Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Axiom speakers & your AVR crossover setting

Joe, it's not really new...and to each their own... but the general thinking is to set even speakers that are physically large to the "small" setting, as the sub is still the best speaker to handle the bass. Plus, the subs' amp takes a good load off the receiver, which now doesn't have to push watts for those lower frequencies.

Personally, I have my Denon receiver to send bass to both the M60s and the sub, because in my poor acoustic environment, the more bass sources, the more even the bass response.

Fronts Large 40hz

Centre Small 60hz

Surrounds Small 150hz

Just set my center and surrounds to 100HZ. Sounds pretty good, I might up the qs4s and see how they sound.

Joe, it isn't "new" at all; the basic rationale behind bass management is to have the sub handle the frequencies where it does best, up to 80Hz or so, and to have all the speakers set "Small"(regardless of their physical size)so that part of the bass load is taken off of them and the higher range is played a bit more cleanly.

Doesn't the large setting mean full range, thus effectively eliminating any crossover?

Well, as I understand it, they will run full range, but the front channel frequencies below 40 hz will also go to the sub.

I reran Audyssey and this is what it came up with the last time I ran it. Before that, I was running fronts on small at 60hz, centre small at 80hz and surrounds at 150hz more a less sticking to conventional wisdom. Fred made a good point, imo, about running the fronts large to help even out the bass in the room. I know there's different opinions on this, but the M80's can certainly handle their share of bass, so why not run them large? If you push your reciever to extreme levels, I can understand peoples reluctance to tax the avr amp too much and let the sub amp take over more of the bass, but that's where a separate may be of benefit.

For me all speakers set to small, also confirmed after running Denon setup. Audyssey settings matched what I normally manually followed, 80's at 60hz, 150 at 80hz, Qs8's at 90hz.

There must be something a little odd with my room, although it's not much different than what other people have described reg their rooms. I always get, what I consider, high crossover points on the surrounds...up around 120-150hz.

Thanks, I may try that and see if I like it.