Comments on: Home Theater Subwoofer Setup

By: sean

sean — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:05:03 +0000

I’m building a home theater system and have installed all of my in ceiling speakers and ran all of my HDMI wires, CAT5, phone and ever other wire you can think of. Now it’s time to buy the stereo to run the entire house. I need a two zone system so I can play music in the rest of the house while running the movie room. I have a simple 5.1 system in the theater but have 6-8 more speakers to run in the rest of the house. Any suggestions would be great.

By: sean

sean — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:05:00 +0000

By: William

William — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:37:04 +0000

I have a velodyne SPL 1000 subwoofer. It has Low pass crossover 40 to 120Hz. Also, a phase adjustment 0 – 180. It also has crossover switch-Internal x-over/subwoofer direct. Thing is whats the best setting for good bass response without overload? I have an integra amp 120 total x 7. Has eq setting in menue. However, receiver has eq setting at 80Hz, 250Hz, 800Hz. 2.5KHz, and 8KHz. What do those frenquiy mean? What frenquency is high, what’s low? What are good settings for sub and main speaker frenquencies?

By: William

William — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:37:00 +0000

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:47:03 +0000

Hi Bill, high cut would be but phase is used to blend the sub with the mains.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:47:00 +0000

Hi Bill, high cut would be but phase is used to blend the sub with the mains.

By: bill

bill — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:41:29 +0000

hi, good article–my manual refers to “HIGH CUT” and PHASE—are these crossovers or ?? thanks BIll

By: bill

bill — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:41:00 +0000

hi, good article–my manual refers to “HIGH CUT” and PHASE—are these crossovers or ?? thanks BIll

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:40:50 +0000

Hi Ken, possibly by using speaker level inputs on the sub if that’s an option. Otherwise your options are obviously limited.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:40:00 +0000

Hi Ken, possibly by using speaker level inputs on the sub if that’s an option. Otherwise your options are obviously limited.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:40:49 +0000

hi and well done with the article. I have come by a powered sub (Kenwood) and would like to use it with my system. It only has a single line in input. My Phillips proligic amp does not have a sub out. Is there a way i can connect the sub?

thankyou…

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:40:00 +0000

thankyou…

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:24:02 +0000

Right you are SubGuy, however if you’ll take a look at the articles date it was quite some time ago and receivers with sophisticated bass management weren’t quite as common as they are today.

By all means take my setup instructions the same whether you’re using the on-board crossover or the bass management controls in your receiver.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:24:00 +0000

Right you are SubGuy, however if you’ll take a look at the articles date it was quite some time ago and receivers with sophisticated bass management weren’t quite as common as they are today.

By all means take my setup instructions the same whether you’re using the on-board crossover or the bass management controls in your receiver.

By: SubGuy

SubGuy — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:07:15 +0000

Most setup instructions have the crossover on the sub itself disabled, or turned up all the way if there is no way to disable it, with the bass management within the surround receiver used instead to roll off the bass from the main channels by setting them to large, and re-routing that bass to the subwoofer.