In this month's edition of Widescreen Review there is an article in which the writer/reviewer sets out some pretty good arguments as to why speakers should in fact be run full range (large setting) if at all possible in a home theatre setup to maximize sonic performance. The article starts on page 40 but the relevant text starts on the bottom of page 48.
Here is one quote from this article: ["If the loudspeakers around you are not substantially full range, you’ll run into several problems, and you won’t hear accurate bass, and you won’t get the full benefits of surround bass. For example, if you cut off the bass to all the surrounding loudspeakers, or if you use small loudspeakers that can’t reproduce bass in the first place, then you’ll have to electrically mix the bass from all channels to send it to the subwoofer (and also mix it with the LFE channel if present). But electrically mixing bass from plural channels tends to cancel out bass energy, due to phase cancellations, so you won’t be hearing full bass energy, nor will you hear accurate bass reproduction (since this phase cancellation continually varies over time, thereby artificially modulating and pumping the original bass sounds in and out at random)."]
In the very least, the reviewer advocates setting the speakers to small with a crossover set to 40 Hz. Check it out.
Here is one quote from this article: ["If the loudspeakers around you are not substantially full range, you’ll run into several problems, and you won’t hear accurate bass, and you won’t get the full benefits of surround bass. For example, if you cut off the bass to all the surrounding loudspeakers, or if you use small loudspeakers that can’t reproduce bass in the first place, then you’ll have to electrically mix the bass from all channels to send it to the subwoofer (and also mix it with the LFE channel if present). But electrically mixing bass from plural channels tends to cancel out bass energy, due to phase cancellations, so you won’t be hearing full bass energy, nor will you hear accurate bass reproduction (since this phase cancellation continually varies over time, thereby artificially modulating and pumping the original bass sounds in and out at random)."]
In the very least, the reviewer advocates setting the speakers to small with a crossover set to 40 Hz. Check it out.
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