RTi A9 Hookup Question
williamgauci
Posts: 88
in Speakers
Looking for an informed opinion,
Ordered a pair of A9's last night on sale and looking forward to satisfying my upgrade itch finally. I'm using A7's with an A6 centre and A1's for my surrounds. Older Yamaha HTR6080 and an Emotiva XPA-5. Everything sounds nice to my ears at least. So I'm waiting for the A9's to arrive and I'm wondering if the 200 watts per channel is adequate for the A9's?
I've been toying with the thought of maybe using 4 amp channels for the A9's. Use a Y splitter from my receiver left and right pre outs into separate amp channels and powering the mids and highs separately. Use the 5th channel for my centre and let my receiver power my rear speakers. I know this isn't bi amping, but is there any real benefit to splitting the loads like this or not. Or is it best to just let my amp run each speaker the way I'm running things now?
Ordered a pair of A9's last night on sale and looking forward to satisfying my upgrade itch finally. I'm using A7's with an A6 centre and A1's for my surrounds. Older Yamaha HTR6080 and an Emotiva XPA-5. Everything sounds nice to my ears at least. So I'm waiting for the A9's to arrive and I'm wondering if the 200 watts per channel is adequate for the A9's?
I've been toying with the thought of maybe using 4 amp channels for the A9's. Use a Y splitter from my receiver left and right pre outs into separate amp channels and powering the mids and highs separately. Use the 5th channel for my centre and let my receiver power my rear speakers. I know this isn't bi amping, but is there any real benefit to splitting the loads like this or not. Or is it best to just let my amp run each speaker the way I'm running things now?
_____________________________________________
Yamaha 6080 Emotiva XPA-5 CSi A6 RTiA-7's RTi A1's Velodyne DLS-4000R
Yamaha 6080 Emotiva XPA-5 CSi A6 RTiA-7's RTi A1's Velodyne DLS-4000R
Comments
-
Others can chime in that know more, but I would stay the way you are.Pio Elete Pro 520
Panamax 5400-EX
Sunfire TGP 5
Micro Seiki DD-40 - Lyra-Dorian and Denon DL-160
PS Audio GCPH phono pre
Sunfire CG 200 X 5
Sunfire CG Sig 405 X 5
OPPO BDP-83 SE
SDA SRS 1.2TL Sonicaps and Mills
Ctr CS1000p
Sur - FX1000 x 4
SUB - SVS PB2-Plus
Workkout room:
Sony Bravia XBR- 32-Inch 1080p
Onkyo TX-DS898
GFA 555
Yamaha DVD-S1800BL/SACD
Ft - SDA 1C
Not being used:
RTi 38's -4
RT55i's - 2
RT25i's -2, using other 2 in shop
LSI 15's
CSi40
PSW 404 -
What's your crossover set to?Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Its been awhile since a played with my settings, but I believe its at 80hz with my speakers set to small in my setup._____________________________________________
Yamaha 6080 Emotiva XPA-5 CSi A6 RTiA-7's RTi A1's Velodyne DLS-4000R -
Right, so you'll gain nothing by getting the A9's.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Thanks for the input._____________________________________________
Yamaha 6080 Emotiva XPA-5 CSi A6 RTiA-7's RTi A1's Velodyne DLS-4000R -
The A9's have a "better" midrange than the rest of the RTiA line. I think if you liked the sound of the a7's with the Emotiva than you'll be just fine with the a9's. 200watts should be enough, but if you're Avr will feed the rear surround preouts the l/r signal when in biamp mode then I would certainly try that method.Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
-
williamgauci wrote: »Its been awhile since a played with my settings, but I believe its at 80hz with my speakers set to small in my setup.
Try setting your speakers to large and see how you like the sound. You may get more out of those 7's you have now.
If you get the 9's, lower your crossover point some to allow the speakers to handle more of that mid bass.HT SYSTEM-
Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
lsi 9's -
FWIW, I run my A9's as Large, LFE Crossover set to 80hz.
If you have four channels of amplification you may find some benefit to quad-amping them. I've toyed around with it a bit but not enough to form conclusions yet, however they're getting 350 high current watts as is, so doubling that may not yield much more than more volume.
I did find a very slight improvement with bi-wiring, mostly with the tightness and definition of the bass.Up
LSi15 LSiC - RX-V3000
Down
LSiM707 - 706c - 702f/x - Dual HSU VTF-15H Mk2
Parasound HCA-3500 - HCA-2003A - Marantz SR7005
Sim2 D60 - Dragonfly 106" Panny 500 -
Thanks for the advice. Actually double checked and realized I changed my crossover down to 60hz awhile back when I last redid my speaker levels. I also did have them set to large as well. I guess I'll wire everything up, do my set up and try a few different crossover settings to start with. Give it a few weeks and see how I like the sound and then decide. Sounds like it wont be much different and I've read that splitting the signal isn't the wisest way to do it anyway._____________________________________________
Yamaha 6080 Emotiva XPA-5 CSi A6 RTiA-7's RTi A1's Velodyne DLS-4000R
