Man... my sistem is start to making me mad with all the different setups I can get and I really, really need some opinions from you guys so PLEASE HELP ME!
Here's what I have today (and since yesterday)
As amplifier I have the pioneer VSX915 (and this is the origin of my problems by having to many choices available)
A "SWEET" Wharfedale POWERCUBE PC10 subwoofer
2 (also sweet) Wharfedale Diamond 10.1 (got them yesterday)
5 Pioneer (not so bad) satellites (I took them from an old SC-HT80)
Till yesterday I used 2 huge speakers from an old hifi from the 80's as front L R speakers and replaced them with the new Diamond's in my 7.1 setup (pioneer satelites for center and surrounds) and guess what? Almost no difference at all! The overall sound quality did not change that much. I guess that having a really good subwoofer handling tose low frequencies and a good amplifier making up for the lack of good sound reproduction from the 80's speakers with compensating frequencies coming out of the sattelites were the factors that made the investment in the wharfedale diamonds not satisfactory. My doubts now are:
1-Keep the 7.1 as it is now?
2-Bi-amp the Diamonds and switch to 5.1? (my amp allow this)
3-Use the bi-amp mode and route the frequencies coming out of the bass chanels that would go to the speakers end up in the Subwoofer?
Now the killer:
The thing is that there is an option on most of these pioneer amplifiers that allows the identification of speakers as LARGE or SMALL. If you select SMALL the bass frequencies that would be destined to those speakers end up beeing reproduced by the subwoofer, if you choose LARGE then all the signal goes to the speaker. For the subwoofer there is also an option called PLUS and what happens in this case is that all bass frequencies are continuously reproduced by the subwoofer even if there are LARGE speakers connected.
The wharfedale diamonds can reproduce low freq but if identifying them as LARGE has a similar effect of turning of the subwoofer because almost all the lower frequencies seem to somehow end up beeing reproduced by them... I almost forgot I can choose the crossover frequency between 50-80-100-150-200 HZ (wich one is the best considering the powercube says 35-95HZ and the diamonds 48-24khz)
So what do you think I should do?
For now I have 7.1 (that means no bi-amping for me) front Diamonds as LARGE and subwoofer as PLUS but the supposedly awsome diamond 10.1 sound so dull that they make no improvement in my system. Opinions?
Here's what I have today (and since yesterday)
As amplifier I have the pioneer VSX915 (and this is the origin of my problems by having to many choices available)
A "SWEET" Wharfedale POWERCUBE PC10 subwoofer
2 (also sweet) Wharfedale Diamond 10.1 (got them yesterday)
5 Pioneer (not so bad) satellites (I took them from an old SC-HT80)
Till yesterday I used 2 huge speakers from an old hifi from the 80's as front L R speakers and replaced them with the new Diamond's in my 7.1 setup (pioneer satelites for center and surrounds) and guess what? Almost no difference at all! The overall sound quality did not change that much. I guess that having a really good subwoofer handling tose low frequencies and a good amplifier making up for the lack of good sound reproduction from the 80's speakers with compensating frequencies coming out of the sattelites were the factors that made the investment in the wharfedale diamonds not satisfactory. My doubts now are:
1-Keep the 7.1 as it is now?
2-Bi-amp the Diamonds and switch to 5.1? (my amp allow this)
3-Use the bi-amp mode and route the frequencies coming out of the bass chanels that would go to the speakers end up in the Subwoofer?
Now the killer:
The thing is that there is an option on most of these pioneer amplifiers that allows the identification of speakers as LARGE or SMALL. If you select SMALL the bass frequencies that would be destined to those speakers end up beeing reproduced by the subwoofer, if you choose LARGE then all the signal goes to the speaker. For the subwoofer there is also an option called PLUS and what happens in this case is that all bass frequencies are continuously reproduced by the subwoofer even if there are LARGE speakers connected.
The wharfedale diamonds can reproduce low freq but if identifying them as LARGE has a similar effect of turning of the subwoofer because almost all the lower frequencies seem to somehow end up beeing reproduced by them... I almost forgot I can choose the crossover frequency between 50-80-100-150-200 HZ (wich one is the best considering the powercube says 35-95HZ and the diamonds 48-24khz)
So what do you think I should do?
For now I have 7.1 (that means no bi-amping for me) front Diamonds as LARGE and subwoofer as PLUS but the supposedly awsome diamond 10.1 sound so dull that they make no improvement in my system. Opinions?