Hifi72 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 After seeing a few stellar reviews, I'm considering buying a pair of Klipsch RP600M II for my main listening room and pairing with a Yamaha A-S1200. Before I begin, I know there is a disparity between the price of speakers to amp, but the budget isn't there for new Forte's or Heresy's at the moment, and the used market is pretty scarce locally for the Heritage line leaving my budget options to the 5000F, 6000F II or the 600M II + sub if needed. With the custom builtin shelving unit on the wall there is an 88" wide recess, for stereo and speakers. Considering the size of the room my gut feeling is that the bookshelves is likely the way to go. I'm curious if anyone done similar pairing, and what was your experience over time? I wanted the amp for the looks and lasting build quality but now I'm more concerned with the speakers for performance. I want a fun sound, lively with some good bottom end, something that adds a little body to my favourite records and cds. (classic rock, 80's etc.). The family loves the The Fives in our living room pulling sound bar duty, and it is something we all enjoy with music and movies. Very happy with my PRO-250RPW's in our theatre room as well. Given rest of the house is Klipsch speakers, I'm considering the RP range would be a work for my music room, at least for the time being. I just don't want to buy a floorstand model if oversized and a bookshelf would suffice. Appreciate your thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeloManiac Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I have the RP160M in the bedroom. These were my first Klipsch speakers. In my large living room, they are far less impressive compared to my 1972 Heresy speakers. In my opinion, if you're equipping your main listening room, you should buy a Heritage speaker set. Be patient and sooner or later a pre-loved Heresy one, two or three wiil show up eventually! About the Yamaha amp, the AS1200 used to be on my shortlist too, but also take a look at the Yamaha Yamaha RN2000A which has built in network streaming and is qobus compatible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hifi72 Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, MeloManiac said: I have the RP160M in the bedroom. These were my first Klipsch speakers. In my large living room, they are far less impressive compared to my 1972 Heresy speakers. In my opinion, if you're equipping your main listening room, you should buy a Heritage speaker set. Be patient and sooner or later a pre-loved Heresy one, two or three wiil show up eventually! About the Yamaha amp, the AS1200 used to be on my shortlist too, but also take a look at the Yamaha Yamaha RN2000A which has built in network streaming and is qobus compatible. Thanks, I saw that Yamaha come up as well. Nice one for sure with all those features. I have the 1200 now (connected to nothing), or otherwise I would look more into the pricing of this one, all things being equal. I worry the Heritage line is going to be tough to have in that room. Were it my larger living room, it would be no question about scale. Do you find there is any aging of components in the older Heritage line to watch out for? If I see one, I want to know what to look out for, or hear. Is the IV line ported now on the Heresy's? I've been looking since October or so for used Heresy's so I'm trying to find a decent alternative for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 45 minutes ago, Hifi72 said: I have the 1200 now (connected to nothing) the RF-7 in any series " used " would pair well with the A-S 1200 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YK Thom Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 I would recommend the 600M II with a sub. A crazy amount of bang for the buck. The modern Klipsch 6" are really something. Stereophile gave them a great review and recommends them. You won't be sorry. https://www.stereophile.com/content/klipsch-reference-premiere-rp-600m-loudspeaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter P. Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 That's a tough call for me. The bookshelf + sub combination would cost less than either floorstander pair and would be a killer combination but I suggest you only go that route if you have a way to high pass the signal to the RP600M's. I'd want to alleviate them from trying to reproduce the low frequencies your sub would be reproducing, to protect the speakers particularly at louder volumes. Your amp doesn't have that feature. ;-( You could do what I did and purchase a couple assembled 80Hz crossovers, put them in plastic project boxes, and wire them to the bookshelf speakers. It's stupid easy and doesn't even require any soldering skills. If that's too complicated, then I'd suggest either of the floorstanders you're thinking of. They're true full-range speakers with a small footprint. And even if you aren't having luck finding local Heresy's on the used market, you should not discount older Klipsch floorstanding speakers that often go up for sale on craigslist etal such as the kg, R, KSF, or KLF series. I see deals all the time on the local secondary market. I'm certain you would be satisfied with any of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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