AUDIO:
For me, this is where it all began: With the selection of the AUDIO equipment. And why shouldn't audio be first? It's what I know the most about and have the most experience with. I have been "in tune" with audio ever since my parents bought me my own, first phonograph or "record player" ("turntable" for you youngsters), for my twelfth birthday. That was in 1963, the year when the Beatles first appeared in this country on TV on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'. The record player as monophonic and it was a Silvertone made by Sears. I practically wore that thing out over the next 5 years, when suddenly, seemingly out-of-nowhere-came 8-Track Tape Cartridges.
8 tracks were all the rage! True stereophonic sound that you could play in your home, or in your car! My father rushed right out and bought a table top unit that also had an AM/FM tuner built in. The unit came with two speakers and it had a left and right auxiliary speaker output on the back panel. Those two RCA jacks were the beginning of a beautiful friendship. They offered expansion and experimentation. My father placed his 8-track unit in the family den on the first floor of our house. My bedroom was upstairs on the second floor. Before long, I was making plans on how I was going to build my own two speakers and get some very long cords so I could tap into the back of that 8 track box via the RCA plugs. Before long, I was listening to the sounds of the Moody Blues in my own bedroom. The sounds were emanating from a pair of speaker boxes I had built myself using particle board and two 8" raw speakers I purchased from the local Olson Electronics store (a hobbyist's chain store back in the late 1960's)
From that time-on a portion of my life has always been spend t in the pursuit of better quality sound. As I am sure you can imagine, I have enjoyed owning some very nice speakers and sound gear over the years. I have also worked in professional sound reinforcement for both live shows and recording studios.
Therefore, when my wife and I embarked on our "adventure" to find the right sound system (we do everything together), we both had a mental picture of what we were looking for in terms of the system's physical appearance, as well as how it should perform. After visiting several stereo shops and auditioning 10 different brands of speakers, we knew that Klipsch was our number one choice for our theater.
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Model 7 Reference Series Speakers
^ (Above) Small House Theater's speaker compliment:
Our theater uses each of the above speakers. It has two RF-7s, one for the front right channel and the other one for the front left channel (each flanking our viewing screen). Immediately below our screen is one RC-7 Center channel speaker. On each of the two side walls of the theater and about six feet off the floor there is one RS-7 surround speaker, one for the left side surround and the other for the right side surround. On the rear wall of our theater are two RCW-5 In-wall speakers which serve as our left and right-rear channels. And, finally, we have a 15 inch, 1,000 Watt (RMS) RSW-15 self-powered subwoofer that ensures the low end can be heard and felt with realism.