Front main (right) tower not producing treble when connected to lower firing ports.

[Monster The Josh]

Hey folks, noob to the forums here but I had a question to anyone who may have some insight please. I will try to be brief.

Has anyone had their front speakers bi amped, then for whatever reason you went back to single amped front speakers and you are not getting treble out of one of the speakers? The Klipsch speakers need the lower set of firing ports to be used when its not being bi-amped so that is what I have them on now, but I noticed the RF treble speaker isn't working when I do that. However, when I wire the RF speaker to the upper firing ports only, then I DO hear treble but no bass. It is as if the speaker thinks it is still being bi-amped even though it isn't, and the amps I've tested it with are set correctly to the 5.1 setup, (not bi amped etc) any more. The front left speaker has no issues, I hear treble and bass when its wired to the lower ports just fine.

Has anyone had this happen and is there any advice you can give me, or does this sound like an issue for Klipsch to fix? I'm mostly certain it isn't an issue with the amp configuration because I've tried it on 2 different amps with the same result.
First amp was Denon X4000 and the current amp is another Denon.

The speakers are Klipsch RF 82 IIs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much.

 

[Swerd]

Has anyone had their front speakers bi amped, then for whatever reason you went back to single amped front speakers and you are not getting treble out of one of the speakers?

The Klipsch speakers need the lower set of firing ports to be used when its not being bi-amped so that is what I have them on now, but I noticed the RF treble speaker isn't working when I do that. However, when I wire the RF speaker to the upper firing ports only, then I DO hear treble but no bass. It is as if the speaker thinks it is still being bi-amped even though it isn't, and the amps I've tested it with are set correctly to the 5.1 setup, (not bi amped etc) any more. The front left speaker has no issues, I hear treble and bass when its wired to the lower ports just fine.

If you connect one set of speaker wires between the amp and the speaker, use the brass links (bridging plate in the picture below) that connect the upper and lower terminals, as shown below:

If you can't find those plates, short lengths of wire will work as well.

Only your right speaker does this? And your left speaker is OK? Does your left speaker still have the links in place?

By "ports" do you mean speaker wire terminals?

 

[Verdinut]

Hey folks, noob to the forums here but I had a question to anyone who may have some insight please. I will try to be brief.

Has anyone had their front speakers bi amped, then for whatever reason you went back to single amped front speakers and you are not getting treble out of one of the speakers? The Klipsch speakers need the lower set of firing ports to be used when its not being bi-amped so that is what I have them on now, but I noticed the RF treble speaker isn't working when I do that. However, when I wire the RF speaker to the upper firing ports only, then I DO hear treble but no bass. It is as if the speaker thinks it is still being bi-amped even though it isn't, and the amps I've tested it with are set correctly to the 5.1 setup, (not bi amped etc) any more. The front left speaker has no issues, I hear treble and bass when its wired to the lower ports just fine.

Has anyone had this happen and is there any advice you can give me, or does this sound like an issue for Klipsch to fix? I'm mostly certain it isn't an issue with the amp configuration because I've tried it on 2 different amps with the same result.
First amp was Denon X4000 and the current amp is another Denon.

The speakers are Klipsch RF 82 IIs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much.

To bi-amplify your speakers, you had to remove jumpers between the the top terminals feeding the tweeter and the bottom for the woofer. If so, you would have to reconnect the jumpers back to hear the low frequencies.

 

[markw]

There should be jumpers between the lower two speaker terminals and the upper ones They had to be removed when the speakers were prepared for bi-amping or bi-wiring. When going back to single wiring, they need to be replaced.

If you can't find them, speaker wire will work just as well.

 

[Monster The Josh]

I think you guys nailed it. I forgot about that, but I have the left speaker rigged with connectors I had to make but the one that isn't working doens't have them. Thanks folks.

That leads to a 2nd question, I seem to recall those connectors pictured above aren't sold by Klipsch specifically. Does anyone have a good recommendation on where a guy could purchase a set of them that work with Klipsch Rf 82 iIs?

Thanks again, very helpful folks!

 

[Monster The Josh]

There should be jumpers between the lower two speaker terminals and the upper ones They had to be removed when the speakers were prepared for bi-amping or bi-wiring. When going back to single wiring, they need to be replaced.

If you can't find them, speaker wire will work just as well.

Thank you, I will try the speaker wire!

 

[HTfreak2004]

You could get really pretty and use a pair of bi-wire banana terminals at the speaker end. One set for the top binding post and one for the bottom with the a 10 AWG wire to bridge the binding posts then plug the main speaker run into the back of one of the biwire adapter ports and show off your handy work to make things look audiophile(-:

 

[Monster The Josh]

Thanks folks, you were correct about the connector between the terminals. I made one out of speaker wire and it is working great. Greatly appreciated!