Hey guys so my tower speakers are handling the bass for all my speakers, the center and the surround speakers. This is a living room setup so I had no space to place a subwoofer so I opted to get a large tower speaker that produces full range sound for stereo (below 20 HZ). These are very expensive speakers that I have measured full range output. Now, on my denon receiver since I am not using subwoofers I set all my speakers small (the center and surround) except for my tower speakers which I set to large. However, on the crossover display should I set my tower to 80 Hz even though my speaker is still technically a subwoofer as well or should I set the crossover to 250 Hz the max crossover setting? I have the LFE + Main set to 120 Hz which is correct but need some suggestion if I set my large tower speakers to 80 Hz if it is ok or not? My home theater setup everything is set small and I have subwoofers engaged but my living room setup I could not put a subwoofer. Thanks!
Is the SUB set to “None”?
If you are not using the Sub output on the AVR, I don’t see the point of using LFE+MAIN.
I didn’t even think you could set LFE+Main if the subwoofer is set to “None”.
But if subs are set to none and Mains are set to Large, all the bass should go to the Mains.
There is a 2nd method if you don’t like the 1st method, which is recommended by most people.
The 2nd method might only be used by about 0.0001% of people (joke on SINAD/THD+N
).
Basically you remove the bi-amp Jumpers from the towers, use an external Amp or Subwoofer Amp, and turn your Woofers into an “active subwoofer“ by feeding the AVR’s Sub Output to the external amp or sub amp and then feeding the amp to the Bass Speaker terminals.
At one point I was going to get the Focus SE (since I could get dealer demo discount) and do this method.
Presently, I don’t need to do this because my speakers are modular towers so the bottom cabinet is an actual subwoofer. But if I had something like the RBH 8300 tower, Focus SE, Klipsch RF7III, Polk L800, or other bi-amp towers with dual 10-12” woofers or at least three 8” Woofers, I would do the 2nd method because I am that 0.0001%.