subwoofer
phlinnie
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What is the best way to hook a powered subwoofer. I have heard using the sub out on the back of the receiver is not always the best solution.
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that can be true depending on your speakers and receiver. What are you using?
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I am using a pair of polk Monitor 30 book shelves for fronts a Polk csi5 for center and a yamaha sub with yamaha surrounds. (eventually everything will be polk.) My receiver is a pioneer elite vsx55txi
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Ph, it isn't always the best solution, but the Polk speakers that you have would do well with your 55Txi rolling them off below 80Hz, so using the sub output to connect the sub with a cable using RCA plugs should be fine. If the sub has an input or switch to bypass its internal crossover use it; if not, set the sub's crossover control all the way up to get it as far out of the way as possible from the 80Hz crossover that the 55Txi is handling.
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Thank you for your response,
My subwoofer goes to 150hz should I put the cross over all the way to this point. Be gentle I'm just learning so I don't understand all the lingo yet. -
ok thats good now set your speakers to small with subwoofer "yes"
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i agree. rca plugs with crossover on receiver set to 80hz with speakers as "small"
however- i know you're supposed to set the crossover all the way on your sub to by-pass it- but what this does (at least on my velodyne) is make the sub play the higher bass information that leads to blaring and the sub being localized.
I set my H/K receiver to 80hz AND set my sub to 80hz. I know this isn't popular- but even Velodyne recommends that it's good sometimes in certain rooms to "stagger" the crossover a bit.
What i'm trying to say is that my system blends alot better with the sub set at 80hz and the receiver set at 80hz. I hated it when my Velodyne was playing bass on it's max cross over setting (120hz). It sounded horrible. Regardless, you'll prob. like their suggestion better- but give mine a try. You might be surprised.
