PaulE Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 My speakers are SB-3 up front, with matching center and surrounds, with active subwoofer. I'm sure this has been answered ad infinitum, only I couldnt find any references, so I'll ask again: In a typical home theater receiver, like my Sony STR-V333ES, how should I set my speaker sizes? I currently have my center set at small, with center channel crossover set at 80 hz, and my rear surrounds are also set small, with crossover set at 120 hz. And, I currently have my front SB-3s set as Large. Should I change these fronts to small also? Its more important to me these days to get music sounding the best,so that's how I want to tune it...I believe that for music, it sounds better setting the fronts to Large, for full range listening...Also, if I were to set the fronts to small, with the crossover set anywhere around 80 hz, I believe the bass sent to the sub would be audibly directional at that frequency. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htxpert Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 Hi Paul If you have a capable subwoofer select the small setting Xover at 80Hz for the front mains Also you may want to experiment with the center at 120Hz Dont forget to adjust the Xover on the Subwoofer to a setting higher than that of your highest Xover You may have a small localization problem,but at least you will not be giving up any part of the LFE the trade off is more than worth it. I have been telling people for years that the correct setting for all speakers is small in 98% of the systems Even if you ran full range towers in the front a small setting is correct I am going to post a link in the Home Theater section on Bass Management Cheers Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boa12 Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 ht, please do. i've been ranting for a while now on that fixed 80hz thx spec that most receivers seem to use. more should do like sony es & allow one to adjust that low bass cut-off on the small setting. imo, 80hz is too high to start cutting bass to the klf-30. should be closer to 60hz. don't get the bass slam on the klf-30 as much w/ the small setting & my velo hgs-18 is best up to about 50hz max. agree it does sound better on music cd w/ the small setting though. less overlap w/ klf-30 & vel from 40-80hz than w/ large. i run the vel w/ it's crossover switched out as don't want to cut-off any LFE. so the other ideal would be if i could run the fronts large & control the receiver's sub out/low bass cut-off say down to 50-60hz instead of the fixed 100hz my marantz uses. ------------------ Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear) Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer Monsterbass 400 sub interconnect & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable Marantz SR-8000 receiver Sony DVP-C650D 5-disk cd/dvd player Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr Technics dual cassette deck Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box Boa's Listenin Lounge: Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear) Monster MCX Biwires Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975) Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3 Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer Technics SL-1950 turntable/AT LS500 cartridge Sega Genesis game player Sub: None yet rock on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulE Posted July 6, 2001 Author Share Posted July 6, 2001 Thanks for the responses....I'm still unclear about one thing though...The freq response of my Sb3s goes down to 52 hz. The SC1 center goes down to 60 hz, as do my surrounds. Given these minimum frequencies, then why would I want to set my receiver crossover at 80 hz? Is it because we are allowing for a 20 hz error in rating, or, because of the slope of the rolloff, we want to allow the approx 20 hz between the 80 hz setting, and the 60 hz freq response rating? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boa12 Posted July 7, 2001 Share Posted July 7, 2001 paul, the sony es is dif than most of the a/v receivers out there w/ that adjustable cut-off in the bass mgmt. wish i had it. not sure, but i think on the small setting you can control the cut-off point to each of the channel/speaker groups. f.e., for a better blend between sub & fronts on music u could try that set on like 60 or 70hz w/ the sub's cross turned all the way to 120hz(or crossover switched out depending on the sub). for music the sub should blend in w/ the other speaks w/o being too distinct/directional/pronounced or muddy sounding. depends on your bass tastes of course, but try using that adjustable crossover on the sony as that's really the cure for the sub/fronts low bass problems some w/o it are having. ------------------ Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear) Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer Monsterbass 400 sub interconnect & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable Marantz SR-8000 receiver Sony DVP-C650D 5-disk cd/dvd player Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr Technics dual cassette deck Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box Boa's Listenin Lounge: Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear) Monster MCX Biwires Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975) Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3 Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer Technics SL-1950 turntable/AT LS500 cartridge Sega Genesis game player Sub: None yet rock on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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