Advice needed on upgrade

[Gorn]

I'm looking for advice on upgrading my speaker system.  My Home Theater System is Powered by a Marantz SR5008 running Klipsch RF25's, RC-25, and four RB-25's for surrounds.  Purchased in 2005.  Room size is 14 X 22.  I am wondering if upgrading my system to the new RP line (RP-6000F, RP-404C, ....) would give me a noticeable improvement in clarity or not.  I'm having difficulty hearing softer conversations parts on TV and movies without turning up the volume too high.  I am hoping the upgrade would help that or maybe as I am getting older, 67, my money should be better spent on hearing help.

[K5SS]

You have nice speakers that should be paying nice and clear dialogue, really shouldn’t be a speaker issue, more of a setup problem. My Denon has adjustments that bumps up the level of the center, where most of conversations are heard during normal content.

 

I am not sure what Marantz calls this setting but I believe it’s called Dynamic Volume. This setting should be played with a little before you throw more money at the system. 

 

If if you have an itch to upgrade something, I didn’t see you list a subwoofer..

[Gorn]

Thanks for the help, K5SS.  I have played with the Dynamic Volume some.  Don't really like it much though.  Seems to make things sound flat but I will keep working on it.  I listen to music with the system as well, both in stereo and Dolby IIx and don't like it at all for that.  I do have a Klipsch 12SW  which replaced my 12" Velodyne that died about 6 months ago.  Sound overall is good just my hearing might be faulty.  Thanks again for the advice.

[K5SS]

Not a problem at all!

 

I owned a quite a few original Reference gear, along with some References Premier gear. I did prefer the RP over the Reference sound but it definitely wasn’t a night/day difference.

 

With that said, if it’s in the budget and you have the room, I am sure running 3 RF-7 III’s across the front would sound night/day better:) 

 

I am in the camp where the center most important speaker in the system.  I also think the front 3 should match, if space isn’t an issue.  

[Rivernuggets]

My center is set louder than the mains, more so than most people I'd guess.  

 

Sometimes the content is to blame. There have been many movies where I have to turn it up for conversations, then down again for actions scenes. The contrast can be too much for my tastes. One example is Public Enemies (2009). Nasty!

 

Maybe a 3 way model would bring out the voices more for you, like a front stage of Heresys.

[jjptkd]

On ‎11‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 12:17 PM, Gorn said:

I'm looking for advice on upgrading my speaker system.  noticeable improvement in clarity  I'm having difficulty hearing softer conversations parts on TV and movies without turning up the volume too high.  I am hoping the upgrade would help that or maybe as I am getting older, 67, my money should be better spent on hearing help.

 

I would recommend finding a RC-7 or RC-64 II center speaker you could leave everything else the same and should be a close match those center speakers are very clear and crisp detailed with high sensitivity overall clarity I think leans toward the 64 II but at the expense of bass response of the RC-7 both are great and can't go wrong with either one though I personally prefer the RC-7 it's the most tower like sounding small speaker made by Klipsch IMO.