800D with Velodyne DD12 settings?

[SRT-10 Viper]

I have 800D fronts with N802 rear speakers and an HTM2D center. I just purchased Velodyne DD12 (wanted to go 18" but wife said no more large speakers! 8O ). For HT, I have a Denon 5085. How should I set up my speakers? Should I go Large on all speakers Or, should I set the speakers (some or all) to small and set the crossover? If so, where would you set the crossover point? Also, should I run LFE-THX where the sub plays the LFE channel and from channels where the speaker is set small. The other option is to run LFE+Main. This setting has low frequencies sent to the speakers set to large as well as to the subwoofer. How would you set up this system?

[Stevebez]

See this ...

http://www.avtalk.co.uk/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=5373&start=0&rid=5729&SQ=1123670949

Also elsewhere in that forum there is a VERY long thread discussing hooking it up.

Your impressions of the HTM2D??? Thinking about it as an Xmas present.

Rgds Steve.

[SRT-10 Viper]

Steve; I think the HTM2D does an excellent job integrating with my 800D fronts. I would highly recommend it!

[caleb]

Hi SRT,

I would have thought that your 800's deserve a slightly better sub.

The 8002 will go down to 35Hz comfortably.

So my recomendation would be to cut them at around 40/50Hz, and let the sub take over from there.

This is my setting for the 802's and ASW850 that I am running, and they intergate very well - no sign of any frequencies missing, however I am using the TAG McLeren TMREQ facility which does a very good job of correcting any room resonances in the 20 to 100 Hz region.

[Lex]

Steve, please avoid pointing to other forums, we prefer to have our own discussions here instead of sending someone off elsewhere for answers.

[Stevebez]

Lex,

It seems we cannot comment on subs specifically in B&W forum - how else can I provide info about a sub specific issue if I cannot comment here or provide the link to where the info is at?

I was not aware we were not allowed to refer to other forums in this forum. If so I apologise.

Rgds Steve.

[joelwbm]

I have spent many days with a similar setup that you have, except that I have DD18. At first I placed it in a corner, but the bass was always boomy and uneven regardless of the adjustments I tried. Then I placed the DD18 in the position of the center channel (on its side to gain 2 inches in the height), and placed the HTM2D on top. Not as bad looking as you might think, and the bass is now of reference quality. As far as adjustments are concerned - at first I followed THX recommendations and used 80Hz cutoffs. The sound was thin. Conclusions, do not mess with the B&W, give it full bandwidth if you can. Unfortunately my Meridian 861 places a 30Hz minimum crossover when you use LFE. That's low enough not to affect the 800D sound. In fact the 800D can use some help up to about 50Hz, which is where I set the crossover point for the DD18 to get the flattest bass response measurment. The resulting bass quality is excellent.

[SRT-10 Viper]

Joelwbm, I am looking at Meridian G series or Lexicon V5.... I also just bought a Krell TAS, What do you think of the Meridian? How dies the Lex V5 compare?

[sascha h-k]

if somebody writes about b&w in the forum mentioned above (velodyne), there's no problem at all ....

please take it easy

regards
sascha

[joelwbm]

I think Meridian does top notch equipment which sound amazing. But I never had a chance to compare to other products. I wish I could.