Large or small

zeke14

Denon AVR 1801
Polk RTi6 front speakers
Polk CSi 3 center speaker

I do not have a subwoofer.

Should I set all my speakers to Large to compensate for the lack of a subwoofer. Some have said to leave the center speaker at small and put the RTi6s at large. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Zeke

polktiger

I would just set them all to large. Definately NOT all to small, and 6s large with center small, maybe, but I would just make it easy and run them all large.

Well...maybe all to small if you can set the crossover point with the crossover set to the low end of the RTi6's range (that way you don't waste any amp power on frequencies outside the range of your speakers.) I think factory preset commonly cuts the small at 120 which will cause you to miss some if you run them all at small (unless you can drop the crossover below 120, even at 80 you will probably miss a little bit - for your speakers I would try to get to 60.)

McLoki

If you set the subwoofer to off (or none), I think you HAVE to set your front speakers to large.

If your fronts were towers with much more bass capability than your center, I would say fronts to large and center to small, but in your case they are close enough in bass capability, I would just set them all (fronts and center) to large.

Michael

zeke14

Thanks for the responses.

Although, I did not understand Polktiger's suggestions.

I'm going with large on all 3 speakers.

On my Denon, I can put the speakrs as small without a subwoofer.

Zeke

bobman1235

Yeah I'm pretty sure all large / small does is change the crossover point - if you have no subwoofer, there's nothing to crossover to, so all you'd be doing is cutting them off at that point.

mjhughes

Set the sub to "no", front speakers to "large" and center an surround to small.

Frank Z

Large or Small has nothing to do with physical size.

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