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I am hearing people talking about "crossing over" at certain levels for certain speakers.

I have absolutely no idea what this is. Can anyone recommend a website or article that would help me learn what this is?

Or, if it is easily explained, can you type a brief description??

Thanks for you help. I am buying my speakers tomorrow!!!!!

Mike

When talking about the sub and LFE (Low Frequency Effects) this is a frequency set on the receiver or sub. Frequencies below this setting will be routed to the sub. Some speakers are not capable of going waaaaaay down low, so you set a crossover that will reroute those signals to the sub. Now there are a lot of variations and recommendations on how to do this, and options can vary from receiver to receiver.

Hopefully that is what your were talking about.....I'm sure others will chime in here and confuse the heck out of ya

Audioholics Techtips

I have a real problem; I find that one of my wifes' favorite TV shows has a gal as host, and she has a voice in the lower of female voice regesters. So looow in fact, that a component of her voice pops up on the sub when she talks-how annoying is that!? Other voices do too, and it really, really bugs me!! This happens when I have the crossover to the center set to 80hz.

So I do the easy thing!

My new receiver allows me to use a lower crossover; down to 60hz(I wish I could do each speaker individually-if I could put the surrounds down to 40hz, I'd pop for a couple of those rediculously inexpensive M40s for out back!)Anyway, I crossover my center at 60 rather than 80hz and the voices no longer appear in the sub! Voila!!(I use full range speakers in all positions, so 60hz crossover is not a problem)

Now, if they would only come out with QS10s with 6.5" drivers.....

Are you sure it is a gal, wow, that is low.....maybe it is the old singer from the Oak Ridge Boys in disguise

i was thinking Randy Travis in drag....