profit which I'm sure whom I purchased it from did. I tried to see if Best Buy would match but they do not do it for clearance items. I may pick up the Sony UBP-X700 to use in the living room. A review mentioned that the X700 has a more natural color profile where the X800 had a slightly more saturated color profile. Doesn't like coming up the theater room often so she has called it my Man Cave now.

 

With all the speakers up on a better quality scale, I find my two ceiling speakers kind of dull for Atmos. I'll have to recheck the Audessy calibration setting and may have to manually adjust the gain/distance. The Dolby setup guide mentions that some AVR speaker autocalibration systems has a tendency to incorrectly adjust ceiling speakers and subwoofers. Either way, I have my eyes set on some Klipsch 5800s or anything better than my current R2650-Cs for the right price. Once that's out of the way, a dedicated amp is next so I can run another set of ceiling speakers.

 

 


 

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Looks like my old basement room.  Very nice!
 
Remember, surrounds should be mounted to your side and not behind you if at all possible.
 
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Thanks! Someone pointed out to me that I do not have enough room for the 7.1 setup with two in the back seats. I'm using the RF-82IIs as the side surrounds currently but may use the 62s since they are purposed for that function. I just need time to play with the setup to find a happy medium.

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Thanks! Someone pointed out to me that I do not have enough room for the 7.1 setup with two in the back seats. I'm using the RF-82IIs as the side surrounds currently but may use the 62s since they are purposed for that function. I just need time to play with the setup to find a happy medium.

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Used some old stools from Target which are almost perfect height for ear level. Sounds great and I'm sure it could be better but I'm content for now.
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