Need help setting up Yamaha YST Sw1500.

[Yamaheart]

Hi all, just got this YST1500 sub, excited. I wanna ask what is the best way of hooking this sub to my RX-v3800. This is what i did so far, the Sub pre-out from my Rx-v3800 to the LFE(left) on the sub. Do i need the Y-adpater so i can hook it to to both LFE(left and right). What are the best setting to set up on the Reciever? And also the sub placement. Thank you all

 

[tcarcio]

You have it hooked up correctly so that is fine. I would start with setting the crossover on the reciever to 80hz and if the sub has a crossover control then disable it either by turning it off if it allows that or set it to the highest value. Most go from 40hz to 200hz so set it to the highest number. I would set your gain or volume control on the sub to 10-11 oclock and the sub gain in the recievers menu to 0db. In the recievers menu set all speakers to small and then play something with lots of bass to see how it sounds. You will most likely need to do some tweaking and adjusting to your likeing but once you get it to where it sounds good to you then if you have a spl meter you can adjust the levels of all to 75db and that's about it. If you don't have a meter and want to get one Radio Shack has the for a reasonable price but get the anolog one not the digital as they are better. (IMO)As far as placement put the sub in your listening position and then crawl, yes crawl, around the room and find the spot that sounds best for bass. once you find that spot put the sub there.

 

[Yamaheart]

Thanks man.

damn, I love this sub already. The kool thing about this sub or any sub I guess is that i can hear or feel the bass/rumbling at 50 feet away. Yes literally 50 feet across away from the corner of the sub way across to the corner of the dining area. So people might suggest I put the sub at the dining area since it sounds best there? Thank you a bunch man.

 

[tcarcio]

Your welcome, Enjoy......

 

[Yamaheart]

You have it hooked up correctly so that is fine. I would start with setting the crossover on the reciever to 80hz and if the sub has a crossover control then disable it either by turning it off if it allows that or set it to the highest value. Most go from 40hz to 200hz so set it to the highest number. I would set your gain or volume control on the sub to 10-11 oclock and the sub gain in the recievers menu to 0db. In the recievers menu set all speakers to small and then play something with lots of bass to see how it sounds. You will most likely need to do some tweaking and adjusting to your likeing but once you get it to where it sounds good to you then if you have a spl meter you can adjust the levels of all to 75db and that's about it. If you don't have a meter and want to get one Radio Shack has the for a reasonable price but get the anolog one not the digital as they are better. (IMO)As far as placement put the sub in your listening position and then crawl, yes crawl, around the room and find the spot that sounds best for bass. once you find that spot put the sub there.

Tcarcio, u stated that I should set the crossover for the sub from the receiver at 80hz. What about 40Hz, 60HZ and 100hz. The dial for high cut from my subwoofer is set to 40hz right now. What are the differences if I set the high cut dial to MAX? Thanks man

 

[Adam]

The dial for high cut from my subwoofer is set to 40hz right now. What are the differences if I set the high cut dial to MAX? Thanks man

The reason to set that to the maximum value is that you don't want the subwoofer's crossover to cut out any of the frequencies that are being sent to it by the receiver because the receiver is already handling the bass management. If you set that dial to 40Hz (so the sub only plays frequencies below 40Hz), but you set the crossover on the receiver to 80Hz (so that the other speakers only play frequencies above 80Hz), then you will be missing the frequencies between 40Hz and 80Hz.

 

[tcarcio]

Adam is exactly right, Like I said in my first post you need to put the crossover on the sub to max, which basically disables it, and let the reciever take care of it.

 

[Yamaheart]

Thanks Adam and Tcarcio, I finally get it. The dial is back to MAX, and the receiver is set at 80Hz.