Need help using a subwoofer crossover

Hifi,
I wound up buying an ACI Titan and a Marchand XM9 crossover. Life is good, but I'm already wondering what an even better sub and main speakers would do. :)

Curious how you made out with the crossover settings? My understanding is that the crossover setting on your sub will not affect the signal that your main speaks receive.
What was your outcome?

Thanks for the input, guys. I tried running in and out from the speaker-level in/outs and it worked fine. It leads to another question that I'll ask in a different thread about how the crossover and amp interact.

Does your CT-120 provide speaker-level in/out connections? If your pre-amp or integrated amp is meant for stereo only (no processor) and/or lacks an output labeled "subwoofer" or similar (which are usually filtered) you may get a better result using the high-level (speaker-level) connections to the sub in your case. It sounds counter-intuitive, but connecting a powered sub this way can actually sound a lot better if your preamp or integrated is not fitted with a line-level sub output.

Also, the "line out" on many powered subs is often not meant to feed a signal back to the pre-amp, but may be used to "daisy-chain" another sub. That may explain why you are not getting any sound from your main speakers with it connected this way.

Try running speaker cable from your preamp to the sub's speaker level inputs, then another set to your monitors from the sub's speaker outputs (assuming it has this connection, of course), and the adjustable crossover in the Velodyne will filter out the low frequencies before they reach your monitors so they will play louder and cleaner than otherwise. Definately worth a try! JZ

Main out? does that mean main speakers or main subwoofer, if it is main speakers ofcourse you wont get sound from anything but sub, is there an LFE out>?

It seems like what you describe would work... so your description is puzzling. However, even if this would work, it would hardly be worth the sonic degradation on your system. The quality of the sub-crossover is probably low, and it would rob a lot from the signal feeding your power amp.. and affect the quality of the sound from your main speaker.
I had this dilema once with NHT super zeros and a sub, where I opted for making simple passive high pass filters in line between the pre and the power amp, resulting in much better sound than using the Sub crossover. I still have these sitting arround, and would be happy to pass them on to you for free. However, the Impeadance of your poweramp would determine if you could use them or not. The cut of is about 127Hz when used with 38Khoms impeadance (ROTEL), but would change depending on the impeadance of your amp.

I would think that you want some overlap. Even a really good crossover won't simply "cut-off" at 120hz exactly. The question is what will cause worse sound, a little overlap or a gap in frequencies?