LFE or Speaker Wire

[griffinconst]

Is one better than the other? If I hook up my sub through the high-level speakerwire connection, do I lose any signal or sound? Is there part of movies that come through the LFE only?
I read in the Mapleshade Catalog that you get the best sub sound from the speakerwire connection and you should connect the mains to the receiver not the sub.
If you can answer any of my questions and or have an opinion about the Mapleshade comment, please help a brother out.

 

[highfigh]

Is one better than the other? If I hook up my sub through the high-level speakerwire connection, do I lose any signal or sound? Is there part of movies that come through the LFE only?
I read in the Mapleshade Catalog that you get the best sub sound from the speakerwire connection and you should connect the mains to the receiver not the sub.
If you can answer any of my questions and or have an opinion about the Mapleshade comment, please help a brother out.

If the receiver has high pass crossovers, connect it to the main speakers directly. The sub out should give you all of the low frequency info you need if they're encoded using 5.1.

 

[Alex2507]

^^^ +1

I had the same question long ago and my take away message was to go with Sub Out/LFE/RCA cable to the sub. Many here can explain why way better but Ill take a stab at it. In order for your sub to apply a cross over to a speaker level signal it converts it to line level, crosses it and then amplifies it. There are fewer wires running to the sub with RCA. The RCA is also shielded to prevent interference ... and that's the way MDS does it.

Long ago I went to Maple Shade's site and I seem to remember them selling cable elevators and esoteric wire so they can pretty much bite me. I could be wrong. Their recordings are suppose to be something though.

 

[TLS Guy]

Is one better than the other? If I hook up my sub through the high-level speakerwire connection, do I lose any signal or sound? Is there part of movies that come through the LFE only?
I read in the Mapleshade Catalog that you get the best sub sound from the speakerwire connection and you should connect the mains to the receiver not the sub.
If you can answer any of my questions and or have an opinion about the Mapleshade comment, please help a brother out.

They are wrong! If you connect via speaker, then you have to set to no sub on the receiver. The LFE will be sent to the mains, but it will be attenuated.

The next problem is that the LFE signal is a line out which is cleaner and much better for driving the high gain stages of the sub amp.

Those guys a Mapleshade are wrong on all counts.

 

[mtrycrafts]

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Those guys a Mapleshade are wrong on all counts.

They are also into voodoo cables too

 

[highfigh]

They are also into voodoo cables too

I wouldn't take them seriously, then. It would be different if they liked the Hocus Pocus cables.

I want my system to go from DC to light.

 

[Haaspac]

get PEAR cables.

Edit: only joking.

 

[mtrycrafts]

...I want my system to go from DC to light.

Well, you get to use the light in an optical cable
and DC in the power supply. Does that qualify?

 

[mtrycrafts]

get PEAR cables.

Edit: only joking.

Hey, their color might blend well in some rooms
Someone almost made it to the $1mill challenge by Randi.

 

[Haaspac]

Hey, their color might blend well in some rooms
Someone almost made it to the $1mill challenge by Randi.

I heard randi offered the challenge and the guy from pear cables basically said "I know my cables are better, I don't need to do your challenge" which means he knows his cables are not worth more than monoprice cables. Which is where I buy my cables.

 

[lsiberian]

Is one better than the other? If I hook up my sub through the high-level speakerwire connection, do I lose any signal or sound? Is there part of movies that come through the LFE only?
I read in the Mapleshade Catalog that you get the best sub sound from the speakerwire connection and you should connect the mains to the receiver not the sub.
If you can answer any of my questions and or have an opinion about the Mapleshade comment, please help a brother out.

Use the LFE connection!!