Crossover - 150 or 200?

rdfroese
rdfroese Posts: 3
edited November 2004 in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
From a newbie (its going to get obvious fast)
I just bought a Pioneer 814 and Polk's new rms6750. The AVR has 100-150-200 crossover settings. I set that to 200 cause I read it somewhere to do that...
I have set all speakers to small (naturally) and hooked the sub to the AVR's preout using a sub cable with an adapter that goes into both RCA jacks on the sub. Did I get it right?:(
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  • gregit
    gregit Posts: 284
    edited November 2004
    If you have the front and rear speakers wired directly into the AVR I believe you should set the AVR X-over to 100. If you are running the speaker output to the sub and then to the speakers you should disable the AVR X-over and use the sub's internal x-over (assuming the sub has that feature).


    Good luck and welcome!!
    Greg

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2004
    Seems like you are one track...

    Your satellites are small, so you may need to go higher than 100 for the x-over setting, but 200 seems too high.

    Try all three settings, repeating the same scene from a DVD and see what sounds best to you.

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  • rdfroese
    rdfroese Posts: 3
    edited November 2004
    Thanks for the information and the welcome!
    The sub does have a phase control (is that the crossover control with a different name?) and a volume control. Anyways, I will try different permutations and hear which is best. This is a very helpful forum; thanks Mr. Polk!
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited November 2004
    Welcome.

    The phase control is not the crossover.

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