I am new to the Rotel world, I have recently bought a RSP985, accompanied by what in my opinion is a very poor manual. Everything is still to be connected together (I am waiting for a HT room to be made available), so I didn't go yet through the ultimate step: try and hear...
Looking at the manual I am very confused about the best way to connect the speakers. I have made a search on the forum with no result, so I would be grateful if someone can help.
I have a set of Monitor Audio Silver speakers (front: silver 5, center: Silver Centre, surround: Silver 3), plus a Velodyne CT-80 sw. It seems to me a shame not to exploit the bass capabilities of the Monitor Audio, particularly when used in stereo mode.
For this reason I was thinking to set the speakers to "large", as I expect DD and DTS to pilot the sw via the LFE channel anyway, at the cost of leaving Stereo and Surround modes without the sw support. I would have liked, in Stereo and Surround modes, to redirect frequencies under 40 Hz to the sw, but from the manual I understand it is not possible without setting the speakers to "small" and have a cutoff frequency of 80 Hz.
Reading the manual further it seems that setting the speakers to "small" redirects LFE frequencies to the sw. Now I wonder whether even DD and DTS will not get the sw support if the speakers are set to "large". After reading the posts on the forum I also wonder if the RSP985 is affected by the Bass Management problem that affects the 1066.
Can someone suggest what the best setting would be, thanks.
Looking at the manual I am very confused about the best way to connect the speakers. I have made a search on the forum with no result, so I would be grateful if someone can help.
I have a set of Monitor Audio Silver speakers (front: silver 5, center: Silver Centre, surround: Silver 3), plus a Velodyne CT-80 sw. It seems to me a shame not to exploit the bass capabilities of the Monitor Audio, particularly when used in stereo mode.
For this reason I was thinking to set the speakers to "large", as I expect DD and DTS to pilot the sw via the LFE channel anyway, at the cost of leaving Stereo and Surround modes without the sw support. I would have liked, in Stereo and Surround modes, to redirect frequencies under 40 Hz to the sw, but from the manual I understand it is not possible without setting the speakers to "small" and have a cutoff frequency of 80 Hz.
Reading the manual further it seems that setting the speakers to "small" redirects LFE frequencies to the sw. Now I wonder whether even DD and DTS will not get the sw support if the speakers are set to "large". After reading the posts on the forum I also wonder if the RSP985 is affected by the Bass Management problem that affects the 1066.
Can someone suggest what the best setting would be, thanks.
