Setting a subwoofer's crossover for best sound

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  @Scopolamine46 · 4 years ago (edited)

  That’s pretty much how I set up my subwoofer and it’s a very tricky adjustment to get right as you said. I also found that by adjusting a phase control that I have on my Carver True Sub  made a truly substantial difference by locking-in the entire soundfield that was being presented  by my Maggie 3.6R’s and this sub. That adjustment took me well over 20 minutes to get just right once I realized that something positive was happening as I was in the process of fiddling with the phase control. It was well worth the time and effort.

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  @steveodian6008 · 4 years ago

  Paul, I took your advice and added two REL S 812’s to my system. What an incredible improvement they made. Those M1200’s drive them beautifully!!!<br>Thanks for the advice!!!!

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  @mrpmj00 · 1 year ago

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  @justanobody4983 · 4 years ago

  To me, setting the subwoofers are the hardest to get right BUT when you do get it right, its just so satisfying. The problem when you try to overlap, its sometimes hard to pinpoint where its going wrong. From the positioning, volume, crossover point, and sometimes the phase. Every subwoofer response to different rooms makes it hard to give a general advise, you just have to play around with it until you get it right. The only general rule i have is when buying a subwoofer for mainly music application, get a sealed sub.

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  @scott2115 · 7 months ago

  Great. &nbsp;Great, simple explanation. &nbsp;Thanks.

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  @howardskeivys4184 · 4 years ago

  I have a pair of large floorstanders, which reach really low. But as Paul rightly says thee roll off is steep and my Rel subs augment that bottom end. The beauty of Rel subs is that the cross-over control is not calibrated, no visual indication of which value your setting. So, you absolutely have to allow your ears to be the judge. In my experience, that does take some time and trial and error, but you will know when you’ve got it right.<br><br>Again, as Paul correctly points out, regardless of how full range your main speakers are, unless they have integral active subs, you will substantially benefit from the addition of external subs and they don’t have or need to be ginormous power houses.<br><br>Enjoy the music!

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  @scottdavis0801 · 1 year ago

  I just bought a pair of Spendor s20 speakers and put a small audioengine s6 subwoofer with them, and was completely floored!!😂

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  @anandshah71 · 4 years ago

  I love such informative videos <br>Also most imp Paul mentioning what to note in the track very important <br>Thank you. Need more tracks and what to look for in those tracks

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  @memania- · 1 year ago

  Boz skaggs tune is a fantastic test tune, thanks!

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  @know-c4j · 1 year ago

  Good Sub woofer Sense! 🤫

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  @GodGunsGuitars66 · 1 year ago

  Extremely helpful, thank you!

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  @garysmith8455 · 4 years ago

  I believe I have taken Paul&apos;s advice some time ago. &nbsp;My Martin Logans&apos; bass modules run down in the low 30 Hz. range. &nbsp;Using their matching Dynamo 1600 subwoofer with ARC, it is dialed to come in at 35 Hz. &nbsp;It is silent until there is the hit of a symphonic bass drum, or the lowest notes of the pipe organ. &nbsp;The only thing I need to do now according to Paul&apos;s AND Martin Logan&apos;s suggestion, is signal the subwoofer from the outputs of the Parasound A21 (O:

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