I HATE the bass...
audiocr381ve
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I just purchased the RT1000P's and I really cannot stand the bass from these powered towers. Sure its great for home theater, but for music, its just down right annoying. The mid bass is absolutely neglected in this speaker. What I get is the thunderous lowww lowws on every song. Sounds like the annoying teenager with subs in his trunk in my home.
I'm have 2 sets of pre outs on my NAD C162 pre amp that are going to the towers internal amps. Luckily, one of them is a variable out (has a volume knob) so I'm able to turn the thundering bass down, but now I have hardly any bass to round out the spectrum.
What I'm wondering is can I send the outs from the preamp to an equalizer then to the towers internal amps (which only power the sub)??? Or will it not matter because the towers amps crossovers will filter the adjustments from an equalizer out anyway?
If this can't be worked out these will go up for sale.
I'm have 2 sets of pre outs on my NAD C162 pre amp that are going to the towers internal amps. Luckily, one of them is a variable out (has a volume knob) so I'm able to turn the thundering bass down, but now I have hardly any bass to round out the spectrum.
What I'm wondering is can I send the outs from the preamp to an equalizer then to the towers internal amps (which only power the sub)??? Or will it not matter because the towers amps crossovers will filter the adjustments from an equalizer out anyway?
If this can't be worked out these will go up for sale.
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Might want to let them settle in a bit, to give the mids a chance to bloom.
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The RT1000P's are over a decade old and discontinued. They are fully bloomed ;-)
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lol! how much power on the mids? and do you have any acoustic treatments?
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Sounds like some kind of double filtering is going on. Regardless, I have owned these in the past and must say they were the fastest polks I ever moved out. Not a big fan of powered towers,but to each his own. Try them on their own,in other words,just hook up speaker cables only,put the jumpers back in,plug 'em in, and set the volume dial about at the midway point.
The way I take your description,is you have no amplifier,just a pre amp ? The built in amp on those speakers is just meant to drive the bottom end. You have to feed them power from a receiver or amp.HT SYSTEM-
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Just get different more musical speakers. Sda's might work for you.
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Nope, I'm feeding them MORE than enough power. Tried leaving the internal amps off, terrible...
My biggest question was about the equalizer. Will the internal amps filter out the adjustments from an external amplifier therefore voiding the purpose of even using one? -
i'm thinking they were not designed for music per se'.
better suited for home theater.. i'd sell them and move to a more musical tower.PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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I had a pair of them and ran them with a CS400i center.
They were very limited for lower volume music but did perform well at low volumes. They did sound like crap on their own for music though. The CS400 helped them out quite a bit. I finally got the center close enough to the rear wall that the rear bass diverter on the center filled in the soundstage quite well. Again they were limited to medium to low volume.
I do remember having to tighten the screws in the internal woofers which helped quite a bit. One of them only had 3 screws installed from the factory too.
IF you're going to use them for music only you should probably move them on and go to a nice monitor. -
danger boy wrote: »i'm thinking they were not designed for music per se'.
better suited for home theater.. i'd sell them and move to a more musical tower.
Yeah, I think danger boy is right. RT Stands for "Reference Theater". If you got a good price on them, you might consider keeping them and getting a more musical speaker for your tunes.
