Hi there... I've been running a pair of Klipsch RF-3 Towers for afew years as my mains, recently added a used RC-3II as center (used) and a pair of tin cans for rears... (not that bad really, just not worth the details)...
the RF-3's are spec'd to roll off at 37Hz, which is supported by my scans in REW... I'm now thinking of adding a sub to extend down for movies, and perhaps add backup even in music... music is and has always been the primary goal of my setup, but movies are gaining traction...
I'm aware of the "normal" 80 Hz crossover between mains and sub, but I would rather use my RF-3's to their fullest extent, and only use the sub to fill in where necessary...especially important in music, in my opinion, not to mention I spend the money on the towers, why use them as monitors? at any rate...
The issue becomes, my AVR, once the setting of the fronts is moved from large to small, only allows a cutoff as low as 60 Hz, more than half an octave above where my fronts are usable down to... so I'm looking for ideas...
One I've come across is leaving the sub set to off in the AVR and the fronts set to Large, and pulling the preamp out from the AVR as my sub signal, and using the crossover in the sub to limit it to lower than 37Hz... this sounds like a good idea, except I'm afaid that certain scenes could overdrive the fronts, as I already hear what I think is them flapping (yes, I turned it down right away...)...
So then I thought I could turn down the LFE mix on the receiver to a point where the fronts are safe, and turn up the gain on the sub... what does everyone think of this?
Obviously another option is to connect the sub to the sub output, and leave the fronts as large, but as I understand it, then the whole LFE could be pumped into the fronts, which doesn't do me much good...
Help?
the RF-3's are spec'd to roll off at 37Hz, which is supported by my scans in REW... I'm now thinking of adding a sub to extend down for movies, and perhaps add backup even in music... music is and has always been the primary goal of my setup, but movies are gaining traction...
I'm aware of the "normal" 80 Hz crossover between mains and sub, but I would rather use my RF-3's to their fullest extent, and only use the sub to fill in where necessary...especially important in music, in my opinion, not to mention I spend the money on the towers, why use them as monitors? at any rate...
The issue becomes, my AVR, once the setting of the fronts is moved from large to small, only allows a cutoff as low as 60 Hz, more than half an octave above where my fronts are usable down to... so I'm looking for ideas...
One I've come across is leaving the sub set to off in the AVR and the fronts set to Large, and pulling the preamp out from the AVR as my sub signal, and using the crossover in the sub to limit it to lower than 37Hz... this sounds like a good idea, except I'm afaid that certain scenes could overdrive the fronts, as I already hear what I think is them flapping (yes, I turned it down right away...)...
So then I thought I could turn down the LFE mix on the receiver to a point where the fronts are safe, and turn up the gain on the sub... what does everyone think of this?
Obviously another option is to connect the sub to the sub output, and leave the fronts as large, but as I understand it, then the whole LFE could be pumped into the fronts, which doesn't do me much good...
Help?