Do they make EQ's with speaker inputs/outputs?

AllTheTimer

I live in an apartment, with a 5.0 setup, and I'm trying to eliminate all or most sounds from like 120-200hz on down. The highest setting for the crossover in my receiver is 120hz. When I select it, though, I still feel like there's too much bass coming from my speakers.

Also, the tone setting in the receiver only affects the front speakers, and truthfully, it doesn't even do much in that regard.

So, anyway, do they make EQs for this purpose, that I could run between the speaker outs on my receiver and the speaker ins on my speakers? Or if not, is there a cheap way to work around it? Or should I just buy some small satellite speakers? Thanks.

dkg999

Try "night mode" in your receiver! This will lower the spl on the low frequencies, among other technical details I don't remember. I am in an apt. and use it on my Yamaha HTR.

sickicw

also you might want to turn the subwoofer mode to "on" if it isn't selected already. that way the low frequency effects will not be sent to your other speakers. Other than that, you might try room treatments to block some of the lower frequency.

AllTheTimer

Thanks for the tips--all those things definitely help. But I think I figured out what I need to do. I need to buy a new receiver.

I just noticed on a few new receivers that they have crossovers all the way up to 250hz. I never knew that. That solves my problem completely.

Back when I was shopping for receivers a couple years back, I didn't see any crossovers over like 160. Guess that's something new. Seems kinda crazy to buy a new receiver just for the crossover, but oh well...

bknauss

To the original post, no... never have heard of such a thing. For EQ purposes, you would need to convert the high level/speaker level signal down to line level so the EQ can be added... then amplify the signal back to speaker/high level. So basically that's a receiver. Good call on getting a new receiver

AllTheTimer

bknauss wrote:

To the original post, no... never have heard of such a thing. For EQ purposes, you would need to convert the high level/speaker level signal down to line level so the EQ can be added... then amplify the signal back to speaker/high level. So basically that's a receiver. Good call on getting a new receiver

Lol, thanks. When you break it down like that, I was defintiely making things more complicated than they need to be. Hopefully the crossover will do the trick.