Keep your Cantons fully connected with the jumper. They go down to 25Hz. If the crossover is 3,000Hz, you lose most all of the speakers capability. The Jamo goes down to 20Hz with a lower cut-off at the sub of 40Hz. I would hook up as you explained via the high level speaker terminals. Then to start, set the crossover at the sub to the lowest setting of 40Hz and adjust the gain. Bottom line, you are going to have to experiment with the subs best placement within your room, and the gain while playing a dynamic recording. And, who knows, you may even try raising the cut-off higher at the sub. No two rooms are the same, so there isn’t just one solution to this.
But don’t worry about the speakers and subs ‘being redundant’, when you get everything balanced, the extra bass can make a nice difference and will help the Cantons, not take away from them. Again, you just have to experiment and find out what makes your Canton’s sound best with the additional bass from the Jamo. The key is for both to sound as seamless as possible, and not to know there is bass coming from the sub specifically. In other words ‘disappear’. If the Jamo is obvious, you have work to do with placement and settings.
I am being extremely basic here.
As far as the RCA inputs, does your preamp or integrated have RCA outputs for this purpose? Does it have LFE? Personally, for music, I would disregard the LFE completely. And simply do as Paul describes, and which you referred to.
You will have many other suggestions, but I would start as suggested above. Just don’t not lose the majority of your Cantons capability, actually you would be using less that half if you took out the jumper.
But don’t worry about the speakers and subs ‘being redundant’, when you get everything balanced, the extra bass can make a nice difference and will help the Cantons, not take away from them. Again, you just have to experiment and find out what makes your Canton’s sound best with the additional bass from the Jamo. The key is for both to sound as seamless as possible, and not to know there is bass coming from the sub specifically. In other words ‘disappear’. If the Jamo is obvious, you have work to do with placement and settings.
I am being extremely basic here.
As far as the RCA inputs, does your preamp or integrated have RCA outputs for this purpose? Does it have LFE? Personally, for music, I would disregard the LFE completely. And simply do as Paul describes, and which you referred to.
You will have many other suggestions, but I would start as suggested above. Just don’t not lose the majority of your Cantons capability, actually you would be using less that half if you took out the jumper.