Crossover, speaker alignment, room equalization - what do I start with?

[Lid9497]

Hello wonderful community,

So I have 2.1 system and basically nothing set up, no crossover, no room correction, nothing and I don't know what should be the first thing to fix or do: speaker alignment, or crossover, or first equalize mains and sub separately...what is your first step in REW after connecting and positioning all the speakers? I will first try to fix mains and go from there, but I think maybe speaker alignment should be a first step since I have subwoofer very far away from me.

Thanks

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Welcome to the Forum!

I know this stuff can be intimidating. First, set up the crossover between the mains and sub, time-align the speakers to the sub, then do the EQ and fine-tuning.

Regards,
Wayne

 

[ddude003]

Your speakers frequency response is 45 Hz to 40 kHz, according to Denon...
If your system is primarily for stereo music listening you might set your sub/bass crossover at 45Hz to ~55Hz...
If your system is primarily for AudioVideo you might set your sub/bass crossover at ~80 Hz as suggested by both Dolby and THX...

 

[Lid9497]

Your speakers frequency response is 45 Hz to 40 kHz, according to Denon...
If your system is primarily for stereo music listening you might set your sub/bass crossover at 45Hz to ~55Hz...
If your system is primarily for AudioVideo you might set your sub/bass crossover at ~80 Hz as suggested by both Dolby and THX...

Thanks for the tips, it is audio,video, games, I was using my old subwoofer from Genius 5.1 sound system and I had 80Hz on subwoofer and 65Hz on mains, seemed to work well and boosted some nulls in 60Hz range that subwoofer could not deliver to my LP, tomorrow I will begin experimenting with sub placement and measuring, really excited have to work today

 

[Lid9497]

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