Sunday, April 6, 2014

Crossover Settings

These are the settings of my Behringer DCX 2496 crossover as of April 6, 2014.  I worked on these settings over the past few months, primarily to reduce bass boom from room modes that were disturbing outside the listening position especially, and made the walls rattle so it was not enjoyable at the listening position either.  I think the bass may be a bit too attenuated at 45 Hz on music (but on pure tones, it doesn't sound attenuated) but I haven't been able to come up with settings I like better.  It seems any attempt to roll back the -11dB attenuation at 45 Hz leads to boom in a strange nonlinear way.  However my experimentation has been cut short by my fear that I would lose these magic settings, so I also wanted to make sure I recorded them before further fiddling.

#1 Subwoofer Left w 10dB balanced attenuator

Channel A -9.0 dB
LR 24 80 Hz
EQ 1.  BP 30 Hz +2.0 Q3.5
EQ 2.  BP 45 Hz -11.0 Q4.0
EQ 3.  BP 39 Hz -3.6 Q 5.6
EQ 4.  BP 32 Hz + 4.0 Q 2.0
EQ 5.  BP 25 Hz +3.0 Q 1.4
Delay 0

#4 Subwoofer Right w 10dB balanced attenuator, level at 1220 (slightly beyond straight up)
Channel B -9.0
LR 24 80 Hz
EQ 1.  BP 27 Hz + 1.8 Q 1.6
EQ 2.  BP 45 Hz - 11.0 Q5
EQ 3.  BP 66 Hz -3.0 Q 3.2
EQ 4.  BP 32 Hz +2.0 Q 1.4
Delay Long 0.1m 0.29mS

#2 Acoustat Left unbalanced via Aragon 8008 BB
Channel A -6.1
LR 24 80Hz (no high pass)
EQ Off
Delay Long 0.85m 2.47mS

#5 Acoustat Left unbalanced via Aragon 8008 BB
Channel B -6.1
LR 24 80 Hz (no high pass)
EQ Off
Delay Short 8mm 0.02mS Long 0.85m 2.47 mS

#3 Elac 4pi via Parasound HCA-1000A no attenuation
Channel A -3.0
Butterworth 48 20kHz high pass only
EQ Off
Delay Short 672mm 1.96mS Long 0

#6 Elac 4pi via Parasound HCA-1000A no attenuation
Channel B -3.0
Butterworth 48 20kHz high pass only
EQ off
Delay Short 678mm 1.97mS




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