Question about the Tannoy fx5.1/onkyo tx-sr601

[wixy]

<font color='#000000'>I am considering purchasing the tannoy fx5.1 speakers and onkyo tx-sr601 receiver as uses In the audioholics fx5.1 review. It was said &quot;I set up the Onkyo receiver so that all the speakers were set to small and the subwoofer was crossed over at 140 Hz. &quot; However the onkyo receivers feature list (on thier website) says that it can only be crossed over at 60/80/100/120/150Hz. Is this wrong, or can it be manually set to 140hz? If not, and i purchased both these items, what would i set the frequency as on the reciever? 120 or 150Hz?

This niggling question is the only thing holding me back from buying them!</font>

 

[Audioholics]

<font color='#000080'>Typo. Thanks for catching it - start by setting it to 120Hz.</font>

 

[wixy]

<font color='#000000'>so would there be a better reciever then for the fx5.1 subwooder? (which is rated as 45hz-140hz)

or does having the reciever as 120hz matter?</font>

 

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>Any a/v receiver will work fine. You are crossing over at 120 for the small satt speakers, not for the sub. The reason for this is because the small speakers can not effectively reproduce frequencies below 140!</font>

 

[wixy]

<font color='#000000'>but the review said the sub was crossed over</font>

 

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>ok, lets say your receiver produces a frequency from 20hz-20khz. We have to split that frequency BTW the sub &amp; the other speakers. Due to the fact that the small satt speakers can not reproduce bass, at all it looks like, we have to make that sub reproduce it. In a basic system, you would split the frequency at 80hz, sending every frequency below 80hz to the sub, &amp; every frequency above 80hz to the other speakers. Then these other speakers split what is left BTW them sending 80hz-4.5khz to the mid &amp; 4.5kz-20kz to the tweeter because they have an internal crossover!</font>

 

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>Why not start with a pair of good bookshelf speakers &amp; a good a/v receiver. This should sound tons better than what you are considering, and later add a sub. And then, add two more speakers, either towers or bookshelf! Voila!

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