My subwoofer arrived today.💥
DAMN this thing brings it for only a 10" driver. And of course the whole system sounds better because of the crossover and fresh room measurement / correction.
VERY happy customer over here. Phenomenal performance for the price.
https://www.audioholics.com/subwoofer-reviews/rsl-10s-mkii
What freq. are you using for crossover ?
@corlin
I actually don't know! I'm running the sub in LFE Direct mode which bypasses its crossover, and I used the Audyssey room measurement and correction routine in my Denon receiver. It doesn't let you see the crossover frequency after it does its thing. You can only see the crossover point if you configure one manually.
@corlin
I suspect it's on the lower side - I believe 80 Hz is the lowest the receiver lets you set manually and I think it chose something close to it. Despite these old bookshelf speakers being quite cheap (and the company out of business), I've measured their in-room response with a spectrum analyzer and seen decent response down to the mid-40s.
https://www.goodsound.com/equipment/athena_asb2_2.htm
@corlin
I misspoke earlier. You CAN see the crossover frequency, but it was buried. After listening some more tonight, I decided something wasn't quite right. Sure enough, the software had set the crossover point at 40 Hz, which is far too low for these bookshelf speakers. I re-ran Audyssey and it set that same crossover. So I found that if you go into manual setup you can keep the room correction eq, but override things like speaker distances and crossover.
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@corlin
The next two settings were 60 and 80 Hz. I did a lot of listening back and forth between 40, 60, and 80 and eventually settled on 60. Much more authority to the system then when set at 40 as you would expect, and 80 makes things a bit more congested.
Never trust an auto setup on its own! I'm willing to bet the newer and more advanced version of this software can set crossover frequencies more precisely than every 20 Hz.
@voltronic
Ya 40Hz is too low even for a good floor standing 3-way.
And yes room correction is hard, even with the expense gear.
60Hz sounds about right maybe a small bit higher, depending to the rest of the system.
You hear what you hear. Any measuring system is just a starting point.