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How to set center speakers

Am running the new Mac MX 135/MC 207. am planning on running a set of Oddyseys for R/L, a Theater i for center channel, and shamefully an M&K 350 THX for the sub.

Dolby labs will tell you to use the exact same speaker for all of the front three. Am curious if there is any way to configure the electronics such that bass below 80hz is only sent for the center and rear channels? If I am reading the tech data right, it's an all or nothing (i.e. if any of the front speakers is chosen as small all bass effects below (150hz or as specified) are sent to the sub.

Appreciate your comments/suggestions.
maybrfd
sogood51
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Scott

Something to remember: LFE is always there as long as the sub is set to on..it has nothing to do with your other speaker settings. Any speaker set to small will have it's bass freq's below the X-over point you have set sent to the sub in addition to the LFE.

Speaker (size) settings is only a bass management tool for those that do not have full-range speakers in every position. LFE (.1) is a channel of discrete information that is recorded into the soundtrack as are the others.

You can e-mail me if you need any help

Dave
sogood51
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Scott

In response to: see note 1, pg 25 of manual

That only will happen if the sub is turned OFF, you will have it turned ON. Take another read. Also read page 27 (MC Bass Mode), defalt is OFF but could want to try ON also for the heck of it. Also, your unit has bass/treble controls...the bass control could be of some use if you need to add some role-off to your large mains.

Nice unit, I wish I had it here to play with!!

Dave
maybrfd OP
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Dave,

You are absolutely right on and thank you for taking time out of your day to look into this. I carefully read the Bass Mode section you pointed me to. This will probably work great for the Theater mode, albeit, I'll have some over lap between the Sub and the L-R (i.e. the Theateri drops sharply at 70hz and the Oddesseys at 35hz). If I'm reading this right though, I might be able to adjust down for Stereo mode and/or completely turn off the Sub in settings where response is more critical, which you are right, is going to be fun to play with.

My Oddesseys arrived today and I hooked them up to my Parasound theater system for a test drive (and to start the break in). They are extremely bright as advertised, but unbelievebly crystal clean. I played Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Michel Murray arrangement of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor; simply unbelievable detail. I can't wait for the Mac to show up (and the bass to break-in on the MLs). This is going to be a lot of fun.

I'll let you know how it takes shape, when the rest of the hardware arives.

Dave - keep in touch, I want some updates on your theater as it takes full and center stage.

Thanks again,
Scott
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