Setting up Bryston SP2 with B&W speakers

[alpina]

Hi guys,

So excited - home renovation is near completed and AV gear is now out and wired up.

We have a SP2, 6BSST, 4BSST coupled with B&W speakers - 804s, HTM3S, 705s, ASW750.

Would love some advise on how best to set the SP2 for this setup in respect to speaker settings - eg, size, crossovers, etc.

Please please please help

Cheers,

Julie

[Briz vegas]

80hz is the THX standard. Some folks say take the load off your mains and put it to the sub by setting the main speakers to small. I think this sounds less full and prefer to set my speakers to large. Try a few movie samples and decide from there what you prefer.

You have excellent speakers with excellent amplification so they can handle the bigger frequency range. The choice would be a little harder if you had 2 800 series subwoofers. Either way I would suggest a little experimentation as the acoustics of your room may lend themselves to one setting over the other - there is no wrong setting.

Nice setup by the way. I would sound almost as good as mine :

[Phil Rose]

I blew the woofers in one of my N802 using Bryston 7B-ST amplification on a certian movie while running at a 40Hz crossover. I now run 60Hz for movies but always run full range and no sub for 2-channel.

[RNKC]

Phil raises a good point. Your 804s are obviously full-range speakers and can handle a lot, but for movies there's no reason to really strain them. 60Hz sounds about right to me. Personally I would also set the SP2 to treat all the speakers as large.

For 2 channel listening though (if you use this system for 2 channels) you might want to try no sub and see how it sounds. If you find it lacking in a 2 channel setup I'd say 40Hz might be OK here as a crossover.