My old warhorse Velodyne VA-810 (currently 15 years old) seemingly cannot handle the load these days. Bass it used to handle with dignity and grace now sounds muddles or like paper flapping when there is any kind of volume. (still handles the lower volumes OK). Since the thing is a tank, I cant look around at the hardware too easily - and since there *is* a relatively new receiver in the game, I figured lets start by looking at wiring and crossovers and such.
The VA-810 has line in and line out jacks, as well as speaker wire in and out, and a 1-10 "Subwoofer level" dial. The Hi Pass Crossover is FIXED at 85Hz.
Its hooked up to the Pioneer VSX-1015TX receiver via the receiver's dedicated subwoofer pre-out, one cable to the sub's left channel line in.
In the pioneer, I can set the sub to crossover at 50, 80, 100, 150, or 200, but frankly I can't hear a difference between the highest and lowest setting when testing.
The subs manual states that some receivers have a Sub Pre-out jack that is "already crossed over" and "since the subwoofer has a built in crossover, connect the Velodyne to the front or main channel outputs of your receiver" as "combining the crossovers will result in low gain and increased noise"
Now, I do have a center Pre-out and front L/R pre-outs available on the Pio - but is this the appropriate solution?(yeah, i know the solution is to start plugging and unplugging, but like many setups, its wired to within an inch of its life and undoing and re-doing that is no fun).
Am I missing something else obvious at work here?
