Danieladbidh
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Somebody posted their improvised 5.2 in a rental and it's a tidier job than a lot of permanent installs I've seen. TCL 85QM851G, Denon X1700H, a miniDSP 2x4 HD, KEF Q350 doing left, centre and right with the rear ports plugged, Polk XT15 for surrounds, and a pair of RSL Speedwoofer 10e. The place already had pre-outs run for a 5.0 from a previous setup, which is luck you don't get twice.
One thing I'd copy and two I'd argue with.
Copy: three identical Q350 across the front instead of a dedicated horizontal centre. A matched LCR beats a same-family centre almost every time, and the off-axis lobing from a two-woofer horizontal cabinet is the single most common reason people end up saying dialogue goes thin for whoever is sitting at the ends of the sofa.
Argue one: plugging the rear ports. Fair enough if they're jammed against a wall, but that trades away output below the port tune on all three fronts and pushes more work down to the subs. With a crossover at 80 and two Speedwoofers behind it that's probably fine, it's just worth measuring rather than assuming.
Argue two, and this is the actual problem they described - they couldn't get the subs sounding right through the miniDSP and are now planning to repurpose it for bass shakers. Level matching two subs is the easy part. The hard part is that two subs in a small room fight each other at the seat, and no amount of PEQ fills a null caused by placement. Move first, measure, then EQ what's left.
Anyone here running dual Speedwoofers in a small squarish living room - did you end up front and back, or diagonally opposite corners?
One thing I'd copy and two I'd argue with.
Copy: three identical Q350 across the front instead of a dedicated horizontal centre. A matched LCR beats a same-family centre almost every time, and the off-axis lobing from a two-woofer horizontal cabinet is the single most common reason people end up saying dialogue goes thin for whoever is sitting at the ends of the sofa.
Argue one: plugging the rear ports. Fair enough if they're jammed against a wall, but that trades away output below the port tune on all three fronts and pushes more work down to the subs. With a crossover at 80 and two Speedwoofers behind it that's probably fine, it's just worth measuring rather than assuming.
Argue two, and this is the actual problem they described - they couldn't get the subs sounding right through the miniDSP and are now planning to repurpose it for bass shakers. Level matching two subs is the easy part. The hard part is that two subs in a small room fight each other at the seat, and no amount of PEQ fills a null caused by placement. Move first, measure, then EQ what's left.
Anyone here running dual Speedwoofers in a small squarish living room - did you end up front and back, or diagonally opposite corners?
