Greetings, Gentlemen
Here is an outline of my gear:
Left/Right Speakers: High Emotion* line array towers, model 18, 3 way. Tri amped through High Emotion Audio active XO-3. Woofers are XO-3 integrated LMSUs. They are coupled to the towers and crossed at 100/120Hz at 12dB per octave roll off. Hence the system cannot use the woofers for bass management for other channels. All speakers are required to handle their own bass loads.
Powered by two Hypex 400 UCD stereo chassis (mids/highs) and a Crown MarcoTech 5002 (woofers)
Rears are Klipsch KLF-30s, powered by a Van Alstine: Model Three
Processor: NAD T-163
Here is my dilemma. There is no center channel available that can match my L/R speakers without detaching their woofers from my XO-3 and allocating bass for all speakers to tem with the NAD’s bass management. Which seems to suck, btw. This would mean a complete rewire of the system and would necessitate rewiring every time I want to use the stereo system to its fullest potential because the XO-3 is a purpose built crossover for the 3-way stereo system.
Right now the center channel is set to off (phantom) and the system sounds good. I’ve tried inserting a center channel without bass management and as expected it sucks. I could wire the system for bass management and see how it sounds, but like I said that would mean I switching the leads to my woofers from the NAD’s sub output two my XO-3’s LF output every time I want to listen to music. Also, the XO-3 would do its own HP filter of my towers at 100/120 Hz, so I would be limited in my bass management selection at the NAD as it pertains to the center and rear channels in order to maintain consistency with the left and right channels. Do you have a head ache yet?
The simple solution has always been phantom, but I’m at an impasse. I want to upgrade to a processor that decodes DTS-HD and True HD faithfully. I guess my question is, since I know I’m likely to stick with phantom, how do I research which processor will do the best job?
Here’s a pic of the system. I’m open to suggestions about how to deal with this predicament.
Thank you, Gentlemen
Pat
Here is an outline of my gear:
Left/Right Speakers: High Emotion* line array towers, model 18, 3 way. Tri amped through High Emotion Audio active XO-3. Woofers are XO-3 integrated LMSUs. They are coupled to the towers and crossed at 100/120Hz at 12dB per octave roll off. Hence the system cannot use the woofers for bass management for other channels. All speakers are required to handle their own bass loads.
Powered by two Hypex 400 UCD stereo chassis (mids/highs) and a Crown MarcoTech 5002 (woofers)
Rears are Klipsch KLF-30s, powered by a Van Alstine: Model Three
Processor: NAD T-163
Here is my dilemma. There is no center channel available that can match my L/R speakers without detaching their woofers from my XO-3 and allocating bass for all speakers to tem with the NAD’s bass management. Which seems to suck, btw. This would mean a complete rewire of the system and would necessitate rewiring every time I want to use the stereo system to its fullest potential because the XO-3 is a purpose built crossover for the 3-way stereo system.
Right now the center channel is set to off (phantom) and the system sounds good. I’ve tried inserting a center channel without bass management and as expected it sucks. I could wire the system for bass management and see how it sounds, but like I said that would mean I switching the leads to my woofers from the NAD’s sub output two my XO-3’s LF output every time I want to listen to music. Also, the XO-3 would do its own HP filter of my towers at 100/120 Hz, so I would be limited in my bass management selection at the NAD as it pertains to the center and rear channels in order to maintain consistency with the left and right channels. Do you have a head ache yet?
The simple solution has always been phantom, but I’m at an impasse. I want to upgrade to a processor that decodes DTS-HD and True HD faithfully. I guess my question is, since I know I’m likely to stick with phantom, how do I research which processor will do the best job?
Here’s a pic of the system. I’m open to suggestions about how to deal with this predicament.
Thank you, Gentlemen
Pat