Thank you for your great contribution to society. Just changed the LFE frequency on my Denon from 80 to 120, the difference is truly amazing. Thank you.

Can we get a double-biceps from Hugo at the end?

Would love more detailed videos on bass management. I’ve enjoyed AV receivers for years and haven’t really had them adjusted correctly until your videos. Thank You!

I'm liking the Steven Wilson music on there

Great video for noobs like me. I watched this video about 3 times and it has helped a lot.

That guy reminds me of a miniature LOU FARIGNO

Hi Guys. Thank you for this video. I followed your advice & boy! The difference is palpable. The integration of bass with small set speakers has made listening to my CD collection & DVD'S so much more enjoyable. Cheers!

Clicked for the Steven Wilson album!

I would love for you guys to take this topic to the next level and amp up the detail a bit. Thanks!!!!!

This prompted me to go online to Paradigm to check out the specs of my old Studio 40s and 20s, and based on what I found, to override my Yamaha RX-A1030's YPAO having set them both as Large. After setting all my speakers to Small, I felt the lack of bass from my mains (I only have one sub), so I set my mains back to Large with their bass doubled by the sub - the "Extra Bass" setting, for a 50-80 Hz overlap. Sounds great. If you're using Yamaha's YPAO, go back into Manual after running it to set delay and EQ, and then (1) set it to "YPAO Flat" ("Natural" is a treble rolloff) (2) under Configuration, change the speaker sizes as discussed in this thread, and (3) turn on the test tone and then go into Levels, so you can tweak each speaker's level to sound the same, which is particularly important for the rears in a 7.1 setup, since the YPAO mike doesn't duplicate the pinnae of the ears' attenuation of sounds behind you - making it a good idea to boost the rears a db or two to "subjectively" match the other speaker's volume.

Very helpful video, as always. I ran the audyssey setup and it suggested that I set the cutover for my ceiling atmos speakers to 60Hz, all other speakers were set to 80Hz. I'm going to try setting them all to 80Hz this evening.

This video and all your comment feedback is so helpful. I would love to pick your brain for months. Thank you so much for helping me optimize my equipment to it's maximum potential. I look forward to future tutorials and HT advice.

You guys are great. I learn something new from every video. I didn't realize the AVR could screw up the bass management in channels had different Hz. Good to know. Keep up the good work.

FWIW - Apparently my taste / preference for bass management is different than everyone elses’. I have two SVS PB12+ subs. They’re nice subs and definitely sound better than the huge majority of the subs out there. But even though they’re nice subs, they still sound like subs (which I don’t care for). So I deliberately eq my main speakers to play as low as I can possibly get them to go. I then dial in the subs to fill in the rest of bass region below that. For me, that arrangement sounds better although I know I’m pushing my system amps really hard. It’s not as efficient and it’s hard on the equipment, but I like how it sounds better. It seems cleaner. A draw back to setting it up this way is that the system is more sensitive to the strength of the recorded bass signals and I’m constantly fiddling with the controls.

Good one... I need advanced lessons on it.

Steven Wilson! Nice!!!!!!!!!

This channel is gold. Keep up the good work guys 👍

Love it and would like to hear about auto and manual DSPs for subwoofers

Great video and always good information, You talk about setting and how things should be done, could you do a walk through a receiver menu to show these setting, and what we should be looking for, I know where to set the size of the speakers and delays and so on, but changing the size of the speakers after running the EQ would that not cause things to not sound right? I want to say most of us depend on the MIC to calibrate the speakers,

it really is amazing how having the right settings with even marginal products can sound so much better than the wrong settings on super expensive hi-fi systems. Great topic on bass management, I have a 5.1 set up with (Paradigm Titan v.2) bookshelfs as my fronts, small paradigm cinema's in rear, hand me down pinnacle sub and mis matched Def Tech center. Having the crossover set to 80 hertz and speakers set to small mad a world of difference. Thanks! Side note of future video if possible: Im in a situation where my living room where we watch movies on 5.1 is also my dedicated 2 channel room and system. are there ways without taking out a small mortgage to get better 2 channel audio while maintaining the home theater - you know wife will only allow so much audio in the house...... Thanks and keep up the good videos!

How about for music? Speakers to small and crossover to 80? Have a set BW 805's

Thx for the awesome advice guys and love the new set-up. "Engage!". Can you please explain exactly what system headroom means and how it can affect the experience for the listener?

I have a sound system with audio lip sync correction and it works. The audio is early and i delay it but when i use it for PC gaming however its the opposite the audio i already late... Too late and the sync correction just delays it more than it already is.

I have been fighting this for a long time with my setup... I wanted to add that if you have bass reflex front. It really helps to set them to small and placement of those fronts becomes a heck of lot easier. That being said my subs are Boston acoustics micro90pv I use two of them. I think my next upgrade should be a better pair of subs where I can more fine tune with (phase ectra) It becomes super tricky when you want to get 2.0 aside from your 7.1. Quality. I figured out after experimenting what not that you have to compromise on one of them . I use Boston acoustics Lynnfield vr40,vr12,vr20 rears and the vrsPro di poles in my setup.

I have a 5.1 setup, and using JBL 4311s as my mains. My system sounds much better with the setting to large.

so I have 2 tower speakers with an 8" sub and 10" sub on each and I can't figure out how to get the bass out of them because I had them in the car and they did great with the amp.

I notice my receiver always sets my speakers to large and turns on "extra bass" when I do a mic calibration. I always set it to small afterwards, but I feel like the average user wouldn't know that they should probably change that.

curious about crossover settings for ceiling speakers for atmos.

Can someone help me out? I have a 5.0 Jamo HCS system..getting a sub later. Onkyo NR545 avr. I set the mains to full range..everything else is at 120hz. Toggled the option to no subwoofer. Bass heavy scenes in movies are making my towers sound like crap..like its a really muddy loud sound. How do I correct this issue?

What if you have an older subwoofer that only has a left and right input?? Should I go left and right out of the receiver to connect or still use the LFE output?

Is it odd that I lose a lot of detail in the sound when I set my ELAC B6 Debuts at 80Hz crossover? I found that 90Hz is the sweet spot for them. 70Hz lost significant mids, while 100Hz sounded muddy. Is there an explanation for this? Right now I have F: 90Hz, S: 80Hz, C: 80Hz Sub: 120Hz. I'm just baffled by why that is happening with my ELACs. Would love your input if you ever have time. Thanks! Great videos as always.

Your channel never talks about pioneer avrs

I’m confused why you would set LFE to 120 and sub to 80. Wouldn’t setting sub at 80 counteract setting LFE TO 120?

Hello. I first found you guys while doing a search on Yahoo! for 'pc entertainment experience' then after comming across you found your link on your website to KZfaq. I'm having.. not problems.. but just not optimal performance from my 3 piece speaker system I have hooked up to my laptop via a headphone jack cable.. meaning ALL 3 speaks (sub woofer is that 3rd piece, no center channel speaker) are connected to my Toshiba laptop via one tiny headphone cable. I believe it's a 2.5mm headphone jack on my laptop. OK. Here comes story time. I had the problem of my bass working at first during a recent Windows 8.1 (full version 64 bit) install, BUT then NOT working right after I installed the Realtek HD audio driver. I somehow thought and assumed for over a week or so now, that I could not uninstall an audio driver like I could most any program because maybe it's part of the operating system. Well, guess what I did today? Just 30 mins ago or so, I found Realtek when going to Control Panel and then clicking on 'Uninstall a program' link. OK. So, after that, I tested out these same 3 piece CA speakers and it worked! Only after I got rid of Realtek did my bass and subwoofer function come back. So, check this out. What I have installed right now is Toshiba audio enhancement, DTS Inc/DTS Studio Sound., and that's it just those 2. What I have now is excellent for the lows (couldn't be better!) but not quite as good for the high frequency notes/sounds as having that Realtek installed. So, it has been a trade off. My ? is: is there a driver download that I can get from Dolby, THX, Conexant, or anyone else to have the best of both worlds and keep my subwoofer function while at the same time having that HD audio sound quality for the highs!?

Super newbie here! I have a Denon X3600h with Klipsch 7.1 System. Best crossover setting ? RP-8000F - pair RP-600M - pair RP-502S - pair SPL-120 - 1

Hi. What an excellent start to a series of videos! Thanks guys-really appreciated and long may it continue! I'm running a 4 tower surround system full range, but currently without a sub or center channel due to space limitations. I may wrongly be considering my towers as large bass speakers as the bass drivers are six inches (All speakers are Tannoy Sixes 611 Mark 2) I'm unsure if: 1. running the surrounds as small will facilitate better bass from the mains than I'm already hearing. Currently the mains and surrounds are set to large as each sub in each tower is 6 inches and produces good detail. I can switch this over to small easily on the yamaha RX V777 to experiment with levels. However, this is my main query... 2. Should I favour bi-amping instead of going for a (or pair of) sub(s). Although I have some floor space, sub placement may possibly end up being impractical for better results than bi-amping. If yes, I'm interested in running as horizontal bi-amp set up of independent level controls from the amps if possible to adjust bass on the av volume and mid and treble on the second amp. Or is this dumb and I should go a more conventional route of mains on the av amp and second amp to surrounds (or vice versa). Thanks in advance. 'Need more power cap'n!!'

I've tried setting my crossovers on 80hz numerous time, and it seems to take away some of the kick drum punch when I'm listening to music. Ninety hertz seems to work much better. The extra 10hz above 80hz going to my HSU VTF15H subwoofer adds a nice punch to the kick drums.

thanks guys very helpful

I had Marantz SR6007, when the audyssey calibrated, my back surround were auto set to 150, Front Height were auto set to 200, front were set to 40 and center to 40 too. Should I set the Front Height and Back Surround to 80 and my front and center to 60?

Hey i have a problem when my sound system connected to PC the audio is late even with the a/v sync feature is off. Usualy the audio is earlier with my other devices like blu ray player and consoles.

Thanks, actually this video helped me

What do you do if you are listening to two channel audio with 2 tower speakers?

I have a Pioneer VSX-1131 receiver and was wondering the best way to connect it to my Definitive Technology subwoofer inputs? Should I go direct to the LFE input? Or use a Y connector to the L/R inputs on the sub? The receiver has 2 single sub outputs, but no L/R outputs for the sub.

Hi I have kliptch FP 280F towers and FP 450c centre should I set them to small.???????

Great stuff guys. So I have a bit of a Frankenstein set up in my home theatre. One thing I've been doing is passing the R/L front signals from my receiver through the dual JBL 10" subwoofers to the Infinity Primus P252 towers that I have. So now my right and lefts have a lot more bass. Should I still set my speakers to small at this point? Or are they considered Large, since I'm passing the signal through the subs. (I'm doing this per right and left, so it's still stereo) The actual LFE outs on my Denon go to a third sub behind the couch and a bass shaker installed in the couch itself.

About bass you said eq it out so what does that mean.

guys regarding this video, whats your opinion about my setup everything is setup to large by my aventage YPAO my DIY front speakers are CAD Designed and turned to 25hz my DIY center channel haves dual inch woofers my surrounds are vintage brazilian hi fi gradiente gr 15 with 15 woofer and surround back polk audio r300 and im using pre out of my avenge to and older yamaha rx-495 just for the front and back and my DIY sub its a jl audio cone 12w0 turned to 30 hz everything except polk audio its 3 way

This video was great, but I have a question regarding crossover settings; Do you think it would be okay to set the crossover for the center channel lower (80Hz) than left/right front (100Hz)? I am planning on buying new speakers and recommended frequency range for left and right is 100Hz-20kHz (Speaker: Triangle Esprit Heyda ez) Recommended frequency range for the center channel is 60Hz-20kHz (Speaker: Triangle Esprit Voce ez) Receiver is Yamaha RX-a850 which I believe has the option to set crossover individually for each channel..? Any suggestion is welcome! Thanks

One question. i've read from certain sources, the low pass crossover, it's recommend to set with 10 hz above the lower crossover of the main speakers? instead to set with the maximum LFE value which is 120hz.... what do you can tell about it?

what about 2 knobs behind subwoofer. what do u recommend

hello would you consider Paradigm studio 11.4 setting speakers on small i am running yamaha rx-z11 with 11.4 paradigm studio v5

Would you run a Klipsch RF7ii on small as well? I have a set of those, a l. RC64ii and paradigm PW2200

Hey folks, I just wanted to hear if you could clarify you said that the LFE should be set to 120 Hz but was that only if you had the option to adjust the sub and LFE independently? If you, as it seems to me are unable to do that, should it then be set to 80 hz as the rest of the speakers? Also I'd like your take on my front speakers, i have a pair of AudioVector C2, should i still set those to 80 Hz?

I've been eyeballing the Yamaha S-501 integrated because it seems simple and highly rated (I prefer 2.0/2.1). It has a subwoofer out via LFE but I'm not sure it has the same bass management as the more complicated AV receivers. Is this just a matter of playing with the crossover on the sub and the manual EQ settings? Love the videos!

But isn't it true that by setting your large front tower speakers to "small" you're actually going to lose a frequency range? For example, with the powered subs set to say, 80 Hz and below and the tower woofers set to "small"...the towers with the woofers are no longer outputting sound to cover frequencies above 80 Hz. The tweeters and midrange drivers are certainly not going to cover that range either, so you'd be missing the upper low-end spectrum of sound by using "small" setting for front towers. If I'm wrong, please enlighten me.

great video, thanks for your tutorials. im a newbie on being "technical" on home theater system. so after setting my AVR's setting to small speakers and have my AVR's LFE to 120hz, should i set my subwoofer crossover control to 120Hz too?

Good intro to bass mgt. I set this up in my Marantz 7701 pre/pro and Oppo 105, and movies sound fantastic! I use the Marantz bass mgt. for my cable/sat, and the Oppo for Blu-Ray. However, for 2 channel CD or vinyl listening, the JL3112 sub does not engage. What am I doing wrong.

What about using Audyssey to set it automatically? I'm using that on my SR 7009 for 7.1.2 with dual sub. For 2 channel I set it manually to x-over at 40hz.

Its actually frustrating that I have to pay triple the price to all the good subwoofers where I live,but I could get speakers for similar price or even lower

There is a setting I am unfamiliar with on my Yamaha...Crossover. Currently at 60Hz...what does this do and at what frequency? I am familiar with everything else.

Hey Gene, if you had to guess what % of an amps power goes to producing signals lower than 100hz? I bought a pair of ELAC B5s which are pretty low in sensitivity (85) and are 6ohm rated to boot. However, I'm using a system wide 100hz x-over (PSA XV15 sub) on my Denon X3200. I had to raise the speaker trim levels to +7.5 (5db more compared to the speakers they replaced) and I'm just a bit worried that I'm asking too much out of the X3200........... I must say that I've heard no issues at -5db MV on scenes like the pod emergence scene in WOTW. What say you on me "overtaxing" my X3200's amp even though I use the 100hz x-over?

Hey Guys, thanks for the video! I have a question, I have Def Techs 8060 towers and a cs9080 center. Should I still set these to small? Thanks for the tips!

Hello Mister Jim (Audioholics) !I have one simple question at you !A bought an Denon avr-x 550 BT receiver and i use it in stereo mode (without subwoofer) with a Wharfedale Diamond 225 bookshelf speakers, and i don't know to set up properly the all things ! The speakers i understand that to set to "small" , but i don't know how to set the LFE setting for best result on bass range ! Before this receiver, i had a Technics stereo amplifier and this have alot more bass response than this receiver !The Denon had 70W per channel in 8 ohms (stereo mode) ! Thats alot for a bookshelf speaker, but the bass response is nowhere near what i had in Technics stereo amp, even with balance set to + 6 db (on bass) ! Is there a chance to modify something in the menu to have similar bass performance on this Denon receiver ?Thank's in advance and sorry for my bad english !

I have a pair of Def Tech StudioMonitor 45's but no subwoofer. Should I still set those speakers to small or let them play the entire frequency band? I'm just worried that if I set the crossover too high I'll miss out on a lot of the lower bass frequencies.

If my main l/r speakers are truly full range (tekton seas pendragons) frequency response is 30hz-30khz. Can I set the front mains to full range instead of small. Then cross over the sub at 80 or lower to 50 hz. Also if I do this and it works then should I place my sub to the rear of the room, away from the mains to get a better bass response in the room.

I'm confused. Are you saying the receiver's crossover frequency from the front speakers to the sub should be set at 120 or 80? I assume, then, that the sub's low pass setting should be the same as whatever the receiver's crossover frequency is, right? (it's a 2.1)

Hey Gene, I have my Klipsch sub connected to a y splitter. My question is, is it better to connect the sub through the LFE line and set it up through the receiver?

I'm in a condo and can't really have a huge sub so i'm running 5.0 with PSB image series. Should I set my towers to large as I dont want to cut my base completely.

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Great great video guys! Thank you! :D

whats lfe + main ?

So you are saying Odyssey is wrong on my Denon x4100, what does USC boys say about that ?

If I set my LFE to 120 on the denon, should I also set the crossover knob on my sub to 120 too? Thanks

What are your thoughts on bass management for a tower that has built in subs? I've heard varying responses about whether to set to large or small. I have DefTech 8060's powered by a Denon x5200. Thanks for the help.

How does this work in speakers that have powered subs, such as the Definitive Technology Mythos ST-L's? Would I be better off using the dedicated Lfe input on the speakers or running the LFE to separate subs?

Don't make Hugo mad. You wouldn't like him when he's mad.

what is recommended Hz for my powered subs?

The Status Acoustics Titus would be a large, right? I don't have any need for a separate sub in my set up since they have 6 10" woofers per side.

What if my speakers has dual 15 inch woofers

For the love of god, please get rid of the "Today I'm here with" part, it is cringe worthy. Couldn't it just be: Gene: I'm Gene DellaSala, President of Audioholics Hugo: "And I'm Hugo Rivera, Vice President of Marketing Then you could continue on with the piece.

Agregen subtitulos en español =(

Can you help me understand the advantage of setting the LFE crossover to 120, while setting the speaker crossovers to 80? My (uninformed) intuition would be that this would result in more output in the range of 80-120 Hz, since both the mains and the subs would be overlapping in this range? What is the advantage of this over setting both crossovers to 80?

120 Hz = Truth

Heres the link to all the details of my Audio problem www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2689061/audio-delay-games.html#xtor=EPR-8809

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but I don't have a subwoofer.

Is your bass going to pump me up, or is that what the roids do?

Audioholics recording with the worst microphone possible.