I have a pair of the 8.5s and am very pleased with them. They are used now as rear surrounds and work well with the rest of the system that is Klipsch. Gene is right that they are a love em or hate em type speaker (most horn speakers are), but properly setup and with good amplification I find...
I have the middle brother (KLF 20) and can say that they are a fine choice for movies. They also work very well with music, but having said that as noted above they are horn loaded and have a unique sound that some people don't like. I find it is a "live, you're there" sound which I like. One...
With the receiver and the sub about $6000, but thats CDN dollars. When I bought the stuff the dollar was about 75 cents so doing some quick math about $4500 USD.
I own a pair of the aforementioned KLF 20s Wonderful sounding speakers. It was a real shame that they stopped making them as I would recommend them to anyone. The RF7 come very close in tonal response. Having said that they are Horn Loaded which has a distinct sound. Most people either love it...
A true purist would say replace it. You said it sounded fine, so I wouldn't worry about it. Then again, if it bugs you to leave it that way, get another tweeter, carefully replace it and keep the one you took out in a safe place in case you cook another one. On that note, if you are frying...
When listening to a DTS multichannel audio DVD, At times the song "clips". It doesn't matter the volume so its not the receiver clipping, DTS encoded video DVDs are fine so the Toslink cable is OK, SACD works fine via the six channel output (Why DTS doesn't support that I'll never figure out!)...
Home Theater
Mains Klipsch KLF 20
Center Klipsch KLF C7
Rears Klipsch KSF 8.5
Sub HSU VTF3 Mk2
Bar Area
Vintage 1978 JBL L100s
Games area
Vintage 1978 Celestion Ditton 662s
Tell him to get the HSU VT 12 and one of their subs. Haven't heard the system but lots of great reviews. I've got one of their subs (VTF3 MKII). Killer sub! The size of the speakers and budget fit the parameters given.
I agree with Egbert. I was looking at LCD RPTV and loved the colours but that was about it. All of the other faults Stuck pixels etc. were a real disappointment. I went with a Toshiba DLP (52HM84) and love it. I can see the rainbow effect if I try, but otherwise no problem. Reasonable price and...
My advise is to purchase a Toshiba 4960 ($200 Audio Empire Toronto). It plays everything. The only drawback from your requirements is that there is no HDMI input, but when you consider that a DVD has only 480 lines of resolution, I think that you would find it difficult if not impossible to...
If you spend 10 large on equipment, then cheap out, unwilling to part with a couple hundred bucks for cables, you deserve what you get. Viewing HD material in person, I suspect even the most uninitiated eye would see a difference. Good Equipment deserves good cables. Cool idea though
You would still need something from your cable company (box or cable card). If you have an ATSC tuner though, why not just pick up the network channels over the air using an antenna?
Anybody that says "this is crap or that brand is crap" is full of crap. I e-mailed the guys at SVS and they were top notch in their service and recomendations. I would have bought the SVS (20-39 PC plus) except by the time I did the exchange rate thing, brokerage fees etc. it became too...