And welcome to the forum AV.. Nice to see "pros" in here anytime.. 

IndyKlipschFan:

 

Allthough I would be suprised if the Klipsch THX system could compete with my Heritage based setup !

Seriously

Droopy...

Seriously, you can come here and get a demo of a little of both.. hehehehehehehehe 

It is just different.. I wish I could get the three 650's up front for a demo too someday?  Maybe someone in Indy who orders them, will bring em over to see?   But if you like that K horn / La Scala dynamic sound... Hard to go to something different.  A jube system?? Again, the wow factor is off the charts as well.

I will say this... That newer palladium system is just awesome... That in any HT will ROCK!  

I must now say , no how , no way could it compete ! OK , so the satellites have a tiny bit better frequency response than my Belles . The efficiency is way down and my sub will dig deeper . As far as space considerations go the THX system wins though .

Now assuming we add music into the equation ...

 Sunburn...

Consider I have in my dedicated HT

7 La Scalas 

Ka 1000 amp with 2 of the THX subs

And 2 of the THX side surrounds

all in a 17 x 28 roughly room.  106" screen

It's very dynamic, as I am sure you feel it in yours too.  People outside this hobby drool when they come over to your place I bet?  They do in mine!

The 650's might be more directional, and should have some higher highs maybe?  Especially 3 up front and 2 in the back?  That said... hard to move away from the classic Heritage sound if you like it?  I doubt either of us are losing any sleep over this?  hahahahahaha

Enjoy the day!  

Thanks Roger .

BTW , I find it hard to believe you need the side surrounds . My set up is in a 16 x 22 room and I have no need to step up to 7.1 . 5.1 will overload the room just fine at about 120 db !

 hehehehehe

I thik it is more for me to fill in the sides... I played around with it to be a all La Scala...which works too... but the fill factor was not right.  (for surrounds,  I think I prefered the KS 525's for movies to spray it a bit.  Timbre wise always use the same three up front!)  

I could put the tops of the La scalas up there... but what to do with the bottoms is the problem in a 17' wide room..??

But the sounds going behind you in 7.1 say as a plane flies over is just awesome....in 7.1.  

I still play around some.. but if you come out here in June, stop by for sure and hear for yourself..... 

Roger 

For the dreamers in here.... my neighbor is but a few weeks away with three of these up front...

http://www.klipsch.com/media/products/cut-sheets/kpt-325-cut-sheet-080326.pdf

Drool... I think???? I cant wait to hear them.. He is using 4 subs...so 2 of the Klipsch THX KA 1000 amps and 4 of the THX 120 subs too.

 His room is "Architechtual Digest"  material... So all the side and rear surrounds are the THX KS and KL 7800 Inwalls from Klipsch.

I am very happy I steered him down this path, I can't wait to see n hear the results.. If he allows it I will post some pics.. It will be the fanciest dedicated HT  theater I have ever been in I am sure.

I would love to get a A vs B on this though....  Granted, I have the older La Scalas too...

Klipsch 325...

sunburnwilly:

Thanks Roger .

BTW , I find it hard to believe you need the side surrounds . My set up is in a 16 x 22 room and I have no need to step up to 7.1 . 5.1 will overload the room just fine at about 120 db !

I agree with you also that 5.1 can fill a room no problem. But with Blu-Ray now encoding a lot of the discs in 7.1 it sure would be nice to be able to take advantage of this. If you have ever heard a really nice 7.1 home theater with a true 7.1 decoded disc it’s a pretty amazing experience. Our THX Theater is 5.1 and not big enough for a 7.1 set up but I really wish I had the room to add in the rear surrounds. We just did a 7.1 with the THX In-walls and played Hairspray Blu-ray and it was truly awesome. 

I was at Roger's last weekend watching Cloverfields and there were a couple times where his THX surround really came to life. Purpose-built surrounds in the correct position do much more good in his theater than another set of LSIsplits in the rear corners. It's all about placment, and the processor makes up the difference in timing and volume.

It works very well for Roger and I've heard a ton of home theaters. Good move Roger!

M

 Your very gracious Michael..

I know there is a "Science"...and a "ART" to all of this.. If I can be so bold to say this too.... A little "luck factor"  as well in getting all of your equipment to work together interface wise to bring the best out of each step of the process.

I know in "Flight of the Phoenix," when that plane flies over you, it really feels like it, especially with those two big props spinning...

In "Cloverfield" on the bridge scene where cables are splitting all around you and behind too...And that bridge gives out in front of you...YOU FEEL like your on that bridge for sure!

Even in the THX blue exploding ball when it explodes through you....it feels like it was shot through you because of the rear speaker too.

Movies in DD EX and DTS ES go even farther.  And with Blue Ray looks like more coming out in 7.1. 

Like the AV guy said.. Set up well, you just get immursed in the whole story...... And that is the point.

get RF-83s all the way around.  That will sound better than THX. 

Hello,

Is that with a sub, in your opinion?

Thanks!

For ht?

You will always need a good sub or two..