Witterings
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I've always bought just above mid range AV / Audio equipment assuming they'd be a reasonable quality but not really understood best ways to set them up but I'm suddenly erring owards becoming a minor audiophile and am starting to understand a bit more including what cross over levels for a sub mean.
Whilst it's an AV system I bought .... I thought it had a reasonably strong music orientation ... Denon AV 2311
My surround speakers are Acoustic Energy Evos sold as a package in those days.
The spec for the fronts is
Crossover 3-way, 8 element 12dB/octave slope at 350 Hz and 3.2 kHz.
High power inductor for bass.
High quality OFC wire to drive units Power handling 30 – 150 watt max
Overall frequency response 33 Hz – 22 kHz (38 Hz – 20 kHz ±3 dB)
Sensitivity 90 dB/1 w/1 m Impedance 8 ohm
I'm trying to figure out the best settings for the speakers / sub and if for music I should use the stereo or multispeaker setting for playing music.
I have the fronts set to large and the centre as well, playing music the sub doesn't seem to be be involved at all ...... it was set a full on the crossover (not sure if that's what their automated speaker set up told me to do before running it) and the volume was half way.
Both for TV and surround I have had to make some changes from their automated setup, the rears were totally overwhelming for both TV and stereo and having got those right so ideally don't really want to run it again.
Apologies ... I become awfully garbled at trying to explain stuff I don't have that much knowledge of and guess in essence my questions are:
1/. Should the Sub be active playing stereo music?
2/. If so is that dependant on stereo / multichannel stereo setting?
3/. If it should and it's not .... any ideas?
4/. Should my fronts / centre bet set to small or large?
Any help for someone who's always had a major apprectiation of music equipment but is rapidly heading towards the audiophile category would be greatly appreciated.
Whilst it's an AV system I bought .... I thought it had a reasonably strong music orientation ... Denon AV 2311
My surround speakers are Acoustic Energy Evos sold as a package in those days.
The spec for the fronts is
Crossover 3-way, 8 element 12dB/octave slope at 350 Hz and 3.2 kHz.
High power inductor for bass.
High quality OFC wire to drive units Power handling 30 – 150 watt max
Overall frequency response 33 Hz – 22 kHz (38 Hz – 20 kHz ±3 dB)
Sensitivity 90 dB/1 w/1 m Impedance 8 ohm
I'm trying to figure out the best settings for the speakers / sub and if for music I should use the stereo or multispeaker setting for playing music.
I have the fronts set to large and the centre as well, playing music the sub doesn't seem to be be involved at all ...... it was set a full on the crossover (not sure if that's what their automated speaker set up told me to do before running it) and the volume was half way.
Both for TV and surround I have had to make some changes from their automated setup, the rears were totally overwhelming for both TV and stereo and having got those right so ideally don't really want to run it again.
Apologies ... I become awfully garbled at trying to explain stuff I don't have that much knowledge of and guess in essence my questions are:
1/. Should the Sub be active playing stereo music?
2/. If so is that dependant on stereo / multichannel stereo setting?
3/. If it should and it's not .... any ideas?
4/. Should my fronts / centre bet set to small or large?
Any help for someone who's always had a major apprectiation of music equipment but is rapidly heading towards the audiophile category would be greatly appreciated.