main sub and front tower subs

[landonspop]

I have a powered sub and front towers (fr &fl) with powered subs. Since I told my amp I have a sub, I assume it is cutting bass from rest of speakers. Should I split my sub out to the main sub and the inputs on my towers?

RC

 

[EJ1]

I have a powered sub and front towers (fr &fl) with powered subs. Since I told my amp I have a sub, I assume it is cutting bass from rest of speakers. Should I split my sub out to the main sub and the inputs on my towers?

RC

Good questions. I'm curious as well. So are you using the receiver's crossover? If so, what is it set at?

 

[landonspop]

I think I use the amps crossover when I tell it I have a sub, but I could be wrong. I know it asks me what my other speakers are. ( big or small I think) My powered amps on my front towers have speaker terminal inputs and a rca input. The speaker terminals would split off of the regular speaker inputs before I had sub. But now I thought I could split sub output from amp to these for extra sub only signals from amp. As long as there would be no harmful outcomes. (impedience).

 

[Davemcc]

Wouldn't it be easier to run one speaker wire to each speaker and set the receiver to LFE+Main? In this case, the main speakers get a full range signal and the sub still gets the LFE signal.

 

[landonspop]

Wouldn't it be easier to run one speaker wire to each speaker and set the receiver to LFE+Main? In this case, the main speakers get a full range signal and the sub still gets the LFE signal.

Fronts have 2 inputs. One wire feeds amp powered speakers in towers. The amped subs in the tower speakers require their own wires. These can come off of regular speaker terminals or by using rca wires.

 

[Davemcc]

So there's no way to turn off the speaker's internal amp for the sub and use a jumper between the speaker's binding posts?

Then I suppose you could set the fronts to LFE+Main and set the surround rear channels on the receiver to bi-amp. Then the main speaker terminal could go to the regular speaker posts and the surround rear channels that are sending a bi-amped signal could go to the built-in sub's speaker level inputs. From your sig, it looks like you have a 5 channel system, so you should be able to configure it that way.

The only other way I can think of would be to divide the LFE RCA cable three ways.

I'm just throwing out suggestion here because it's pretty hard to find any info on these speakers to see exactly how they're set up. But I'm sure you already know that.

 

[landonspop]

So there's no way to turn off the speaker's internal amp for the sub and use a jumper between the speaker's binding posts?

Then I suppose you could set the fronts to LFE+Main and set the surround rear channels on the receiver to bi-amp. Then the main speaker terminal could go to the regular speaker posts and the surround rear channels that are sending a bi-amped signal could go to the built-in sub's speaker level inputs. From your sig, it looks like you have a 5 channel system, so you should be able to configure it that way.

The only other way I can think of would be to divide the LFE RCA cable three ways.

I'm just throwing out suggestion here because it's pretty hard to find any info on these speakers to see exactly how they're set up. But I'm sure you already know that.

The amp, on towers, do have a switch. It can power on auto w/ sound signal or stay off. They are set to come on with sound. They can bridge w/ main speaker terminals. This way, the whole speaker, w/ amped wolfer, work as one speaker.

My question simply put was this. Would these pwd subs, in my front towers, sound better playing lfe channel to give me the equivilance of 3 subs. Or would my surround system have better sound having these as left and right full range speaker including sub-bass freqencies.

I think I have decided to keep them as just left and right speakers because I forgot that I listen to music in stereo and I don't want to lose the base in this mode.

 

[jamie2112]

It looks as though you have answered your own question.
I think you should run the towers full range and use your sub for Sub bass..

 

[jamie2112]

Who makes Eosone?

 

[landonspop]

Eosone

Who makes Eosone?

It was a joint venture between Polk and Genesis.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4360/is_199506/ai_n15230000

thanks for reply