smoothes out the peaks and dips which result from the eigenmodes in your
room. Two subwoofers couple much better to the air in your room (four
times better) and
of
course offer double the power.
In
addition, some
state-of-the-art home
theater
installations have begun to use a sepa-
rate
subwoofer hooked
up
to
the
rear
(surround) channels
and
we
recommend this for the absolute ultimate in performance.
Dual
Subwoofer
Connections
When hooking up a stereo pair
of
subwoofers, wiring is quite similar
to traditional high level connections. Here, instead
of
running both speaker
cables from your receiver or amplifier to the left and right high level
input terminals on the subwoofer, you will run the left channel to the left
channel subwoofer and the right channel to the right channel subwoofer.
Again, take care to make red to red
("+") and black to black ("-") terminal
connections.
Don't
worry that on your left subwoofer the right channel terminals
will be empty and that on the right channel subwoofer the left channel
terminals will be
empty-both
channels are combined at the subwoofer's
input stage. There is a possibility that with this type
of
wiring you may
need to increase your gain a little bit for proper balance.
A dual subwoofer system using low level connections is equally
simple: just put a Y connector on your LFE output and run one cable to
each subwoofer.
Critical
Bass
Management
Settings
Your receiver
or
decoder has a bass management system which
ABSOLUTELY must be set for you to get proper performance from
your system. This is not something
that
is
subtle in its importance.
It
is
absolutely critical.
In
general
if
you
are
setting
up
a ProCinema System
using
our
ProSubs, ProMonitors and ProCenters, follow these simple
instructions:
•
If
you are hooking up the sub with the
low
level
LFE
connection,
set your receiver/decoder bass management to "Sub-
Yes"
and
set
left main, right main, center, left
rear
and right
rear
to "Small."
•
If
you have a choice
of
crossover frequency, choose the highest
one available.
•
If
you use a speaker level connection where you
run
the speaker
wire from the receiver to the sub and then from the sub to the left
and
right mains, set
"Sub
- No," left main
and
right main to
"Large," and center, left
and
right
rear
to "Small."
• Also make sure you properly set the channel balance as outlined
in your receiver/decoder manual. There
is
also more detailed
information in your ProMonitor manual.
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