Buy Klipsch RF-62 II Reference Series Floorstanding Loudspeaker - Each (Black)Klipsch RF-62 II Reference Series Floorstanding Loudspeaker - Each (Black) Product Description:
- A great balance of performance and value
- Fills large rooms with outstanding sound reproduction
- Equally impressive with music and movies
- Highly efficient design produces more output using less energy
- Accurate, non-fatiguing sound provides hours of listening pleasure
Product Description
Because compromise is never an option for us, the Reference Series RF-62 II tower speaker definitely stands out in the crowd. It affordably offers up everything you've never heard in your favorite music and movies before. The RF-52 II tower speaker offers up no-compromise music and movie performances in a smaller, more affordable floorstanding design. In fact, with its dynamic quality, superior sound and visual appeal, you'll find this speaker simply irresistible. A great balance of performance and value Fills large rooms with outstanding sound reproduction Equally impressive with music and movies Highly efficient design produces more output using less energy Accurate, non-fatiguing sound provides hours of listening pleasure Plays louder with less distortion than the competition Enhanced 1" titanium horn-loaded tweeter, dual 6.5" high-output woofers Dimensions: 40.6" H x 8.5" W x 15.5" D Beautiful wood-grain vinyl veneer cabinetBecause compromise is never an option for Klipsch, the Reference Series RF-62 II tower speaker definitely stands out in the crowd. It affordably offers up everything you've never heard in your favorite music and movies before. The RF-62 II is complete with proprietary Tractrix® Horn technology which produces a unique combination of precision, clarity and effortless power. Finished in a beautiful light cherry or black woodgrain vinyl veneer, the RF-62 II is guaranteed to complement any décor. New and Improved Now in its fifth generation, Ref
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
A True Reference
By MakitaGuy
My relationship with Klipsch started when I purchased a Pioneer VSX-1020-K 7.1 Home Theater Receiver and the Klispch HD Theater 1000, to replace a Bose® CineMate® Series II Digital Home Theater Speaker System for our living room. Not being able to convince the wife away from the commercial draw of Bose and the simple plug and play setup of the CineMate, I got to enjoy the crisp 5.1 satellite surround sound in my small 10' x 12' man cave. Needless to say, the setup was fantastic and the Advanced MCACC in the Pioneer balanced out the Klipsch system and created a truly enveloping sound.Impressed with the setup, I moved the everything down to the living room (26' x 14'), re-ran the Advanced MCACC, and tested a few movies and music. What a disappointment. Even with the 200 watt RPW-10 in the corner, the inadequate frequency range of the satellites were exposed in the larger room. The once enveloping sound was now hollow and one-dimensional.On the bittersweet day that I learned a local big box Electronics store had declared bankruptcy, the advertised 50% off speakers/accessories was the perfect opportunity to enhance my home theater setup. I was able to sit in the home theater showroom and repeatedly test different brands/models, narrowing down my options to Definitive Tech and Klipsch (The comparable Polk, Yamaha, Mirage didn't impress me with the models they had available). I ended up comparing the Mythos 5 and the Klipsch RF 62 II for my floor standing speakers to anchor my new surround sound setup. Both were excellent speakers, but there was something about Klipsch's sound that was so evocative that I always found myself measuring each product by whether I liked it as much as the Reference line. I walked out that day with RF 62 IIs and a RC 52 II (Come on, an amazing center channel for $170 bucks. Who can pass on that deal?).I bi-wired the RF 62 II with Monster XPHPCIBIG100 and connected everything with QuickLock MK II Gold Banana Connectors (Anyone who wants to make any criticisms of my choice to use Monster products in spite of their outrageous pricing can freely send me an e-mail at MyMoney@NotYours.com) At first, there was a disturbing harshness to the tweeters that could only be described as too detailed. While this was unnoticeable when listening to sound effects for movies and television, music was punchy and lacked flow. Reading that this is typically the result of new speakers, I was very relieved that these issues slowly went away with use and completely disappeared after the break-in period. What was left was a very natural and organic sound that had originally won me over in the showroom. The bass is tight and loud and coupled with the RPW 10 will make the floor shake. I couldn't be happier with this purchase and would strongly recommend the RF 62 II to anyone who is in the market to build a high quality home theater system without breaking the bank."You have to remember that speakers are an investment. Materials and construction may improve over time, but the core technology hasn't and probably won't. A great sounding speaker today, if treated well, will still be a great sounding speaker 20 years from now."
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.Opinion After Six Months and Hundreds of Hours!
By Andrew Schlegel
I record classical music for a living in Philadelphia. After assigning myself a budget and auditioning many brands and models, I purchased these speakers for my apartment, and I've had them for six months (I didn't buy them from Amazon, but I wanted my review to be available to the many people who might be searching the internet to help them make or validate a purchasing decision). I've spent countless hours with them, and every time I sit down to listen to them, I still find myself in awe of their abilities, especially at their price point. They're phenomenal. I am completely drawn in by their sound. I am routinely covered by goosebumps and moved to tears by my favorite recordings, such is their faithful ability to re-communicate fine works of art in a way that wins my heart. I am an extremely picky person, too.I live within walking distance of the studio for which I work, and I often listen to an album (sometimes my own work) up at the studio on our reference monitors (which are B&W Matrix 801s powered by a Bryston 4B--an excellent system even by persnickety audiophile standards) and then bring it home to my humble Klipsch RF-62IIs powered by an equally humble NAD C326BEE. I tell you the truth: every time, I am just as involved emotionally, just as pleased by the width and depth of the soundstage, just as shocked by the "ghost musicians" that sound like they're playing and singing between my speakers, and just as interested in the color and detail of what I'm hearing. I'm not saying that they're equivalent to our studio speakers, because they most certainly are not, but the RF-62IIs are astounding in their ability to compete, and they do it in a way that is very pretty from top to bottom, throughout the frequency range.The internet is rife with speaker reviews given by people who haven't spent much time studying the relationship between loudspeakers and the physical space that they're in. Tweaking the placement of the speakers in their space and reducing salient acoustic problems is SO important, no matter what product you own. If you do it right, these speakers will reward you with output that can rival some of the best equipment money can buy (I think so--that's why I bought them).Give them your consideration, they deserve it!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.Powerful, Rich and well-Balanced
By DaveRockerVA
This does lead to the RF-62 - just bare with me:I've been listening to a pair of JBLs with 8" woofers, 4" mids and 1" titanium domes in them for 17 years and loving the power punch and clarity of the bass in them. I just blew the speakers in my car and bought new ones - the best JBL makes - and they super-rock. Powerful, clean bass and clear mids and highs. The foams started tearing on my JBLs at home and rather than re-foam them I used this as an excuse to buy newer, better speakers for my home system.So I bought the JBL L890 towers - online - without listening to them - dual 8" woofers with 4" mids and a titanium 1" dome - and a super-tweeter. They sounded good but the bass was not as powerful as my car. It was deep but lacked the punch I love. Over time I grew to love my car system and dislike my home system. I absolutely had to get something that sounded as good as what was in my car - in my home. And that would not be easy!So I went on a mission to find the right speakers. I visited many places and heard almost every brand of speaker in the $1000 per speaker or below category. I listened to Energy: good clean sound but the bass was not very rich - not impressive. Def Tech - those towers are nothing more than a center speaker sitting on top of a sub-woofer - with a high price tag. Seriously. Martin Logan: (Motion 40) the bass was very rich and clear but had little punch - they had these huge midrange on top right in your face pumping out way too much mids and a dinky little piezo? tweeter that I could barely hear - and a large price tag. Bowers & Wilkins: same as ML. Polk TSi: same as Energy. Polk RTi: same as Def Tech. EMP tek: same as Def Tech.Then I found the Klipsch reference (not the Icons) - the RF-82 with the dual 8" woofers sounded very much like the JBL L890 with less in the middle. But then I heard these speakers that sounded just like my car. Powerful bass. Clear. Clean. The right mix of bass, mids and highs. They were the RF-62 - the reference speakers with dual 6.5" woofers. I listened to every brand of speaker listed above that day and every time I heard another speaker I got the guy to go back to "those" (I didn't even know what they were at the time) and "those" sounded so much better to me. I really enjoyed the sound of "those" speakers. Nothing else had that same mix of power and clarity. I fell in love with "those" speakers - they were the Klipsch RF-62 II. I sent back the JBL L890 and bought the RF-62 II and got an RC-52 center while I was at it.The smaller woofers played a big part in the sound. 20 years ago I fell in love with the sound of high-quality 8" woofers. Deep enough yet powerful and clean. I bought dual 8" woofers thinking it would be the sound I love - times 2. It's not. Physics tells us that dual 8" woofers are more like an 11" woofer. Think about it - the sounds coming out of the dual 8" woofers are what - 700 Hz and below (in my JBLs)? The wavelength of a 500Hz sound wave is 2 feet. That's greater than the space they both occupy. Which means the sound they produce will combine to act like one woofer. You cannot not combine their sound - not with them beside each other. There are also wiring challenges that prevent them each from drawing the same power from your amp that the mids and tweeters draw. The point is: a dual 8" woofer tower is like an 11.3" woofer. The dual 6.5" woofer tower is like a 9.2" woofer, the dual 5.25" like a 7.4" woofer, dual 4" like a 5.7" woofer and dual 6" like a 8.5" woofer.If you're like me and you're new to the towers with dual woofers - do not equate the sound you expect from them with what a single woofer that size would sound like - they're not the same at all. The bass coming out of the RF-62 II is deeper and richer than any 8" woofer I've ever heard. They remind me of the highest-quality Infinity 10" woofers from the disco years. Seriously, that's what these speakers remind me of - as far as sound - of the Infinity towers - although the old Infinity's probably had higher "jamnitude" - these speakers will blow you out of the room - more than loud enough for me. I have 120W per channel and they'll take it. The bass will distort at full volume on Lady Gaga or any "enriched" music with unusually deep bass. But that's so out there it doesn't even count on my scorecard (every other speaker on the market this size does too)I imagine the JBL L880 would please me as well - but I cannot find them in any stores to listen to them. I cannot afford to send back yet another pair of speakers. The speaker hunt ends with Klipsch RF-62 II - and i'm very happy about that.I will admit - the JBL L890 (with a Def Tech Pro Center 2000) sounded better for HT. The deep powerful Klipsch sound doesn't lend itself well to movies unless you like a loud, thundering experience. For HT - they sound pretty good but loud. Be warned.I do not see much need for a sub with these either. Certainly not for music. For HT - maybe - just maybe an 8" or 10" sub to add more realism. And that's only because having the deep bass spreading out across the room from a sub sounds more realistic than having it boomed right at you by your fronts.Out of the box they sound bright - almost irritating - too much in the 3kHz to 8kHz range - and the bass is a little boomy. But that goes away with break-in. It does take a long time for these to completely break-in too. Be aware of that! AND - you need to move them at least 16" - ideally at least 2' - away from the wall - to sound best (they have rear ports).
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