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Klipsch RF-82

First seen: 4 march 2007

Information found in: from 34 sources in 16 countries.

Best Price: 549.00 USD

  • User Score (46)
    9.4 9.4 from 46 reviewers
  • Expert Score (2)
    7.5 7.5 from 2 reviewers
  • Ease of use (2)
    10 10 from 2 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • easy to connect, forthcoming sound, great bass, sound imaging is amazing, easy to mount
  • heavy bulky, lack subtlety, didn 39, t buy them sooner

Klipsch RF-82

The Klipsch RF-82 is a high-performance floor standing tower loudspeaker designed with high-end materials and slender shape that offers an exceptional combination of sound and style. It comes with dual high-output Cerametallic woofers providing intense bass response with astonishing speed and accuracy, also Professional-grade titanium dome compression driver and it is available in Black Ash wood grain vinyl finish and comes with a low-diffraction and magnetically attached grille.

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Klipsch RF-82

The Klipsch RF-82 is a high-performance floor standing tower loudspeaker designed with high-end materials and slender shape that offers an exceptional combination of sound and style. It comes with dual high-output Cerametallic woofers providing intense bass response with astonishing speed and accuracy, also Professional-grade titanium dome compression driver and it is available in Black Ash wood grain vinyl finish and comes with a low-diffraction and magnetically attached grille.

Features

The Klipsch RF-82 is designed with a Tractrix Horns technology that includes improved throat geometry for a more genuine, lifelike sound combined with a professional-grade 1-inch titanium diaphragm compression driver with a large ceramic motor structure to provide a unique combination of precision, clarity and effortless power. The RF-82 has a dual 8-inch high output woofers with large motor structures for a solid bass foundation and greater control, output and power handling. These Cerametallic woofers with inverted copper dust caps exhibit a very high stiffness-to-mass ratio and superb damping characteristics. The RF-82’s cabinet offers improved internal cross-bracing to minimize panel vibrations that can color sound and twin rear-firing ports to eliminate turbulence noise. Increased baffle ribbing in the lower panel and around the horn mouth dramatically improve acoustics across the sonic range. For signal purity and perfect driver integration, the crossover on the RF-82 features the finest components and Klipsch custom internal wiring. The Klipsch RF-82 has a response bandwidth of up to 33Hz-23000Hz, approximately 3dB and peak power handling of 150W RMS, nominal power of 600W RMS. It also comes with 98dB @ 2.83V / 1m sensitivity, 8 ohms compatible nominal impedance and high frequency crossover of 2000Hz. Apart from that, the RF-82 has an amplification type of 2-way passive and it uses the wired connectivity technology. The RF-82 measures at 24.1cm in width, 41.3cm in depth and 110.7cm in height (with stand) and it weights in at 30kg.

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Reviews of Klipsch RF-82

  1. Reviewer: What Hi-Fi?
    10 May 2009
    Overall 6
    6.0
     

    A big, boisterous speaker that needs to show a bit more restraint to compete with the class-leaders Read more

  1. A pair of serious speakers

    Reviewer: ABT Electronics
    25 April 2007
    Overall 10
    10
     

    I bought these speakers and hooked them up to my Onkyo receiver. The RF-82's are one of the best speakers I have ever heard in this price range. You have to buy a good receiver though if you go for these speakers. The bass is very powerfull and some would probably feel they don't even need a sub. These speakers can shake our entire three flat in the city if need be. Read more

  2. The Best speakers in their category

    Reviewer: PriceGrabber
    25 August 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    I moved from satellites to these floor standing loud speakers but let me tell you I had five sat. and they don't even compare to just two of these. I can actually feel the bass hitting me when I turn it up. Everyone recommended these for HT but I find them very pleasing for music too. Alot of people say that the horns are bright but I didn't find the, bright at all. I love the detail these speakers provide from the pin drop the explosion nothing is left out. At first I... Read more

  3. RF-82

    Reviewer: MS, J&R
    6 May 2010
    Overall 10
    10
     

    Ive upgraded my speakers from sony to klipsch. these speakers are great sounding speakers. Ive hooked this into TX-SR706 Onkyo receiver (100 watts per channel). Im impressed by the sound. These speakes have a nice finish. Overall very good speakers, when i bought these i also bought a pair of RS-52 surrounds and RW12D subwoofer,works very well with the combination. Cons : Speakers are heavy, rather than that these speakers are great. After using these speakers, made me a... Read more

  4. Reviewer: joseph_pino, What Hi-Fi?
    25 July 2010

    I bought these floorstanding speakers two months ago, and I have been using them since. After reading this review, I tested the speakers with the exact same song that was used for the test in this review (Not Fair by Lily Allen) and I must disagree with it saying that there is hardness in the vocals. Lily's voice is all but hard in my hi-fi system, and I do have a cheap 1979 integrated amplifier. I can only partially agree with the judgement over the very low-end (even... Read more

  5. RF-82 for 2.0

    Reviewer: Amazon
    3 weeks ago
    Overall 10
    10
     

    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,... Read more

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