Help with my RF-63's

[thecutter]

I recently changed my set-up. I had an old Kenwood setup with pre-amp, amp and Kenwood speakers. My recent set up is an Onkyo 705, RF-63's, RC64 RS62. I got a RT-12d but have not set it up yet. The RF-s were set up with the Onkyo. They sounded lifeless. I got an Emotiva XPA5 amp. This improved the sound but hey still sound bright. The midrange is good. Highs are a tad pronounced. Lows are flat.

I plan to set up the Sub. This may help. The speakers are 6 to 7 feet apart.

Any suggestions? My old set-up sounded better.

[Professor Thump]

It is hard to answer your question without more information.

The RF-63 is a full figured girl. If you feel like you have flat bass ( I am not sure if that is a compliment or not but I am going to assume that it is not) the you are most likely setting up something incorrectly. For best bass ( and you may not have the room for this) you should have the 63's out several feet from the wall, otherwise you will have less bass. This is a matter of laws of physics.

Secondarily your signal chain is crutial to a flat response. Do you have the receiver set for no EQ? Do you have the receiver set to "Large Speaker"? If not you will be cutting off the LF signal to the 63's and since you don't have the sub set up you need this setting selected.

Thirdly, your room should have enough dampening on the hard surfaces (walls) to minimize standing waves and flutter echo. If you have a lot of glass the room will sound too bright. Add some room treatment to the wall to maximize your sound.

[MD1032]

It is hard to answer your question without more information.

The RF-63 is a full figured girl. If you feel like you have flat bass ( I am not sure if that is a compliment or not but I am going to assume that it is not) the you are most likely setting up something incorrectly. For best bass ( and you may not have the room for this) you should have the 63's out several feet from the wall, otherwise you will have less bass. This is a matter of laws of physics.

Secondarily your signal chain is crutial to a flat response. Do you have the receiver set for no EQ? Do you have the receiver set to "Large Speaker"? If not you will be cutting off the LF signal to the 63's and since you don't have the sub set up you need this setting selected.

Thirdly, your room should have enough dampening on the hard surfaces (walls) to minimize standing waves and flutter echo. If you have a lot of glass the room will sound too bright. Add some room treatment to the wall to maximize your sound.

+1 on everything he said. The room is absolutely crucial. When I moved into my apartment, my forte II's bass went from quite possibly the tightest, deepest bass I've ever heard to extremely flabby-sounding. Why? The room, despite being small, has a serious amount of echo in it. I pulled them out from the wall more to alleviate the amount of bass I heard and that tightened things up a lot. Having your speakers close to the walls can be good in terms of increasing the amount of bass, but it can also be bad. Take a picture of your setup! We'd love to see it.

You'll definitely want to fix this before putting in the RT-12d.