Large or small

[bruin62]

my two front speakers have small powered subs in them so I talked with the speaker company an they said to set my two front speakers to large that way I didn't have to run cables to my sub out. But isn't this just robbing from my 17 inch sub? Also running the auto setup should I change the two fronts an centre channel to 80hz?

 

[rojo]

The Soundstage 800P published frequency response is 36-20,000Hz +/- ndB, where n is an unsigned 8-bit integer. Set them to small and try the crossover at 60Hz. Try it at 80Hz. See which sounds better to you.

 

[Don G.]

I have never seen main speakers that manage the bottom octave as well as a good sub. Follow rojo's advice and try it for yourself. I assume you still have the sub connected anyway for the LFE channel.

 

[lovinthehd]

What 17 inch sub?

 

[bruin62]

Thanks I will give that a try if I set the front mains at 60Hz do I leave the rest of the speakers at 80Hz? An what should my sub cross over at? Sorry for being a pain but this gets a little confusing lol. Oh an I meant to say 15 inch sub

 

[lovinthehd]

If your mains are set to crossover at 60hz that is the crossover between those speakers and the sub, same for other speakers set at 80hz, that's where they will crossover with the sub. Are you asking about the low pass filter/crossover setting on the sub itself? Or perhaps the LPF of LFE setting on some receivers?

 

[bruin62]

I was looking online an what I read was if your receiver can set your cross over for your sub set it through there. They said simply turn the phase knob on the sub to 0 an set the cross over as high as it goes than select what you want in the receiver does this sound right?

 

[lovinthehd]

I was looking online an what I read was if your receiver can set your cross over for your sub set it through there. They said simply turn the phase knob on the sub to 0 an set the cross over as high as it goes than select what you want in the receiver does this sound right?

That dial is normally not really the "crossover" as it's labeled, it's rather only a low pass filter. Some subs have a specific LFE input that bypasses that low pass filter, sometimes you need to dial it to max value to get it out of the way. There may even be circumstances where you want to combine those two filters (the one the avr is providing, and combine it with the one in the sub), but probably not too likely.