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bass from surrounds?

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baconmaster

Discussion Starter · May 6, 2006

i was wondering if there is any way that i can get my surround speakers to play bass and the same material as the fronts? my reciever is the yamaha htr-5930

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DMF

· #2 · May 7, 2006

You can throw all the bass you want at surround speakers, but very few will be able to reproduce it.

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LarryChanin

· #3 · May 7, 2006

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Originally Posted by baconmaster
i was wondering if there is any way that i can get my surround speakers to play bass and the same material as the fronts? my reciever is the yamaha htr-5930

Hi,

Here's a photo showing how I did it.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res8ycu4/s...s/DSCN0291.jpg

I use Polk Audio f/x500i speakers for my side surrounds. They are set for dipole operation. These speakers are concealed inside columns. Also concealed in the columns are compact subwoofers. The full range side surround signal is sent to the subwoofers and to external crossovers where the bass below 80 hz is filtered from the Polk dipoles. The net result is full range surround channels.

I'm not sure what you mean by "and the same material as the fronts". You can certainly redirect the low bass from your mains to your surrounds by setting the mains as small and setting the surrounds as large. Most receivers would send the bass below the main's crossover setting to the large speakers. As for sending the rest of the front speakers' signal to the surrounds, why would you want to do that?

Larry

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baconmaster

Discussion Starter · #4 · May 8, 2006

the only reason i would want to do that is to get as much volume as possible. for the rare instances where that would be needed, not for dts or dolby digital movies or anything, just for cranking music. might sound noobish i know.

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LarryChanin

· #5 · May 8, 2006

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Originally Posted by baconmaster
the only reason i would want to do that is to get as much volume as possible. for the rare instances where that would be needed, not for dts or dolby digital movies or anything, just for cranking music. might sound noobish i know.

No insult intended, but yes it does. It sounds like a lot of unnecessary trouble and expense just to play loud, two-channel music. If you are intent on squeezing an extra 3 dB or so of volume from your existing system, perhaps it would be feasible on those rare instances simply to reposition your main speakers closer to the "sweet spot"

Larry

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hometheaterguy

· #6 · May 8, 2006

Deep bass is outputted from surrounds when "Bass Management" is turn on and a subwoofer is implemented in mono. Even a single sub placed right can make all 5 or 7 satellite speakers sound like they have 18" compression drivers in their cabinet. Do a search on Bass Management. It was developed to allow less distortion on the satellites and to eliminate the need for using 5 refrigerator sized speakers and thus kill potentially drastic and wild varying standing waves

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kirknelson

· #7 · May 9, 2006

What he said ^^

Also, multiple bass sources will result in cancellation. You'd be better off just using a sub and setting the rest of your speakers to small. That's what most of us do.

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