Hello,
I've been using Audiolense for a few years now with great success and have v6.7 installed currently. My setup up to this point has been pretty basic with a 2 Channel configuration with 2 Subs running in Stereo. I've been considering strongly adding either one or two more Subs to the current setup but before going down that path I would like to better understand the "Speaker Setup" of how this would work with Audiolense.
A basic rundown of my current gear is as follows:
Merging Hapi 8ch DA Converter
Pass Labs Mono Blocks
Magico S3 Towers
2 x Rythmik E15HP2 - SE Subs
Roon for Playback/Convolution/DSP Vol Control
Below is what my current Audiolense Speaker Setup Tabs look like for the setup above:
I've been reading thru the various Forum posts here and seeing some impressive and complex configurations being used with Audiolense so I have no doubt what I want to do is achievable but before making any additional equipment purchases I would like to have a good understanding of what my future state Speaker Setup options are when adding a 3rd or 4th additional Sub to the equation. Thus far I have found that using Subs in a Stereo configuration seem to sound better to these ears having tried a Mono Sub configuration in the past but I'm not married to such a configuration if things need to change in order to make this work.
Below is mock future state Speaker Setup I have been playing with inside Audiolense for a 4 Stereo Sub configration but am not sure if this will do what I want or not so any help folks here can provide would be appreciated:
4 Stereo Sub Configuration
With the future state configuration posted above my plan would be to have two Subs on the Left side of the Room and two Subs on the Right side of the room to maintain a typical Stereo layout. As best I can tell with the mock up configuration shown the two new Subs would receive the same signal feed that the existing two Stereo Subs receive but am not 100% sure?
With the new setup I am unable to configure a Low Pass x-over value on the x-over Tab but my assumption is that they will just inherit the Bass Routing value set on the first Speakers Tab since the Channel ID's are the same for both pairs of Subs?
So thus far I have been talking about using 4 Subs in a proposed Stereo configuration. The next example will show another mock configuration I have been playing with using 3 Mono Subs (I think). I believe this would result in a Mono Sub configuration because I have set the "Speakers" Tab configuration to "Route Bass to All Subs" but the part I'm a bit unsure of is the layout seen on the "Playback Format Channel Routing Tab". I've not been able to find any good explanations on how this Tab works in the documentation for Audiolense. In my example shown below I've been going on the assumption that a value of "1.00" means 100% of the signal for a given channel. So based on that my thought is that by configuring a value of ".50" means that half of the signal received by that particular Sub will come from the Left Channel and the other ".50" or Half of the signal received will come from the Right Channel resulting in a Summed Mono Sub? Also seen in the example below on the same Tab are the other two Subs which are set to a value of "1.00" each (one for Left and one for Right Channels). This would suggest that those two Subs might still be considered Stereo since the signal they receive only comes from either the Right or Left Channels exclusively. But again I am not sure?
3 Sub Configuration
My appologies in advance for this long winded post but hopefully someone can shed some light on my questions and confirm or debunk my assumptions with the two proposed new configurations.
Thank you
I've been using Audiolense for a few years now with great success and have v6.7 installed currently. My setup up to this point has been pretty basic with a 2 Channel configuration with 2 Subs running in Stereo. I've been considering strongly adding either one or two more Subs to the current setup but before going down that path I would like to better understand the "Speaker Setup" of how this would work with Audiolense.
A basic rundown of my current gear is as follows:
Merging Hapi 8ch DA Converter
Pass Labs Mono Blocks
Magico S3 Towers
2 x Rythmik E15HP2 - SE Subs
Roon for Playback/Convolution/DSP Vol Control
Below is what my current Audiolense Speaker Setup Tabs look like for the setup above:
I've been reading thru the various Forum posts here and seeing some impressive and complex configurations being used with Audiolense so I have no doubt what I want to do is achievable but before making any additional equipment purchases I would like to have a good understanding of what my future state Speaker Setup options are when adding a 3rd or 4th additional Sub to the equation. Thus far I have found that using Subs in a Stereo configuration seem to sound better to these ears having tried a Mono Sub configuration in the past but I'm not married to such a configuration if things need to change in order to make this work.
Below is mock future state Speaker Setup I have been playing with inside Audiolense for a 4 Stereo Sub configration but am not sure if this will do what I want or not so any help folks here can provide would be appreciated:
4 Stereo Sub Configuration
With the future state configuration posted above my plan would be to have two Subs on the Left side of the Room and two Subs on the Right side of the room to maintain a typical Stereo layout. As best I can tell with the mock up configuration shown the two new Subs would receive the same signal feed that the existing two Stereo Subs receive but am not 100% sure?
With the new setup I am unable to configure a Low Pass x-over value on the x-over Tab but my assumption is that they will just inherit the Bass Routing value set on the first Speakers Tab since the Channel ID's are the same for both pairs of Subs?
So thus far I have been talking about using 4 Subs in a proposed Stereo configuration. The next example will show another mock configuration I have been playing with using 3 Mono Subs (I think). I believe this would result in a Mono Sub configuration because I have set the "Speakers" Tab configuration to "Route Bass to All Subs" but the part I'm a bit unsure of is the layout seen on the "Playback Format Channel Routing Tab". I've not been able to find any good explanations on how this Tab works in the documentation for Audiolense. In my example shown below I've been going on the assumption that a value of "1.00" means 100% of the signal for a given channel. So based on that my thought is that by configuring a value of ".50" means that half of the signal received by that particular Sub will come from the Left Channel and the other ".50" or Half of the signal received will come from the Right Channel resulting in a Summed Mono Sub? Also seen in the example below on the same Tab are the other two Subs which are set to a value of "1.00" each (one for Left and one for Right Channels). This would suggest that those two Subs might still be considered Stereo since the signal they receive only comes from either the Right or Left Channels exclusively. But again I am not sure?
3 Sub Configuration
My appologies in advance for this long winded post but hopefully someone can shed some light on my questions and confirm or debunk my assumptions with the two proposed new configurations.
Thank you