I'm so excited about my new tower speakers that I had to post.
I've never been able to justify spending $1k plus on a set of speakers even though I've been pining after them for years now. Been living with some Klipsch RB-51s for a few years now and the complimentary center channel. I like them.
I did a lunch break trip to local box here in Colorado and found a pair of Klipsch RF-82's on sale for less than half price. Paid $532 after tax for these towers. They wanted to get rid of last year's inventory for the new stuff. These were on super discount because they are so big! I guess big speakers are hard to sell but I think we all know that in our hearts.
I was really not considering tower speakers before but these were such a good deal that I couldn't pass them up. I thought that some good bookshelf speakers with a good sub would do the same. This may be so in certain setups, but I have just moved into a new house and my 6cf sub had to be moved to the back of the room from the front...where I had it before.
The sub was easily localizable (not a word?) where it had not been before. My receiver only crosses at 100 Hz which I understand is a limitation.
Introduce the Klipsch RF-82. Set speaker size to "large" on receiver.
Now the bass is so much more focused into the soundstage. Really a huge improvement. Sounds much more up front. Much more natural. I could even turn the receiver to only send LFE signals to the sub now with these if I really wanted. But they are not that good. I've determined that even with music a sub is necessary.
I think my receiver's fixed sub crossover is compromising my bass experience a little so I may need to upgrade that next. 80Hz would be better. This one originally came with some small satellites.
Anyway, here is a pic with my old on top of the new...
I've never been able to justify spending $1k plus on a set of speakers even though I've been pining after them for years now. Been living with some Klipsch RB-51s for a few years now and the complimentary center channel. I like them.
I did a lunch break trip to local box here in Colorado and found a pair of Klipsch RF-82's on sale for less than half price. Paid $532 after tax for these towers. They wanted to get rid of last year's inventory for the new stuff. These were on super discount because they are so big! I guess big speakers are hard to sell but I think we all know that in our hearts.
I was really not considering tower speakers before but these were such a good deal that I couldn't pass them up. I thought that some good bookshelf speakers with a good sub would do the same. This may be so in certain setups, but I have just moved into a new house and my 6cf sub had to be moved to the back of the room from the front...where I had it before.
The sub was easily localizable (not a word?) where it had not been before. My receiver only crosses at 100 Hz which I understand is a limitation.
Introduce the Klipsch RF-82. Set speaker size to "large" on receiver.
Now the bass is so much more focused into the soundstage. Really a huge improvement. Sounds much more up front. Much more natural. I could even turn the receiver to only send LFE signals to the sub now with these if I really wanted. But they are not that good. I've determined that even with music a sub is necessary.
I think my receiver's fixed sub crossover is compromising my bass experience a little so I may need to upgrade that next. 80Hz would be better. This one originally came with some small satellites.
Anyway, here is a pic with my old on top of the new...