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Hello everyone, I recently purchased a Mirage PS10 sub, Ive been experimenting with different ways of hooking it up and fine tuning. I read that using speaker wire to the high level input gives smoother bass as mine seems to be a little boomy and I cant turn level on sub up past 2 or it shakes everything within 10 feet. My quandry is this this the sub only has 4 connectors for speaker wire most Ive seen have 4 connectors in and 4 out to speakers. Do I just run wire in from amp then back out the same connectors to speakers. Any input would be greatly apreciated, thanks in advance.
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What you need is EQ. :) It sounds like you have some nasty resonant modes that are preventing you from turn up the volume. These are very narrow peaks which can be up to +20 dB or more, and are more prevalent the lower in frequency you go.
Check out Room EQ Wizard (free) with an inexpensive calibrated mic like the Dayton iMM-6 (see link, $25)
You'll also need some form of EQ, for which I recommend the miniDSP line.
At a bare minimum, what you want to look for are severe peaks. Clip them with EQ and that should allow you to turn the sub up to match the level of your main speakers.
In my case (two REL subs), I went with the low level RCA inputs. That put the desired setting of the level control rotation very low or about three small clicks above the off position. I ordered and installed a pair of these Rothwell 10 db attenuators from the UK. In my system, that put the working area of the control up into the 12:00 position.
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With the main speaker cables connected to the amplifier outputs as usual, run another pair of speaker cables from the amplifier outputs into the subwoofer speaker level inputs. The Mirage subwoofer is not designed to provide high-pass filtering for the main loudspeakers.
Hello and thank you for all the responses they have given me a better understanding of how the sub works with the amp. I have turned the crossover all the way down as suggested and that seems to have helped I think il try some sub placement options this weekend. Cheers
Thank you so much for every ones input.
I currently have a single rca going to the right ( or red ) low level input should i get a female to dual male rca splitter and try using both inputs? FYI I do have a sub out on my amp but no crossover in amp or at least I cant control it.
According to the manual, if you are not using an outboard crossover, and your amp has only one output, you just need to connect to the one. The single sub output from your amp is already combining the stereo signal into mono. Not sure what would happen with a splitter. Probably a dual voice coil inside the sub. Could be trouble... for both the speaker and amp. Not recommended.
Cheers!
Jonesy
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Using the high level ( speaker) inputs, you are running both the sub and main speakers full range with no high pass filter to the main speakers. It does not make any difference where you hook up the speaker wire. If possible you should try using the low level active inputs and see if you like it better!
I would leave your speaker wire alone and add a second run from the amp to the sub. Also try the crossover frequency lower. I would start at the lowxextreme and go up from there and find where you like it. You'll likely find that the lower the crossover frequency is set the sub volume can go a little higher.
ET
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