Klipsch owner thread - Page 632

Does anyone know if the rs-62iis can be stand-mounted or something similar, as I do not have a wall close by to attach them to....?

Or would the rb-81iis on stands be okay as the rears in a 5.1 setup?

yes and yes. Some people prefer the RS line as the surrounds as they are designed to envelop you in sound. Some people prefer the directional RB line as their surrounds. I really like my RS speakers and I had them sitting on end tables for a while before I had them mounted to the wall and they worked fine and dandy. I would say if you are able to go listen to each of them in a surround setup or if you are able to demo them in your home with a good return policy, do it to see which you prefer.

I would agree with DJ that the choice between the RS & RB for surround duty is personal choice , some like the off axis horn effect & some like the direct radiator aimed @ the M L P horn . Some of this will depend on the room as well . there is a definite "love them , hate them divide" polarizing difference of opinion between the two different style speakers for the surrounds duty , that is best placed as the owners personal tastes to decide . The RB's will run lower in costs ,the RS's are expensive . You can get a much bigger RB for the price of a smaller set of RS's so that must be taken in to account as well . In other words there is no way anyone can tell you what you will prefer . You can educate yourself on how the bipoles (The RS line )work & that will provide some insight .

Hmmmm... I don't want to put them on a table. It would be nice if there was a stand that attached to the back of of the RS speakers in lieu of a wall.

It is not so much the difference in sound as much as finding a place to put the RS speakers. My setup is in the middle of a large room with no walls close by on the sides or back.

Currently, I have bookshelf speakers on stands as my surrounds.

I would then call Klipsch & talk to them in real time & see what they recommend to use as stands.
IIRC the RS line is designed to placed on a wall to work as intended ..

. Sounds like the RB speakers are the way to go. Thanks!

I think you will be happy with either way you go =^)

It sounds like I have a similar question and/or need as Nick did.

Currently we have a pair of RB61's and a Klipsch powered subwoofer serving as our two channel audio system, driven by an Onkyo AV receiver (80W per channel) and are very happy with the sound we get from our Klipsch speakers. I use the system mostly for music but that will change with the introduction of a 55" Panasonic GT50 soon, so we are looking at adding centre channel and surrounds to our gear.

At the moment all is packed up as we complete a gut to the studs renovation of the front half of our house... which will be done in 12 days time. I've buried cable in the walls and provided for some contingencies including wall mounting a RS speakers or floor-stand mounting RB speakers as the surrounds. Our room layout doesn't make it easy to wall mount the right side RS. There'll be a custom cabinet right where the right hand RS should go.

For that reason I was thinking I might be better off stand mounting the left hand speaker and shelf mounting the right hand, and was leaning to another set of RB61s or perhaps a size down.

Up front centre was planning on adding a RC-62 II.

I've never used or heard dipole speakers and don't know what to expect. Our room is not very large; it's an eighty year old home, each room has a door and we use the LR door often at night. I've added soundproofing insulation inside all the interior walls too, fwiw.

The AV gear is going in the custom cabinet to the right of the main seating area - we are trying to avoid having the room look like a home theatre as much as possible. Maybe that's a lost cause anyway, but towers up front are out by order of the wife. ;-) That's why we are sticking with the RB61s up front, on as unobtrusive looking a stand as possible. I may custom build some and stain them to match other furniture.

It is possible the chairs will be somewhat forward of the couch.

Given our objectives and room limitations, would I be better off with RS or RB's for the surround speakers, and which model/size ought I look at in either case?

^^^It's really hard to say as bipoles/directional are really a matter of preference. I've never had bipoles before but I really like how mine sound. Last night I watched a movie and the way the sound was mixed it sounded like it was in 7.1. I've read people explain that you are not supposed to be able to tell where the sound is coming from as much as directionals. I don't really find this to be the case in my setup but they do definitely disperse the sound a lot more so it seems to cover more space (kinda hard to explain). If possible, go listen to some to see if you like how they sound. As far as putting the front speakers on stands, you can also look into something like this, which is what I have my rear rb-81 IIs mounted to and they work perfectly. They also give you some flexibility for aiming.

djPerfectTrip - thanks for the feedback.

I'm a two channel guy making the leap so I don't have firm opinions of any sort. I am tempted by the RS series; maybe they'll work out better when we change seating around. We tend to move things slightly during the cooler months to allow use of the fireplace.

What height do you folks suggest mounting RS series units? Place them roughly parallel to the seating position or forward/aft some?

Before I start taping drywall seams tomorrow I'm going to run a just-in-case cable from the wall mount box I have on the left side of the room up the wall so I can handle a wall-mount contingency. The other side is easy for me to deal with after the fact.

I heard eye level . ,ear level would be the best but seated ear level is NOT a WAF

I assume WAF means Wife Approval Factor or something along those lines.

As our seating is towards the rear of the small room... after a short period of unease, I bet wall mounted RS units would or could soon be forgotten by my lovely and tolerant wife. I think she might be more worried about the RB61's on floor stands at the front. A RC62 seems to be in our future but I have a plan for that.

With regard to mounting height between RS and RB speakers:

If they are going to be on stands to either side of the listening area, one should use the RBs over the RSes because RBs are direct firing and the RSes may not disperse as well as designed if placed in this position.

The RSes are a dispersion type speaker and will work best on the wall, above seated head height so they can disperse into the room. That's not to say RBs aren't good on the wall, at or above head height. RBs will be fine in either situation. I'd limit RSes to locations where they can work as designed.

To further this, if the listening position was on a back wall I wouldn't use RSes. This is another good use for RBs because of the direct firing design, while the RSes would be much too close to the corners.

I have a pair of RS3-II mounted on the wall near the ceiling 7 feet behind our sofa and aimed down works just fine. Aiming them at the back of your head made a BIG difference. I had them flatt against the wall and HT Blurays sounded great if you were standing up. I had to build a shelf for my RC-62 center and have it on the wall just even with the top of my 55" TV and have it tilted down aiming it at the front of the sofa. I have my flatt screen on a AVR cabinet and the back of the TV is away from the back wall for venting and the depth of the RC-62. I have a pair of Cornwalls for fronts about 7 feet from the front of the sofa in line with the rears and on each side of the TV towed in aiming at my shoulders... that too made a Big difference in my small den. I am very happy with my system now that I have adjusted them.

Thank you for reminding me of those. I agree those would be better pointed at the MLP.

I was referring to the Reference IV and V series and forgot about the older ones with the woofer on the front.

Sorry about that.

Speaking of all these placement topics, I'm about to start experimenting.

If ya'll remember, I have LS up front, RS62's on the sides and Heresy in the rear. Room is 32' deep x 17.5' wide.

Because I wanted the sides hidden in columns, the RS62's are about 9-12" in front of my main LP. Never cared for it, but didn't have an option. I convinced myself that running the Heresy a little hotter in the rear of the room would help "pull" the sound behind me. I know....sometimes rationalizing can make you believe silly things.

Anyway, it's always bugged me. So I got to thinking. Why not ceiling mount the RS62's? I could place them exactly where they should be along the length of the room. They would be high, but still aiming right at the LP.

It boils down to the lesser of the two compromises...mounted too far forward vs. too high.

With my dark ceilings, they would disappear in the ceiling, so aesthetics don't really factor in. Or, I plan to build coffered ceilings at some point, and could hide them in the beams.

Any thoughts?

Heck Yeah ! experiment with them RS's by placing on the ceiling the one horn on each speaker is actually going to be aimed at the seating & you still will have one horn bouncing the sound off a side wall as well .
. Want them Heresy's to stand out ? Convert them into CS-1's they will really sing then . CS-1 is a night & day difference in SQ over a plain Heresy , the CS-1 would keep up with the LaSacalas

About converting a Heresy to CS-1... Heresy II as well?
How difficult would it be to replace the motorboard? (Still a $600 modification, minus selling parts in ebay)

That's what I thought Mike. One horn blows into the center of the room and the other to the outside wall where it can still give the diffused reflected quality. It is worth a try. I'm not to sensative to some of the finer points anyway.

I feel like the plain Heresy do a fine job of keeping up with the LS while in surround duty. I would entertain a small upgrade, but I couldn't see putting more than $100 into them. One reason I went Heresy in the first place was that they were $300. No way I'd put more in them. Definitely not the $600 to get them to HeresyII. I'd just sell them and find another pair of LS. Hmmmm....time to stop this conversation before I spend money!

a simple cut-out of the motor board is all that is needed the existing holes for the tweeter & mid horn are included in the cut-out needed for the horn in a CS-1 I did 2 Heresy's myself
here's the pix of them
these were also wrapped in 3/4" Oak plywood & I added trim as well

old Heresy parts & any old Klipsch parts sell Very Well on Ebay there even resellers that buy old Klipsch parts as they resell them in Europe . i sold my Cornwall parts at price that paid about 3/4 of the costs to upgrade the Cornies to CornScalas most was sold thru the Klipsch forum I could have got even more If I had sold those parts on Ebay .Bob Crties even bought some of the Cornwall parts himself .

He is correct. I have extra K-700 horns (metal) K-55-V drivers and and a spare pair of K-77-M tweeters that I have been asked to sell several times. We purchased the Corwalls new when I was in my late 20's and 30 plus years later all the drivers are still orginal. I did purchase new Crites cross over boards (Type "B") worried old oil filled caps would leak like my Revox R2R recorder did (same age as Corns) I thought about a new motor board for my HII to mod(I have to stay off Crites web site) but they too have been in the family from day one and I hate to cut on them. For rear surround your Heresy (stock) should be fine I had mine as my rears and Corns as fronts with a RC-62 center......... sounds great on HT Blurays. My HII are on stands now and fronts in the bedroom with subs. I use RS3-II mounted on the wall 6 feet behind the sofa aimed down at your back.
For HT use the RS3-II in the small den are great surrounds.They blended in with Corns and RC-62 just fine after I ran the room correction program in my AVR again and used my SPL meter to fine tune the 5.2 system. I was suprised you can use Reference and Heritage (timber thing)together in a HT system and it sounds great. My guess is my small room and setting up my Cornwall fronts as "SMALL" in the room correction program. Did you try the Heresy as Fronts with a sub?This works is great for stereo......HT was great too. Just a thought for someting for you to try.

Sounds like our case, a small room with seating at the back. Due to the size of the room, the surround speakers are essentially in the corners.

Is there much of a difference between the series II speakers and series I?
If so, I'm inclined to pick up a pair of RB61-II's, a RC62-II, and put the three of them up front, with our existing series 1 RB61s at the rear.

Open to ideas...
Mike

Hey guys,

I just recently moved and just got done setting up my klipsch speakers and AV, and noticed that when there is alot of volume activity coming through the center channel, it sounds majorly distorted or clipped.

My current setup consists of a Pioneer Elite reciever, Klipsch RC64 Center and Klipsch RF-5s for the Front speakers (no rears yet ) and a PS3 set to use Linear PCM. I did the MCACC auto calibration - but it didnt fix the problem. I vaguely remember having to set up something a certain way to avoid this problem in the past, but I cant remember!

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

I have an elite and a 64... I have zero issues. there IS a separate center speaker volume control if you look... perhaps it is max'ed out by accident.

is your polarity reversed?

Can anyone recommend a speaker stand for the RB-81 iis?

Thanks!

Sounds good.

There's not a discernable sound difference between the Reference IV and Reference V (-II). The IIs will be lighter because they use some kind of new voodoo magnet technology that allows a smaller magnet.

Other than that, you can see the cosmetic differences.

Has anyone listened to the THX Ultra 2? Im in the process of building a home theater which may take awhile so I dont want just built in speakers. I wanted something I can listen to now and later build them into my theater room. I liked the idea of the Klipsch THX Ultra 2 for that reason and the fact they dropped to around $800.00 for each speaker. Was thinking of 3 KL650's and pair of Ks525 for rears. I may add 2 sides later. Either the KS or KL525. depends on whether I want dipole or direct firing sound.
Just curious if there were any comparisons. Also curious as to what other speaker they are compared too. My local dealer does not sell the Ultra series Klipsch. (just the cheaper speakers) So I will have to buy, then return in 30 days if I dont like them.

* forgot to mention I may add the Denon 4311 or similar integra amp. The sales rep stated its only 140wpc in (2 channel modes, when playing all 7-9ch its more like 75wpc) Is this true? It stated its a monoblock design. I assumed it discretly played all channels with 140wpc. Or is he just trying to upsell me a more expensive amp? ic. McIntosh, Parasound Halo, etc. Should I use a seperate amp for power and buy a cheap pre with the codecs for surround sound? thanks for your thoughts..