RX-V757 and Subwoofer Connection ?

J

jdelgado89

Enthusiast
R

rschleicher

Audioholic
My opinion is to do it differently than shown in the speaker system manual. How they have it is with the subwoofer unit doing the bass management. So they have the front speakers set to Large, then run to the "speaker in" jacks on the subwoofer (and then separate speaker wires from the sub-woofer "speaker out" jacks to the front speakers). In this set-up the sub is using its own cross-overs to pull the low base from the receiver's front speaker outputs.

I think you are better off to use the bass management capabilities that your receiver has. Set all speakers to small, and run the fronts, center, and side surround speaker outputs to the five smal speakers directly. Then, run a RCA-type cable from the LFE out of the receiver to the LFE input on the sub. In your receiver menus, beside having all speakers set to Small, also set the sub-woofer to ON. Assuming there is a cross-over adjustment on your subwoofer, set it as high as possible, and then set the receiver's cross-over frequency to where you want the cut-off to occur between the 5 little speakers and the sub (80 Hz is not bad as a starting point, although maybe even a little higher would be appropriate for those speakers). The level adjust on the subwoofer should be set around mid-range to start, or maybe a little above mid-range.

You're receiver has the automated set-up with a microphone, so once the speakers and sub are connected, the auto set-up process will probably get most of the above right, and also balance the levels and distance settings for all of the speakers. You may still need to play with the sub's level and polarity setting a bit, though.

In short, do things the way your receiver manual recommends, and NOT the way the speaker manual says.
 
M

MDS

Audioholic Spartan
Note also that the Polk website has an article recommending the speaker level hookup too, but it is WAY out of date. The reason for their recommendation was essentially that many receivers at the time had a fixed crossover frequency of 80 or 90 Hz and that is a bit low for small satellite speakers - so they recommend the speaker level hookup so you can use the sub's xover and set it to 100 or 120 Hz.

You will be hard pressed to find a receiver today that has a fixed xover and using the speaker level hookup is not recommended if the receiver has an adjustable xover. The receiver also has a level adjustment for the sub and that is necessary to get the sub to blend with the other speakers (the auto-setup will probably get that right).
 

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