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In Reply to: REL subwoofer cable termination posted by coolkiko on March 20, 2007 at 14:36:06:
The cable you're talking about is the speaker level connection, normally used for connecting the sub in a MUSIC system. Kenster told you how to hook it up. I simply added banana plugs to the 3 bare wires when hooking my Storm III up to my audio system.My Storm III now resides in my HT system, hooked up to a Denon AVR 2807 receeiver. Here I use a normal HT subwoofer cable, essentially a long, RCA analog interconnect, to go between the subwoofer out jack on the receiver to the RCA socket low level input on the Storm. I have the phase control set to one of the LFE settings which disables the Storm's input filters, the gain setting set to half way, and the crossover setting set to it's highest setting at 99 Hz or so. The Denon receiver handles the crossover between the sub and the other speakers.
You talked about connecting to a HT receiver. If you want the sub to handle the low frequency effects channel, the .1 channel, you're going to have to do a line level connection from the subwoofer out jack. There's no other way to really do a good job of keeping the LFE channel info out of your other channels and using any bass management functions your receiver has.
The speaker level connection cable works fine in a 2 channel music only system. In a multi-channel HT system hooked up to a receiver, I'd go for the low level input rather than the speaker level one. Make sure the phase setting control is set to one of the 2 LFE settings and, if your receiver has bass management functions, I'd tend to use them rather than use the REL's controls. Using the receiver's functions will almost certainly give you better results in a multi-channel HT system, especially if the receiver has an auto set-up and room equalisation function like my Denon 2807 does. The Denon blends my Storm into the system seamlessly and I think it gives better results than I ever got trying to blend it in to my 2 channel audio system using the speaker level connection. That worked well and I have no complaints about it used that way, but I doubt I could get anywhere near as good a result in a 5.1 system trying to do things that way as I get when I just use the low level input and leave the 2807 to manage everything using its auto setup process.
David Aiken
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