thatMikeguy;163540 Wrote: > Yeah sorry I had a solution for the Bryston already (exactly what you > said). However, the new Totem speakers are a few months away and hence > the AV8 must do for now. Is there a way without putting the signal > through the sub?? That must degrade the sound. > Cheers, > Mike.
Yeah, it would somewhat - you'd be sending it through a crossover. If you send XLR to the amp/speakers and RCA to the sub, you'd get other issues: when bass is reproduced from both speakers and a sub, you will get standing waves in the room and zones of constructive interference (boominess) and destructive interference (muted bass). These zones move around with different bass frequencies - you're almost sure to find a frequency where your listening position is right in one of these interference zones. You can compensate for this a little bit if the sub can adjust phase. But you end up moving around the zones to other places at other frequencies. Of course, you may stumble on a setting that's pleasing with most music you listen to, but the possibility for problems is there. You're also wasting amp power by amplifying bass for the speakers that you really want to reproduce in the sub. Bass requires a lot of power so it's fairly significant. Also, many speakers don't reproduce low bass really well. If they attempt it, they may extend the speaker cone without producing audible bass, which will distort any higher frequencies coming through that driver as well (multiple drivers crossed over at appropriate frequencies minimizes this, of course). -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30755 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
