So I read somewhere that if you have large speakers in the front, the "rule" is to leave the setting at small on your reciever. Is this true? Why? Where can I read up on this? As for LFE, is the the lower the hz setting the lower or boomie the bass and the higher the more punch or thud? Provided that the audio being sent is one or the other. Once I know how that works I can try to get the perfect settings. LFE in off mode, thoughts?

M

Very few speakers will output bass at levels and frequencies that a subwoofer can reproduce.  By setting the speaker to small it allows the subwoofer to take care of the bass and will allow the receiver to amplify signals that are easier to amplify and require less power from it.

80Hz is usually the recommended subwoofer setting, although slightly lower or higher than that might work better depending on your room, your other speakers, etc.

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The only rule in audio is.... "how it sounds to you" you will hear and see this any where and everywhere you read when it comes to audio. As was stated earlier THX standard is to crossover at 80 Hz this takes a load of the reciever and allows it to feed a more steady output to your mains and others speakers. The lower the Hz the lower the sound, the higher the HZ the higher the frequency is. In my experience and depending on the sub you have anything about 100HZ tends to be too much for your sub to handle, this is preference and size of the sub. I have a smaller sub (10 in sunfire) connected to my speaker line level to handle everything from 70 Hz -120Hz in connection with my mains and a much larger SVS Pb 13 Ultra connected to LFE to Handle 80Hz - 10Hz.

Why HardOn?  With rf-5's why would you need a sub to take on 70 to 120hz?  I'm sure I'm missing something here, but it's late, so fill me in?

oldtimer:

Why HardOn?  With rf-5's why would you need a sub to take on 70 to 120hz?  I'm sure I'm missing something here, but it's late, so fill me in?

It looks like he has 2 subs.  The smaller one to play 70 to 120 in addition to his mains covering the same frequency.  The larger sub takes care of the real low stuff if I'm reading it correctly.

Oldtimer, CECAA is correct. I have 2 subs handling different frequencies, 1 sub for LFE and the sunfire HRS 10 in addition to my mains. I get poor bass response out of my room at low levels so it's almost as if the RF 5s don't give out any bass at all. So I use the HRS to help attenuate the higher bass frequencies to help balance the room out. I'm in the process of treating the room just trying to keep up the WAF and not going over board as we will be moving soon.

Thanks.  I understood that you had two subs, my question was why, and you answered that.  Interesting.