It depends what kind of front speakers you are using. Matt could probably better help but usually with average home speakers it's around 80.

The theory is that the lower the setting (to avoid sound localization), the better, but not so low that there's a noticeable gap between the main speakers' low cutoff and the sub's high cutoff.

Larry
www.fineelectricco.com

slocko: The most important thing is that you are happy with the results. I for one am glad to see you resolved.

You can just save your acorns for that moment when you make the mistake of sitting down in a high-end HT showroom and have that urge for "MORE POWER".

Sheik,

Yes I am. I feel like I have completed my journey in hometheater that began two years ago when on a whim I bought the pioneer 727 mega changer while buying diapers at Costco. I actually bought it because I wanted a cd changer. When I actually opened the box I realized that it also played dvds. I rushed back to Costco and bought the Disney Classic 10 dvd pack which had most of the good animation titles. I connected the thing to my very old pioneer a/v receiver that only had pro logic and my 19 inch tv.

Fastforward 2 years later and now I own

1) Widescreen HDTV ready Hitachi that has been calibrated,
2) klipsch quintet silver speaker set
3) silver sony subwoofer
4) kenwood 5700 a/v receiver
5) kenwood 5900 400 dvd progressive changer (just about full)
6) pioneer 727 300 dvd changer
7) Flat IBM all in one Netvista that will contain all of my 400 cds burned to mp3. So far have burned 100 cds.
8) Nice silver stands
9) Silver Sony Ultimate TV dbs receiver
10) Radio Shack 1994 remote control that handles everything with a few pushes of the right buttons.
11) Nice audio/video rack (also silver)from furniture works that holds all of my equipment

As you can see most of the equipment is silver with the exception of the dvd players, the av receiver, and the computer. These are all black but they are inside the silver rack so it flows. I wanted the subwoofer silver so it could match the rest of the speakers. Oh yeah, the tv is silverish also.

Now that I think about it, I am still not finished because I am looking into a tablet pc so I can run a gui for my dvd collection. It will be wireless and it will control my mega changer based on what i select from the tablet. It's a very slick program.

And I am also eyeing the zenith 1080 for HDTV. I guess I'm not done yet :) Anyway, this is all warm up for my real hometheater next year. Keeping my fingers crossed on that one.

Well, it depends on how you have your subwoofer connected in your system.

1) If it's line level and your having your receiver crossover the frequencies to your loudspeakers, then take the crossover out of the loop in the sub. Usually there is a switch or something that allows this, or turn the crossover to it's highest setting.

Although this works most of the time, I prefer listening to the sub with different kinds of music and trying to get the mid bass region as clean as possible with small tweaks to the crossover and gain settings on the sub itself. Proper settings will take some time, it's not a one minute deal....

The avia disc works great for this, although, it can be a bit confusing...

thxs matt. that is what the manual said to do, turn it up all the way which I did and it sounds awesome to me. Man what i was missing!!!! I am going to watch all my movies over again :)

Good call Matt..