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(More customer reviews)My RF-82 pair serve as a stand-alone units for music listening (I also have a Klipsch HD-1000 set up in a smaller area for watching video).
The receiver, a Denon 830, is located in the video room about 50 feet away, but even with that long cable run the RF-82s are capable of filling the whole house with sound. The RF-82 is remarkably more efficient than previous speakers I've had in the same location (Altec Model 9, Bose 501, and an amazing but doomed pair of KEF 107s, victims of six months of humid isolation following the levee failures in 2005). The KEFs had particularly crisp and strong bass, as would be expected with twin 12" drivers mounted in massive towers, but to my surprise I found the RF-82s to be both stronger and flatter, especially with extreme low end sources such as orchestral bass drum and pipe organs. These speakers even revealed previously undetected nuance in the "All Things Considered" theme song.
Reviews and forum postings have no shortage of praise for the RF-82's ability with electronic and rock music, or as part of home theater system. But here the primary diet of my RF-82s is old-fashioned 2-channel orchestral and vocal material, and I am thrilled with the sound. Highs are sharp, as I expected from experience with other Klipsch products, but I was pleasantly surprised by the clarity across mid-ranges. The sense of placement with stereo material is remarkable. A listener can pick out a singer at "1:30" and not just "somewhere to the right". I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the remixed Beatles catalog sounds great coming through them.
I would have liked to have heard these speakers side-by-side with the RF-63 and -83's, but I had neither the time nor budget.
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