(NEW) Klipsch R-610F Floor Standing Speaker

I bought these single 6.5-inch towers full price and a Klipsch 10" Black Label sub on sale for $136. Less than $500 in all three to my door. They are replacing YAMAHA NS-F210BL pair and a Polk 10" sub. It's a noticeable improvement. Horns jump out at you. Piano has regained that ringing sound that the strings make as they decay. More rich mid- bass and midrange. More powerful overall. The thin Yamahas were pretty good with sub, but this new Klipsch combo is the entry level monster. Cleaner sound. Not soft or muddled, but more texture in everything, detailed. A step up. Takes more power from the receiver though because they are 8-ohm vs 6 or 4, but their 94db efficiency helps to make up for the amp power into 8 ohms. I am only running them on a 45W Onkyo. 80W into 8 ohms or more would be better. Only thing that I will complain about and hope Klipsch gets wind of are the supplied screws with thin shafts like drywall screws (Need pan head wood screws!). The supplied screws go in very tight and high pressure MDF doesn't give much. They certainly aren't stripping out, but the screw heads will snap right off on you trying to get them all the way in. Two snapped off and the foot plates are not tight. I can't get them out because can't grip what's left sticking out. Didn't have a drill to make new hole in foot or cabinet so I glued that end, rather than sending both speakers back. Why US manufacturers never actually thoroughly test hardware and things the customer will perform has always angered me having been an engineer for several US OEMs in the past and watching products I had made changes to leave the building destined to customers without fully testing some features of new production models and not the prototypes, etc. Just because a prototype was completely tested as it took its final form doesn't mean that the production model is guaranteed to be exactly the same. Klipsch needs to make this minor change and supply thicker shaft screws. The one rear hole on every speaker is also drilled too shallow, and the screw bottoms out and will snap off before it's tight.