after 25 years of other priorities in life i can now put some of our resouces into some fun stuff for us. 

with a limited budget i've decided to pursue used equipment.

i'll be using this 75 music / 25 HT in a great room approx 30x35' with a sloped ceiling that rises up to 18' against a wall where the components will be placed. my wife doesn't care for surround sound and i prefer music so i can put the $$ into better front speakers.

for consideration are...

both demos...RF7 $1200 or RF5 $879 with a sub to come in the future to make up for the bass.

powered by a Denon 2803 receiver $290

will also be looking for a center channel speaker.  

your comments are appreciated.

Go with the RF-7s, you will love them. Denon is a solid choice as well. Try to get your hands on an RC-7 for a center to perfectly match the RF-7.

Welcome!  A room like that deserves K-horns (I'm jealous)!  They should fill that room full of sound nicely.  I would seriously consider purchasing a used pair, but they might be out of your budget??

However, given the items for consideration above, I wouldn't go with anything less than the 7's.  I think you will be disappointed driving the 7's in a room like that with a 2803, but the 2803 might be a good place for you start and you can easily add more/better quality power to that setup later, particularly if your budget is currently strained. 

-PB

was leaning towards 7's.

what do you think about the pricing? i'm in hawaii so my choices are limited unless going on-line and paying freight.

Vital:

Try to get your hands on an RC-7 for a center

GET THE 7'S!   

Pulled the trigger and picked up a pair of almost mint 7's (only grill prongs were damaged but they also had two new grills). didn't notice an RC-7 to the side. dealer discounted half off along with another 400 for the trio just trying to move along "older inventory".    

won't have a place to enjoy them for about 4 months until i finish renovating the house. oh well, can't get better incentive than that.  waited for my girls to grow up. now i can be the kid again. wanted a pair of horns since i was introduced to them in the late 70's when my uncles friend had a distributorship but cost as much as my car. 

now looking for a receiver possibly denon 3808. again rather find better used stuff than lesser new unit for my $$. any other suggestions? thanks to everyone on the blog helping me to kick start purchasing decisions. 

Congrats! Seven's are Heaven, so to speak

Have mine for a while now, lovely to look at and to listen to

for both music and HT too here's a quick shot taken of my

setup, there's an RC7 just beneath that Samsung slimfit HD CRT

BARELY fit in there on that shelf but sounds a lot nicer lower than

when it was on top of my old cabinet RF7's system

Was looking at a Denon just the other day, well on line, might move up

from the Sony I have now, it's fairly decent receiver, but getting upgraditis again...

G2

Thanks G2,

yes, i was wondering how i was gonna set up the RC7. just started to look for stereo furniture. an option is to start with kitchen cabinets eg: kraftmaid and configure from there. any ideas?

boy the RF-7's shure dwarf the samsung. what size is the screen?  my wife may "force me" into something that doesn't get swallowed up by the speakers (hehe).   i don't consider myself an "audiophile", just know what i like, enjoying live/good music so purchases will have to live with me for a while.

V8

wow...what dealer had the rf-7's and rc-7's there?   

It's a modest size TV, 30" diagonal, went for that instead of LCD for right now

just like the looks of a CRT and will wait for the faster refresh times that I'm sure will be coming.

This one is also a High Def tv, 1080i, works great, looks great...

I had the RF3's before but I didn't think they were as musical, where the RF7's just have more

presence to them, also have a velodyne sub but the RF7's have a good amount of ummph to them

all by themselves.

The stand I picked out for it's clean look, trimmed back on my components so everything fits pretty

well on that, it's a Bello stand, here's a Link

that has a better view of what it looks like.

The speakers are just about even with the top of the tv, so it sort of 'looks' right, at least to me

G2

InVeNtOR:

wow...what dealer had the rf-7's and rc-7's there?   

I was at a dealer in Overland Park KS (Kansas City) and they still had a pair of RF7's in the box. They also had demo units of the RF5, and RB75, RB35. The older series are definately still out there in the stores. They also had alot of used Mac gear for sale. Very nice people in that store. I must have hung around for about 2 hours talking with the salesman and demoing various gear.  

WOW G2, I am surprised the RC-7 fit in that stand, the specs say 7 inches for the shelve height, I know my RC-7 is 9 inches tall.  Looks like maybe their height was limited by the support beam for the glass and you did not have to run your RC-7 back far enough to be under that beam.  Does the RC-7 have to "hang off" the shelf any to fit there?, I couldn't tell from your picture.

It looks nice, I think your next upgrade should be a 50 inch plasma display, it would fit very well there.

Well, it BARELY fits, here is a quick image of the speaker from the side, you can see that the top glass and middle glass TIGHTLY sandwich the speaker, it doesn't overhang too much, but you'd not want anything larger in there!

 As to a larger tv, once they get the refresh rates better I may upgrade, for now, I am partial to the crt look, just so tight!

I think I might get a new dvd player that upconverts to 1080i as my tv is High Def, just not sure how the dvd's will look, I don't want things looking plasticty like I've seen some sets look, so I'm hesistant to get one, Bestbuy has a 5 disc Sony for $116 that's tempting...

G2