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I have been reading a lot of people recommending all non tower speakers be set to small in a home theatre set up but here is my issue. My yamaha receiver will not allow me to set the front speakers to small unless I tell it I have a subwoofer. By what I have been reading setting small speakers to large can damage speakers not able to handle low bass. If this is true should I say I have a subwoofer so I can set my fronts to small or keep it at large until I can afford a subwoofer. My front speakers are polk TSI 100 's with a Frequency Response of 53-25KHz
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You are doing just fine - some small loudspeakers do have a good amout of bass in them so it would sound just fine.
It also wouldn't hurt to run the front speaker set as "small" - even without a subwoofer connected. i'm not sure how the receiver would "know" you have "forgotten" to connect one - no harm would come to the receiver.
The Drawback of this is that there will be a lot less output into the room at low frequencies - Say two octaves (16 white keys) below middle "C" of the piano. That's where the subwoofer comes into play.
And Without a subwoofer that part of the music or soundtrack will not be present. of course with "small" front speakers you may already be missing a lot of the lower bass frequencies. Lots of decent subwoofers are out there for under $200.
Note that two cheaper subwoofers are better than one at double the price. And - though many will argue the fact here - setting even larger Left and right front speakers to "Small" will likely produce better sound when subwoofers are used.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
I have a related question about this (and its a follow-up to my original post here: http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=speakers&m=337705. If using the B&W 602's as main and surrounds (also with a Yamaha receiver) what are the suggestions about settings of small and large etc. and what to send to the sub?
Kerry
As some have suggested already I would also say run the fronts "large", if you tell the receiver you have a sub it directs the LFE there, typically on "large" and "no sub" the LFE Is directed to mains. Your mains may not be able to fully produce the LFE but it will sound better, and, caution not to over drive your speakers is suggested.
Just curious if you have ran the YPAO to see how it sets things up. You usually get a nice flat response. In one room I have a small set up with in-walls, just mains and center with no sub, the receiver I have uses Audessey but I like the result of the equalization.
You have nothing to worry about with setting your bookshelf fronts to 'large'. A couple of reasons - distortion kills a speaker, not an extended frequency range. Distortion happens when either the source is failing (rare), or much more likely, when the amplifier is being over-driven.
Small speakers should be used in small/medium sized rooms, therefore, minimal need to push the amplifier too hard to drive them.
Integrated amplifiers are full range in their delivery. They are designed to drive speakers of all shapes and sizes. Speaker manufacturers will never tell you not to use a stereo integrated amplifier with their speakers.
5.1 standards can cause all kinds of unnecessary concerns in the minds of it's users. Set to 'large' with confidence. Enjoy.
Yamaha (and all the other receiver brands) only say 'set to small' when using a sub-woofer because they want to avoid as much frequency cross-feed as possible - otherwise it will bloat the lower mid-bass if both the bookshelf speakers and the sub-woofer are trying to output some of the same information.
You will not be able to fill a large room with sound even if the bass is removed from the speakers. You still risk damaging them..easier with full range signal applied. However, if the room is small to medium size and you sit relatively close, and you listen them to comfortably loud levels (above conversation levels), you are good to go sending full range to them.
again, why not post in the video (home theater asylum)? I could be wrong but common sense tells me that if a speaker is set to large the receiver assumes that the speaker is large (large drivers) so it does not send as much low end audio to that site, If it is set to "small" the low end will be boosted to compensate. Make sense?
setting the front speakers to large will send full range output to the fronts. That being said your receiver should have am LFE effects control. If you're worried simply turn off the LFE.
I learned something. Here is an interesting article... http://www.ecoustics.com/articles/set-speakers-small-receiver-setup/
read it. It explains everything. Again sorry for the poor advice...
and not an issue at all. HT has its own vocabulary and precepts ad it can get confusing.
In practice I like to run all my speaker mains at full range regardless of size I get better sound, IMHO, that way, but then YMMV and FWIW.
If using a sub and using the HT receiver sub settings then I run the sub full range as much as possible (highest crossover point)
but it sounds awesome to me.
Sold an av recver to a retiree n offered to set it up. (No charge). The gentleman informed me he had just retired after 20 years of computer networking for the military. His exact words were " I think I can handle a $500 receiver." No problem, but i told him the offer remains open.
After two weeks i get a call from the wife for help because her dining table is covered.with diagrams n flow charts n nothing was working properly. A quick house call solved the problems but av logic aint computer logic.
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