Booooom!

[Sniperslayer]

hahahh THANK GOD THIS THING WORKS!!! finally the box is done, everything wired up, and hooked up to my old receiver which is hooked to my computer..

now..before i post pics of the final product i need to move it into it's final resting spot

but..two last questions for you guys, currently I have the sub hooked to "Sub Woofer Preout" on my older Pioneer reciever just to test it out/listen

there is another output called just "subwoofer" but it gives me nothing when I try to run it from there as it's in the "Surround" section of inputs and i have nothing else connected there, nor am i running a "surround" output for the other speakers [just the pioneer HT speakers hooked to my comp]

now..when i play music from my computer through the sub, it's outputing the actuall voice from the songs etc. as well, not just bass, so i'm asuming the "preout" was made for the sub which came with it, and either the sub has a crossover built in, or the sub is just built as to only put out bass

with all this said, until i get my Yamaha hooked up, is it ok to run the sub at this output? when it's making the sounds of the words/voice in the song as well as the bass? will it damage it?

2nd question) The Subwoofer cable which came with the sub has the 1 input for the receiver, and 2 for the amp, on the amp it has the "in" and "out" yet on the cables themselves it does not say which is which, or any indication, is this automatic regardless of which way you hook them into the plate amp?

 

[MDS]

- You want to use the output labeled 'sub pre-out' on the receiver. This is a line-level signal *before* amplification (the sub will amplify it). Ideally you should use the input on the sub marked 'lfe' as that input will bypass the sub's internal xover (you'll set the xover in the receiver's setup menus).

- If you were to use the inputs on the sub that just say 'line-level' then the sub's internal xover is active and you need to set the low pass knob to the xover you want (80 Hz is good).

- On a sound card, usually, there are three jacks and one carries front left and right, one carries the surrounds, and one the center and subwoofer. If you used a cable with a stereo mini plug on one end and 2 RCA plugs on the other from the sound card to the sub, the sub is getting the center and subwoofer channels and that is why you hear the voice. If you set an appropriate xover that is well below the human voice range, like 80 Hz, it should minimize or even eliminate that issue.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

An affordable loudspeaker management system like the Behringer DCX2496 has assorted use of crossover filters to chose from (Butterworth Bessel and Linkwitz-Riley) from -6db -12db -18db -24db and -48db by using the simple knob control to slice off the specific point you wish.

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