Is living room home theater without a sub hurting my 804's?

[John22614]

Hey guys,

Would very much appreciate your opinion on this. I recently decided to try running my home theater without a sub. I just can't find a suitable location for it in my living room and don't want want to bug my neighbors. I live in a town home with one common wall.

In my current set up I am running the 804 mains as "large" with the center HTM4 crossover at 80hz. It actually sounds pretty good.....and I don't exceed moderate volumes. I have a good, clean fairly powerful Anthem amp at 225 wpc at 8 ohms. I don't detect any distortion or clipping and actually prefer this set up for stereo music.

So, I just want to make sure I am not damaging my mains when watching 5.1 movies. Would appreciate your opinions on this.

Thanks,

John

[gene9p]

should be fine..the sub bass is redirected to your mains when you set sub to none in your speaker setup.It just won't go as low as a sub but the bass management won't overload your main speakers.

[John22614]

ok, thanks Gene. I appreciate your response......thought it was ok. Just wanted to make sure.

[Charlieu]

Usually if you aren't using a sub, you would run all your speakers as "Large". I'm not familiar with the Outlaw, so check the manual to make sure that if you use a crossover on your center and surrounds that their bass is redirected to the mains.

[John22614]

Thanks......that's the way I have it set up, low bass from the center and surrounds are redirected to the mains. Sounds pretty good actually.