Got an idea, and have a question for BFD users

[clausdk]

Hi.

Having succesfully used the Behringer DSP 1124 on my PB12+ sub and being so impressed with the results I was beginning to wonder if it is adviseble to also use a Behringer on the main speakers?

Challenge:

Moving into a new house and I am possibly buying Vienna Acoustics Strauss main speakers. They sport 10" woofers and can play fairly deep. However I will have little or no control over that bass, since my AV reciever has poor built in EQ. It's a pioneer AX2. Seing as they can play fairly deep it's my plan to crossover at around 40-50hz. I can use my current Behringer to reduce peaks then from 50hz down, which is all good, but then I'm left with no bass control from 50 hz and up....

So I thought, what about adding a second Behringer! I use my pioneer reciever as pre amp only since I recently bought a Primare A30.5 power amp. I could then plug in another Behringer between the pre out on the pioneer and the power amp.

Is this a good plan or should I go a different route?

/claus

[brucek]

Is this a good plan

You are subjecting the mains signal to a conversion from analog to digital, through a DSP, phase changes from filtering, and then from digital back to analog. All this to control a very narrow bandwidth of bass. Do you think it's worth it? Will the signal to noise, dynamic range, and soundstage be better or worse after the conversion? (remember, this is a hundred dollar device you're passing your pristine mains signal through).

brucek

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Hi Claus,

Moving into a new house and I am possibly buying Vienna Acoustics Strauss main speakers. They sport 10" woofers and can play fairly deep.

We see this quite a bit, folks with highly-capable mains who feel their speaker’s capabilities are somehow going to waste if they don’t utilize every last Hz of extension.

In actuality, you’ll get better overall sound quality if you just use the receiver’s crossover and hand off the bass to a subwoofer at the usual 80-90 Hz. This gives you full control of the bass frequencies, as far as equalizing goes.

Regards,
Wayne

[clausdk]

Ok thanks for the input so far.

At any rate, I'm going to test it out once I move into the house. Using different crossovers and measure with REW - it's going to be loads of fun

I'll just use my current Behringer on the PB12+, which so far has proven very good.

[stephenb1]

Hi
what about modifing the speakers so the 10" woofers have their own amp,
this will produce better control and power and then a bfd wont affect the overall sound too much while being equalised.

I have three ways and while the extra sub bass is welcomed it can bit a little too much will all the extra bass from the main subs when loud.

Why not try a dcx2496 if its as clean sounding as the bfd, it should be a good help with auto phase alignment, delay and parametric eq 's.

Mines on order looking forward to it arriving.

[clausdk]

I have a pretty decent seperate power amp for the mains, which I'll use. Once I move into the new house, I'll do some measurements, and I'll surely remember to post'em here!