Question about bass management

[joebob]

I read the recent article about bass management, good article. My receiver, Yamaha RXV2500, has a setting for bass out to: Sub, Front or Both. What is the difference between this setting and the Large/Small speaker setting? I would think that setting the front speakers to large or small would make the determination on the bass output. The bass out setting seems redundant. Thoughts?

Sorry if this is a newbie question.

 

[jcPanny]

Bass Management

Joebob,
The bass management settings do overlap somewhat, but here is the distinction. The SMALL/LARGE setting relates to the audio track for each speaker and enables/disables the crossover. The SUB, FRONT, BOTH setting relates to the LFE track and allows you to route this signal to the fronts if you don't have a sub, etc. By using the BOTH setting, you are sending all of the LFE content to the fronts and sub, not just the info from the fronts.

For most speaker configurations, speakers set to SMALL, and LFE to sub are the best configuration.

 

[Tomorrow]

This is usually confusing to those just getting started. JCPanny is absolutely correct in his description.

But just to reinforce the information to you...there are TWO distinct signals that are being set up with your 2500. There is the discrete LFE channel used in Dolby Digital. It is the ".1" in 5.1 (or 7.1). It is purely Low Frequency Effects. And there is also the main audio which includes redirected bass..all the low frequency audio from the full-range audio track. This could include frequencies as low as signals in the LFE channel. (Why the ".1" LFE you ask? LOL. Dolby patched it on their digital tracks for movie theater purposes, as a means of adding more powerful bass to the Dolby audio tracks. It's limited to <120 Hz effects.)

It is highly recommended that you set all your speakers to small, bass out to Sub, crossover at 80 Hz. This setting will be ideal in most situations. Use it as a starting point and experiment if you like.

Good luck with you system.

 

[joebob]

Thanks for the explanations, guys. Good stuff.

 

[shokhead]

This is usually confusing to those just getting started. JCPanny is absolutely correct in his description.

But just to reinforce the information to you...there are TWO distinct signals that are being set up with your 2500. There is the discrete LFE channel used in Dolby Digital. It is the ".1" in 5.1 (or 7.1). It is purely Low Frequency Effects. And there is also the main audio which includes redirected bass..all the low frequency audio from the full-range audio track. This could include frequencies as low as signals in the LFE channel. (Why the ".1" LFE you ask? LOL. Dolby patched it on their digital tracks for movie theater purposes, as a means of adding more powerful bass to the Dolby audio tracks. It's limited to <120 Hz effects.)

It is highly recommended that you set all your speakers to small, bass out to Sub, crossover at 80 Hz. This setting will be ideal in most situations. Use it as a starting point and experiment if you like.

Good luck with you system.

And i think a lot of people get this messed up, bass and .1.

 

[Tomorrow]

And i think a lot of people get this messed up, bass and .1.

Yep, I sure had it wrong for a long time.