Speaker/Receiver Setup

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04rex

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Hello, I have a question. When you setup your speakers with your receiver, how or when do you know to select the speaker as large or small? Does it go by bookshelf/tower, or woofer size?? How would you know when to select the center channel as a large or small speaker as well?

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AVRat

AVRat

Audioholic Ninja
Very few speakers are truly capable of producing the full range, 20-20KHz. If there is a stand-alone sub involved, then all speakers should be set to small with crossovers set in accordance with the speakers’ capability. The deciding factor is the speaker’s actual low end frequency response, not woofer size. Two speakers may use a 10” woofer, but be designed with different characteristics, for example -3db of 40 Hz vs. 80 Hz.
 
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04rex

Audioholic Intern
Ok, so lets say i have a Paradigm Studio Sub12 and my fronts are the Paradigm Studio 60's and the center is the Studio 590. What should i set the sub to??

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Pyrrho

Pyrrho

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Ok, so lets say i have a Paradigm Studio Sub12 and my fronts are the Paradigm Studio 60's and the center is the Studio 590. What should i set the sub to??

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If you have to set all channels to the same frequency cuttoff, and if you do not have any surround speakers (if you do, you should tell us what they are), you should set it between 60-80 Hz. Although your main speakers are at -2dB @ 45Hz:

http://www.paradigm.com/products/paradigm-reference/floorstanding/studio-series/studio-60

Your center speaker is at -2dB @ 55Hz:

http://www.paradigm.com/products/paradigm-reference/center/studio-series/studio-cc-590

You should set the frequency above 55Hz, and probably 80Hz would be best for it, so that it is not going to strain when playing fairly loud.

Your speakers should all be set to small, and if you can select different crossover frequencies for the front center than for the other front speakers, you may set the crossover lower for the main right and left channels than for the center, but there is no need for that.

Basically, the ONLY time you don't want to set all of your speakers to small is if they can go as deep as your subwoofer. Since that is almost never the case, it is almost never a good idea to set one's speakers to large.

You see, the idea is that you want all of the frequencies to be played, no matter what channel they are in, and so if you don't redirect the deep bass from the various channels to the subwoofer, you do not hear the deep bass from those channels that is below what your non-subwoofer speakers can do.

In other words, if you set everything to large, the center bass is going to be lacking below 55Hz, and the main channel bass will be lacking below 45Hz. Not only that, but when playing loudly, the bass drivers in those speakers will distort more, because although they are not giving you much output below those frequencies, they are still being asked to do it, and so you get extra distortion that you could avoid by redirecting the deep bass to the subwoofer that can handle those frequencies.
 
chesbak

chesbak

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If you have to set all channels to the same frequency cuttoff, and if you do not have any surround speakers (if you do, you should tell us what they are), you should set it between 60-80 Hz. Although your main speakers are at -2dB @ 45Hz:

http://www.paradigm.com/products/paradigm-reference/floorstanding/studio-series/studio-60

Your center speaker is at -2dB @ 55Hz:

http://www.paradigm.com/products/paradigm-reference/center/studio-series/studio-cc-590

You should set the frequency above 55Hz, and probably 80Hz would be best for it, so that it is not going to strain when playing fairly loud.

Your speakers should all be set to small, and if you can select different crossover frequencies for the front center than for the other front speakers, you may set the crossover lower for the main right and left channels than for the center, but there is no need for that.

Basically, the ONLY time you don't want to set all of your speakers to small is if they can go as deep as your subwoofer. Since that is almost never the case, it is almost never a good idea to set one's speakers to large.

You see, the idea is that you want all of the frequencies to be played, no matter what channel they are in, and so if you don't redirect the deep bass from the various channels to the subwoofer, you do not hear the deep bass from those channels that is below what your non-subwoofer speakers can do.

In other words, if you set everything to large, the center bass is going to be lacking below 55Hz, and the main channel bass will be lacking below 45Hz. Not only that, but when playing loudly, the bass drivers in those speakers will distort more, because although they are not giving you much output below those frequencies, they are still being asked to do it, and so you get extra distortion that you could avoid by redirecting the deep bass to the subwoofer that can handle those frequencies.
Now this is what I call complete information... Must of taken you a while to type all of this... Good Job Pyrrho...
 
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it depends on the brand of the speakers you bought or you're planning to buy.i am pretty sure that the brand itself will have something to offer to your ideal model set up. i read here in hedmag(dot)com providing reviews on quality speakers.
 
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