connected my new sub yesterday - what a difference........

[Gerrardasnails]

..........anyone who has a half decent surround sound set up - think very carefully about your sub. I would imagine that there is the possibility that your speakers could be taken to another level. I have half decent front and rear speakers and up until yesterday my subwoofer was the Jamo SUB200 from the A10HCS5.1 system. I always thought it was decent and went fairly loud but yesterday I realised that it did not integrate with my other speakers and I'm now getting a completely different sound. The rear speakers are now far more informative and the booms from explosions and other low frequency sounds, actually are far more than just booms. The RSW-12 is supposed to go with my speakers but I was still surprised by the improvement in the overall sound. Also what amazed me is that a box of just over a foot cubed could weigh in at over 25kg!!

 

[Anonymous]

hope this isn't seen as a hijack - can I ask how you set the system up to properly use a sub in a surround system.

I have an Onkyo 905 with the Dali Ikon 6 7.1 speakers. I am using the pre-out on my Onkyo to connect the front 2 speakers to my stereo amp.

Auto setup in the Onkyo has listed all speakers as full band. If you could help me understand this - if all are full band, isn't this sending all the sound to the speakers, and nothing to the sub. So do I set a frequency level for each speaker, and if I do this, I presume this will not affect the front 2 when I am just playing music through a CDP connected to my stereo amp.

Sorry if these questions are basic but I would like to be sure I am getting the best out of my system.

Thanks

 

[Gerrardasnails]

First of all, I don't know much about Onkyos and "full band". I've just checked out your speakers and can see that the surrounds are smaller than the fronts. On my Sony receiver, I have the front speakers set to large and the rears to small. I have the frequency cut off set to 70Hz. I auto calibrated with my receiver and then played about a bit (it tells me that my mini bookshelf rears are large for instance). You have the same set up as me (front speakers connected to stereo amp and interconnect from amp to pre out on receiver). When you play music, you don't get anything from the receiver as the speaker wire from the front two is connected to the stereo amp. Back to the subwoofer. I'm assuming you have the Dali Ikon sub? This has an amplifier built in to it. How I understand it working is that any sound from your speakers that are under your frequency cutt off (in my case 70Hz) range, the subwoofer comes into play. If I am wrong then I apologise for talking gibberish and I will let an expert explain (I've only been in this hifi game a year!). I hope this helps though.

 

[Anonymous]

I have found that by letting my sub do much of the work the Onkyo 875 can concentrate its power (and reserves) to driving the midrange which improves the speed/timing/detail of my music.
To do this you want to manually set the frequency responses to 60 for the fronts, and say 80 for the rears, rather than have the set as 'full.'