Crossover settings?

[Lilmo6868]

I would be highly interested in to hearing everyone's crossover settings opinions. I have seven bookshelves with everything set on small and I'm crossing them over at 60 hertz right now and I have my two subs crossed at 80 Hertz but I seem to be lacking in the 70 area for some reason.
All input and opinions welcome. Thanks in advance

 

[Mark of Cenla]

It depends on how low your bookshelf speakers go. Most start with the sub crossover at 80hz in the receiver and turn the sub crossover all the way up. Peace and goodwill.

 

[Lilmo6868]

All of the smalls are older v2 paradigms.

 

[Lilmo6868]

In the settings in the AVR , should everything be crossed at 80 or 60 on the surrounds and the subs or should there be some overlap

 

[j_garcia]

Generally you want the x-over roughly one octave above what the speaker can realistically extend to. The Atoms didn't go that low so you'd need 80Hz for sure with them. For Titans or Mini Monitors you might get away with 60, but I ran them with 80Hz. You don't overlap the sub, the receiver does that for you.

A dip centered around a particular frequency is often the room not the speakers.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

I would be highly interested in to hearing everyone's crossover settings opinions. I have seven bookshelves with everything set on small and I'm crossing them over at 60 hertz right now and I have my two subs crossed at 80 Hertz but I seem to be lacking in the 70 area for some reason.
All input and opinions welcome. Thanks in advance

Could be room or phase or even distance settings for the subs. I would try phase first. Don't use the XO on the sub. Only use the avr.

 

[ski2xblack]

I would be highly interested in to hearing everyone's crossover settings opinions. I have seven bookshelves with everything set on small and I'm crossing them over at 60 hertz right now and I have my two subs crossed at 80 Hertz but I seem to be lacking in the 70 area for some reason.
All input and opinions welcome. Thanks in advance

Try the higher 80 hz hpf for the speakers, avoid overlap with the subs, and then double check levels and phase. You could be experiencing some cancellation with the overlap.

Room acoustics at those frequencies are certainly having an influence as well. The simplest (if not cheapest) way to address uneven room response is to add another sub.

FWIW, my own rigs are all over the map. The only ones that have much overlap involve larger mains with lower hpf settings, with the sub lpf at a shallower slope, thus more overlap. I wouldn't press smaller speakers into such conditions, as it's a recipe for increased IM distortion.

 

[Bucknekked]

A dip centered around a particular frequency is often the room not the speakers.

That has been my limited experience with room set up as well: I had a dip/hump centered around 70hz. No matter what I did I could not move it or change it. It's the room. I changed speakers completely along with location within the room to fix that particular problem.