Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners EP350 or EP400?

Bob that is contrary to Alan's 'Receiver and Subwoofer Crossover Setup' article, here's an excerpt...

'For Axiom’s larger tower speakers--the M80ti’s, M60ti’s, and M50ti’s--depending on the particulars of room size, start by selecting the "Large" setting on your receiver for the left and right main speakers, and "Small" for the center and surround channels. With these settings, and the subwoofer set to "On," most receivers will route full-range sound, including deep bass, to the main left and right speakers, and bass below 80 Hz to the "Sub Out" jack on the rear panel of the receiver. (Some rooms may benefit from smoother bass by getting deep bass from three room locations--the sub plus the main left and right speakers--rather than a single subwoofer.) If running your left and right fronts on "Large" produces too much bass output, change the settings for the mains to "Small." You can also experiment with crossover frequencies, raising the center-channel crossover frequency to 120 Hz if you find that results in smoother dialog sound with less coloration. But 80 Hz is a generally desirable crossover frequency in most applications.'

Here's the entire article... Reciever and Subwoofer Crossover Setup

I am using two subs with my 80's set to 'large' without any cancellations issues ... that I know of anyway.

I am constantly amazed at how important room and placement issues are. A horrible room can single handedly make an expensive system not sound so good.

I have heard of room having a huge effect but not to the extent of totaly cancelling a sub. I suspect there was something wrong inside the sub and for some reason, it is now working.

::runs away with hands over the ears::

Keep them there Mark, After awhile you won't remember how bad your room actually is.

Having a bad room, I used to be surprised at how good my system sounded. As I learned more, it seems that most things have a much more subtle effect than many would have you believe. Call it the 'Blows this away' theory. People really want for there to be large differences between A and B, be it two sets of speakers a perfect room and a bad room, treated vs untreated...

Hell, I cut my giant room peak but 14db, a HUGE amount, and the difference is quite subtle. Maybe if I am able to resolve all my room issues the difference will be more pronounced, but I still doubt that the 'fixed' room will 'blow away' the original setup.

Maybe if you take the perfect recording in the perfect room with perfect speakers, it will blow away thaty crappy recording in that crappy room with crappy speakers, but in reality, there are just so many variables how likely is it that this will happen?

I'm not sure what this was referring to. I agree that 2 subs stacked (and preferably side by side) will NOT cancel out each other.

I know little about PA Systems and much less about HT. It is pretty common knowledge and discussion where it is highly likely that 2 subs apart can have cancelling effects.(And I believe especially in the sweet spot.) I have NOT experienced this with my PA System.

Here is my referrence for PA talk http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/22769.html

I will probably not try the large setting myself because of the close proximity of the M80's to the walls. I don't want any boominess.

Good lord, it hurts nothing to try.

I thought he had the same problem whether the mains were set to large or small. I will have to go back and read through the posts.