Reference R-26FA Floorstanding Speaker, Black, Pair

Many years ago, I had large Infinity front speakers, but they eventually failed and since then my replacement speakers have always been small due to the small places I lived in. I eventually moved into a small house, but with a big open living room. For reasons that escape me, I never upgraded my speakers. The system sounded fine, but after my front speakers blew, I replaced them with Klipsch R-41M bookshelf speakers. Quite an improvement, and made me a Klipsch fan. Then my 20-year-old HK receiver died and I replaced it with a Yamaha 7850. That brought the sound quality that much higher. (The HK was great but 20 years of technology really makes a difference.) With those two upgrades, it made me think: I have the room now so why not get full size speakers up front? I can use the 41Ms to replace the aging rear speakers and get floor standing up front. Also, this new receiver was Dolby ATMOS compatible, and wanted to utilize it as I love the home theater experience. I searched for Klipsch (I like to match speaker brands for esthetic and sound quality reasons) floor standing speakers and quickly found these Klipsch R-26FA on Amazon. I was unaware you could get these with built in ATMOS so that was a nice surprise. The R-26FA are the same as the R-26Fs but with the addition of the ATMOS top mounted speakers, also called Front Presence. They are angled so to bounce sound off the ceiling and provide ambient sound all over the listening area. (ATMOS= Atmosphere) You can also buy the ATMOS speakers separately, if you wish to add them to an existing system. The 2 speakers are about 100 lbs. so getting them on Prime was nice as I am sure shipping would be pricey. Set up is easy for one person, but with two it would be easier due to the weight. There are 3 binding post pairs for hook up. 1 for the ATMOS speaker and 2 more for the standard front firing speakers (One tweeter and two woofers). The lower 2 are bridged so you can hook them up to the receiver the same as a ‘normal’ front speaker. The two binding posts are there so you can bi-amp them (Power with 2 amps) if desired. You can also bi-wire them (Wire both post sets to the same terminals on the receiver), but I don’t see much use in that. I am currently using the included bridge and it sounds fine to me. Some have said to remove the bridge and use wires to bridge them, but I have yet to test that. Speaker covers are included and give the speaker a nice stealthy look. If you leave them off, the gold woofers and tweeter with signature Klipsch horn look great. You can decide which look is better. Once hooked up, I had to do some balancing to get the sound the way I wanted it, but in the end it sounds amazing. Klipsch smartly put the tweeters on top so they are ear level when sitting down. The woofers provide plenty of bass, but my subwoofer handles that nicely with or without help. The ATMOS speakers work as well, but it is not something that you will always notice. As I have a vaulted ceiling, I bumped the ATMOS sound up a bit to increase the affect. They produce sound most of the time, mainly channeling echo and background noise. Some games and movies are specifically made for ATMOS and do sound amazing. Its with those sources that you will hear sounds go directly to the top speakers, like a helicopter flying ‘over’ your living room. I use my XBOX as my main source and it works fine, but I did have to install a Dolby app to utilize ATMOS. Over all I am VERY happy with the new speakers and its so nice to have full sound in my living room again. I use my system a lot more now, and not just for movies. I love listening to music while I clean or study. Though there is a newer version of this speaker available from Klipsch, the R-26FAs were exactly what I needed and significantly lower in price than the current model. I highly recommend these for purchase.

These things are impressive! So, I'm not an audiophile, so maybe I'm just easily impressed. I'm not going through the trouble of ceiling speakers for Atmos, as the home I'm in is nooot my forever home, but the price was great and wanted to see how the Atmos stuff works. Paired with a Denon AVR S-760H. I set aside money from my tax return to upgrade from a 10+ year old Panasonic HTIB. Now I know the dimensions and weight are very well detailed in the speaker description, but when the were delivered, I felt like they were massive (in a great way). The old HTIB has plasticy, thin, light, "towers". And I've seen similar sized speakers by Klipsch at big box electronic stores. I dunno, seeing them in my house though, I just kept telling my son, "These are absolute UNITS!" LOL. Sturdy. Solid. Despite the men who wear brown who handled the delivery and the boxes a bit dinged, they were in perfect shape. Klipsch packaged them securely. They sound great. I thought the Monoprice 5.1.2 speaker system I initially bought, was a huge improvement over the old Pannys. These Klipsches were levels above that. Queued up some Rush to play (RIP Neil Peart) and heard things I never heard before. Found some Atmos encoded nature stuff on Netflix. While the built in Atmos top firing speakers will be poo-pooed by die hards, they make a difference. Sitting with son and daughter on the couch, a bird very clearly flew noticably over our heads from front left speaker to right rear. We looked at each other, "Did you hear that? It was above us." Very cool, very cool. Very nice, very nice. (Bonus points if ya get the Letterkenny reference). Yes, these are a generation behind the current Klipsch Atmos enabled offerings, but yeah, I didn't wanna spend that money, especially when I doubt I'd notice a difference. Adorama seems to be the only ones left with these in stock. I'd say they are a great deal. I suspect when they are gone, they'll be gone for good. Easy five stars for me for quality of build, quality of sound, and price. I'm glad my AVR doesn't support 5.1.4, or I'd go totally obnoxious and buy a set for the rears. For me, this is a can't miss buy if you are upgrading to a "real" audio system for the first time and don't wanna spend tons of money. Hope this review helps with your new speaker purchase decision making. Take care. :)

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Awesome sound and value e/w Atoms Height- 2 in 1 tower great for system built around them, understand advantages of single tower and flexible design ability but works in my man cave bachelor theatre Sound is 80 to 22khz from towers & equipped Atmos and separate Atmos SRs and centre, <20hz up from sub. Evaluate personal with following equipment: 75” Amazon mini LED Fire TV, RX-V6A, 2x R-26FA, 2x R-40SA, R-50C & R-101SW

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Las bocinas son super buenas, se escuchan genial, sin embargo no venían tan bien protegidas, por lo cual llego una dañada de una esquina. La importación de estas bocinas tardó mucho ya que el vendedor tardaba mucho en contestarme los mensajes para ponernos de acuerdo con este tema

Product is awesome and undamaged, BUT, I would NOT recommend wrapping both towers together, I know it saves on shipping but, by time I got them, both boxes had severe damage, luckily ok styro packing in the box. Plus makes it hard to handle as a shipper I assume, looks like a forklift fork lol. Great time frame ship out. Gj all. Other than shipping package would have been awake 5 star.