Subwoofer Crossover: Best Settings For Home Theater And Home Audio Systems

Is your understanding of Subwoofer Crossover points sub par? Chief Product Officer Andrew Welker has you covered in this video. It's easy to see why it's confusing when you look at the main points that are reviewed 👇

• Crossover Setting Switch Or Rotary Control Settings Answered Painlessly (But With Hertz)
• AVR Crossover Setting, How To Handle The Double Crossover Dilemma In Your Home Theater
• When To Use The LFE Input / Switch
• What To Do If You're Using A Stereo Receiver Or Integrated Amp Without A Sub Output

"Subwoofer Crossover: Best Settings?" is the first video in our new series of videos called "Quick Tips". This series leans to the practical instead of the theoretical. It will focus on answering frequently asked questions and providing the solutions. We look forward your comments, questions, and suggestions they are the inspiration for upcoming video topics.

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[Sam-chmn]

Andrew, you helped me some time ago with a similar question for which I’m grateful. You really help to take the mystery out of audio/video settings with these straightforward explanations. You are now my go-to channel for advice and I’m now busy working on toeing-in my main speakers… or not, based on another of your videos. Great to have an experienced and authoritative advisor.

[rezzzzmeeee]

I’m a major rookie I need set up for dummies definitely your tips on the LFE were exactly what I was wondering on my subwoofer appreciate it. Thank you.

[ChrisWilliams-vmdo]

Thank you. I know nothing about any of this and you explained it simple enough for me to successfully set up my audio. Use the tuners crossover (80hz), take the woofers crossover out of play by turning the dial to the highest frequency. Done. No other video I watched broke it down like that.

[TOTALLYTMAC]

OMG! Thank you so much Andrew. I've been doing so much research on soooo many sound variables with regard to my home theater room to achieve the best results. I'm getting the new Klipsch RP 1400sw subwoofer for my system tomorrow and I had no idea what to set the low pass filter to. I knew that the sub had as LFE input and I was aware that it was the proper input to use. However, I did not know by using that input, I didn't have to worry about a hz setting on the low pass filter because the sub would automatically allow the AVR to do the integration with the other speakers. Now that I understand that, that's one less thing I need to be concerned about! Your simple explanantion relieved some of my anxiety and for that I"m truly grateful!

[arnelvega]

Hey mate, this video of yours truly helps a lot how to croosover a subwoofer. I set my croosover to my Yamaha reciever to each of my speakers and usually set my subwoofer croosover and gain to half volume and keep experimenting then turn the subwoofer croosover all the way to 120 hz then wow the sound is soo clear + deep bass especially in Dolby Atmos 👍🙏

[graspingoil]

Thank you for being straight to the point and giving practical advice. You gave solution and clear rationale behind it.

[cruzingrsx]

My good man here’s how I have my sub hooked up on my two channel system. My tower’s go down to 35Hz according to it’s spec’s. My sub goes down to 20Hz according to it’s spec’s, so I set the crossover point on the sub to start at 45Hz that’s 10Hz before the towers drop off. The volume is set so the sub disappears but in heavy bass tracks you can definitely hear the low end from the sub

[Handi]

My AVR’s manual clearly states to set the subwoofer volume midrange & the cutoff to max. And the AVR handles the cutoff.

[JayJay-jxzg]

Great video, thank you. Now i need another video on what to set the LPF for LFE frequency to vs all the other speakers in my 7.2.4 system.

[BobGeogeo]

One thing to add from experience: Power outages. I'm mostly a 2 channel listener now. I have an AVR that can control crossover. But when the power goes out it goes back to defaults. I like using the physical crossover dial on my sub since that stays put. The starting point of 80 Hz seems to work well with my M3Ti's. The sub is a small basic 1010 from ELAC.

[invisibles]

Extremely good information, I had the settings on my subwoofers in my home theater set to 80hz. After watching your video, I turn the crossover to bypass, so my home theater processor do the job by itself. Really good information. Hope you do more for home theater subwoofer settings, you really explain it good.

[muhammedjihad]

Thank you so much dude thank you I had my subwoofer at 80 hurt and it didn’t sound real good so I proved it up and it sounds way better in the movies. Thank you.

[josephfranzen]

Hi Andrew, I’ve finally saved enough to upgrade to a complete Axiom setup this summer. That being said I’ve been enjoying my existing Mirage collection which you engineered. It includes a pair of OMD-28’s an OMD-C2, a pair of OM-9’s and a pair of Omni 260’s with 6 OMD-5’s for my height layer and 4 BPS-400’s for sub duty. My bedroom system is a pair of OM-5’s which I absolutely love. Needless to say your being at Axiom is what attracted me to the brand and for about six months now I’ve been saving and planning to upgrade my Atmos system to an Axiom setup. I recently picked up a pair of M-80’s off the second hand market and was absolutely blown away. You guys are truly a hidden gem in a market saturated with under whelming products advertised with marketing buzzwords. Keep up the amazing work!

[wekkimeif]

I've gone with old classic Rel Q50 for my setup and this video helped to configure it right, thanks :D

[Cuzin_Ken]

What an informative video. So well explained. Keep up the great work!

[odd-looking-dude]

Great vid thanks.
I have a free useful app on my android phone which I think will help people understand what’s happening and tune the sub in nicely: Frequency Generator.
Connect the phones headphone output to an aux-in on AVR or amplifier (or an rca input using cheap adapter cable), and the app lets you wind the freq up and down with a slider. You can hear when the main speakers start to drop off, and adjust sub crossover to start responding there or a bit higher if preferred.
Also good for balancing the sub volume to the main speakers volume.

[roberteshaw]

Andrew, Always appreciated. Sometimes the simplest of things are never addressed. The AVR example is one, LFE as you said but, ultimately let the AVR's settings do the job. Excellent point. And as for 2 channel, just simply making the integration seamless, so it sounds as though the bass is coming directly through your speakers. SVS is my favorite as their higher end models offer a blue tooth setting, whereas you can sit in you favorite chair with remote and avoid constantly getting up for further adjustments. Easier on back too. Thanks so much for your video's and tips. Robert TN PS I'm sending a response to an earlier post about speaker grills, YES, I do prefer mine off when listening. Not a Giant leap forward, but, as you said in the higher frequency ranges somewhat notable. Thanks

[randyrandy]

Interesting and informative, as always. Thanks! I look forward to your posts.
For some reason, I couldn't recall what LFE abbreviated..., I was thinking Low Frequency ... E-something. Finally had to look it up. :) Encoding. Doesn't sound right, but I looked it up on the internet so it must be true.🙃

[Gragon]

Hi. Let me get this straight. I have a pair of active speakers (edifier airpulse a100) with subout RCA port and rel t5/x subwoofer with low level input and LFE input. From what I understood from your video I should stick RCA into the LFE because crossover is being done on the active speaker side? REL recommends sticking into the low level.

[ShaileshPatel-lecq]

All Yamaha Bookshelf
Speakers FREQUENCY as below.
AVR - Yamaha HTR 3072 (5.1)
Center - 58Hz - 45Khz
FS - 57Hz - 45Khz
SS - 62Hz - 20Khz
SW - 20-160Hz
According to abv what crossover is to be set.
Current I set 80HZ