New Speakers on Order! Also sold my Center for a Grand.

[Trebdp83]

Those are nice speakers with a great looking veneer and that radio as center channel speaker stand is very cool.

As for the Onkyo settings, you can switch Volume display from Absolute to Relative using the onscreen Setup.

Do not confuse “Mono” Sound Mode with “Mono Music” Sound Mode. With “Mono Music,” all speakers will output the same sound in Mono at once.

When playing actual Mono signals, the Onkyo RZ50 allows for output to the Center Channel Speaker or the Front Speakers when using the “Mono” Sound Mode. Regardless of the output speakers, frequencies below the crossover setting of any speakers not set to Full Band will be sent to a connected subwoofer in “Mono” Sound Mode.

Using Direct mode, two channel signals will be output from the Front Speakers with no signal sent to a connected subwoofer and any and all room correction will be disabled. Onkyos do not feature LFE+Main subwoofer settings to get a signal to a subwoofer when using Direct mode.

Playing music in Direct mode at high volume can potentially damage the amps and/or speakers. Many damage their equipment chasing a bass dragon that cannot be caught when outputting sound from just the Front speakers.

In this particular setup, I wouldn't cross the Front and Center Speakers below 80Hz and I’d play with 100Hz to120Hz. Heights I’d do at 150Hz. Always make a capable subwoofer or subwoofers do the heavy lifting and take the literal heat off of the receiver and speakers.

Never use the Double Bass feature in Onkyo receivers when running Front Speakers Full Band to get a signal to the subwoofer. Those who want to compliment speakers set to Large/Full Band should get a Denon/Marantz unit and use LFE+Main.

 

[Squishman]

Those are nice speakers with a great looking veneer and that radio as center channel speaker stand is very cool.

As for the Onkyo settings, you can switch Volume display from Absolute to Relative using the onscreen Setup.

Do not confuse “Mono” Sound Mode with “Mono Music” Sound Mode. With “Mono Music,” all speakers will output the same sound in Mono at once.

When playing actual Mono signals, the Onkyo RZ50 allows for output to the Center Channel Speaker or the Front Speakers when using the “Mono” Sound Mode. Regardless of the output speakers, frequencies below the crossover setting of any speakers not set to Full Band will be sent to a connected subwoofer in “Mono” Sound Mode.

Using Direct mode, two channel signals will be output from the Front Speakers with no signal sent to a connected subwoofer and any and all room correction will be disabled. Onkyos do not feature LFE+Main subwoofer settings to get a signal to a subwoofer when using Direct mode.

Playing music in Direct mode at high volume can potentially damage the amps and/or speakers. Many damage their equipment chasing a bass dragon that cannot be caught when outputting sound from just the Front speakers.

In this particular setup, I wouldn't cross the Front and Center Speakers below 80Hz and I’d play with 100Hz to120Hz. Heights I’d do at 150Hz. Always make a capable subwoofer or subwoofers do the heavy lifting and take the literal heat off of the receiver and speakers.

Never use the Double Bass feature in Onkyo receivers when running Front Speakers Full Band to get a signal to the subwoofer. Those who want to compliment speakers set to Large/Full Band should get a Denon/Marantz unit and use LFE+Main.

All good info. I will set those frequencies now. Last night when I was playing mono music from my turntable, I selected "mono" from the movie DSP's so it was only output to the center and sub, but I wasn't getting anything from the sub at the time.

 

[Squishman]

I see now why I got nothing from my sub last night. Center was at 40 hz. I suppose I did that since my previous center speaker had a 15" woofer.

 

[Squishman]

In this particular setup, I wouldn't cross the Front and Center Speakers below 80Hz and I’d play with 100Hz to120Hz. Heights I’d do at 150Hz. Always make a capable subwoofer or subwoofers do the heavy lifting and take the literal heat off of the receiver and speakers.

Set the surrounds also at 150 hz? How about LFE? It's at 120 at the moment.

 

[TLS Guy]

Set the surrounds also at 150 hz? How about LFE? It's at 120 at the moment.

LFE should always be at 120 Hz, that is the upper limit of the LFE.

 

[Squishman]

It sounded great last night watching an episode of Veep. I'm looking forward to another one tonight after the setting changes. I don't plan on using direct much or at all even.

Btw, my replacement woofers for the mini towers will be here on Tuesday.

 

[Trebdp83]

If the Surround speakers are the same as the Height Speakers, then they should be set the same way.

The bass issue with the Center Channel crossover set to 40Hz is exactly the reason so many play things too loudly chasing the bass dragon.

The subwoofer is cut off at the knees with two channel signals when the crossover setting is too low and many raise the volume to get bass levels that cannot be reached with those settings.

The LPF of LFE should always be set to 120Hz. This is for signals in the LFE channel of multichannel tracks that have a 120Hz ceiling. Setting it lower will diminish the bass output when playing multichannel tracks with LFE. If there is a .1 in the signal, it has LFE.

Folks need to think of their subwoofer as a multitasking device when connected to the Sub Pre Out of an AVP/AVR. It handles the LFE channel info AND ALSO the lower frequencies from all of the other channels below the crossover settings for each. They are separate processes and many confuse them.

Some might consider my posts very basic but they apply to many AVRs and speakers. There are AVP/AVRs with advanced features concerning speaker and subwoofer settings but those are for configurations in which truly full range speakers and subwoofers are present.