Receivers for surround sound

[cmspaz]

Originally Posted by 95tsi

I dunno about that. I kinda like them and every decent hometheater system or speaker system seems to have them.... I have 2 going in my room;a 250w KRK 10" hitting at about 36hz and a 500w Infinity 12" hitting down to around 20hz, and thinking about building up another. Reciever is a Yamaha HTR-5490 then its Definitve Technology for the front and rear towers and center.

Yeah, but half the time, I'm not listening to music at a high enough volume to trigger a powered sub, even with the sensitivity all the way up. A non-powered sub doesn't have that problem.

[95tsi]

Originally Posted by cmspaz

Yeah, but half the time, I'm not listening to music at a high enough volume to trigger a powered sub, even with the sensitivity all the way up. A non-powered sub doesn't have that problem.

You shouldnt need to listen at crazy high levels to 'trigger' the sub. The sub gets the same sound signal just is non-powered. So, you should be able to adjust the volume on the sub to make the proper sound for the frequency and the volume. The problem with a non powered sub, in my opinion, is the reciever generally dosnt have enough power going to it to really make it effective at certain frequencies.