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RE: 1.7i's arriving soon to my large listening room

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In Reply to: RE: 1.7i's arriving soon to my large listening room posted by Satie on March 19, 2016 at 23:53:19

I really appreciate all of your input, and your patience in going over some basic stuff. In particular, the value of plants in audio never occurred to me before! A few follow-ups:

I have some limited flexibility in bringing the speakers in from the side walls. Is there any enthusiasm for the tweeter inboard configuration, if the speaker distance is on the wide side?

The tweeter attenuator is a good suggestion if the sound proves overly bright. I'll try it!

Regarding the possibility of powered subs, the Sphinx offers 1 fixed and 1 variable RCA output. I interpreted this as accommodating a single powered sub, am I wrong?

Damn, I hear Mr. Bryston calling from far away across the border...

Thanks again.

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RE: 1.7i's arriving soon to my large listening room - Satie 15:57:23 03/20/16 (1)
I am not sure what the rogue outputs mean unless they are pairs of RCA outputs - not summed mono which would be unusual. Generally you would take the variable output out to the active subwofer's line input - both channels if you use one sub 1 channel to each one if you are using a pair of subs. I don't favor using the speaker level output to the subwoofer.

Do you have a link for the manual for yours?

If you are stuck with the speakers close to the sidewalls then you definitely want the tweeters in position so that the tweeters are away from the stone wall in particular,,

Though the Bryston is widely favored for maggies I personally dont like them much. Try before you buy, lots of dealers carry them.
- RE: 1.7i's arriving soon to my large listening room - DougAFC 19:42:13 03/20/16 (0)
  Thanks Satie. The manual confirms what you implied. A single pair of variable outputs can connect to 1 subwoofer.
  
  http://www.rogueaudio.com/documents/Sphinx.pdf
  
  I'll plan to try the tweeter-in configuration as well as tweeter-out. Thanks for your thoughts on Bryston.
RE: 1.7i's arriving soon to my large listening room - rosendds@frontiernet.net 05:27:23 03/20/16 (1)
When using a pr.of subs.and crossing over to the 1.7's at 80HZ,is that done by running the power amp.outputs into the subs.and then running the speaker output of the subs.to the 1.7's?
- RE: 1.7i's arriving soon to my large listening room - Satie 19:35:04 03/22/16 (0)
  It is usually better to take the signal to the subwoofers from the line level variable outs from the preamp or integrated. Some powered subs only have a speaker level input.

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