Hey, home audio experts...frequency question

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

The receiver is a Sony 6.1 with seperate settings for speaker size. I have them set to large for now for left right and center.

The speakers do have seperate woofers and tweeters with a crossover and passive radiator....so if I'm reading it right everything should be seperated.

Well, maybe Avatard might be a better choice for advice but do the speakers have separate inputs for different frequencies? I agree with AMJ that the settings are mostly dependent on your taste, room size, etc and there aren't necessarily perfect settings. Imho speaker placement is key in surround sound and then you set the spl levels and delay times. Some of the Sonys come with a small microphone that you place at the optimum listening position (where YOU sit, haha!) and the unit runs several sound tests to optimize the levels at that spot. If you don't have that and are really serious, you can get a sound pressure level (spl) meter and run through the test program manually to equalize the volume of each speaker at your location. As far as delay goes, you just do the math. I can't remember but 1 ms = 1 foot or something, it's been a while, sorry.

Anyway, here's an example of what I mean about the speakers.



If you don't have separate inputs, it's pointless to worry about separating the mids and highs from the lows. Btw do you have a powered sub woofer? If you do not, put the computer down and go directly to the closest audio store!