davejberry:Timbot:
So what constitutes a "big" speaker and a "small" speaker?
I'd be interested on people's feedback but will also have a bit of a fiddle with the settings...
I suggest small speakers are those that don't produce reasonable bass below 120hz, such as in lifestyle systems, something similar to Bose satellites for example. Anything bigger than a bag of sugar should be set to large, if not, most bass will be sent to the sub.
No, thats not correct. Even a 2 metre high floor stander with 6 inch bass drivers that can go down to 40Hz can be set-up and considered 'small' in terms of auto-eq set-up, it simply means the bass below the crossover is being sent to the sub, and this depends on the equipment and room for best set-up.
On my old Onkyo 905 the Audyssey set-up always set the front three speakers to 'Large', but always sounded better by changing them to small with a crossover set at 80Hz. Now with my LX-83, I am gradually finding, because of the amps increased clarity, I get better sound with the front L/R set to large - though the centre still sound clearer set to small.
The conventional thinking is, as I understand it, that even a full range speaker will generally produce a better/clearer mid and top range frequencies if it does not have to use the available amplification power to produce the much more energy consuming lower bass frequencies.