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REL subwoofer crossover question

Hope someone can help me out with this.....I am somewhat familiar with how the crossover settings work on REL subs (2 Brittania B2) but don't know if they differ from other manufacturers such as Velodyne. My question is should I be hearing bass frequencies in the 60-80 hz range when I have the crossover setting at the A 1 position (which according to the manual rolls of at 22 HZ? I'm not too familiar with how the crossover rolls off, but I'm surprised that I can't get any rolloff below 80HZ. Is this room nodes/issues or what? I have played a little with placement and all but haven't gone crazy with them. I am using a single RCA for the left one out of my preamp and vice versa. (I haven't tried the neutrik connections yet, have to purchase if the are truly better). Any thoughts? Thanks.
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drewfidelity
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I believe that the REL subwoofer has one input for low pass RCA input and another identical looking input for LFE input that is crossed over at 80 Hz. If I remember correctly I had to take my left and right channel subwoofer output and use a Y connector and plug the Y connector into the single low pass input. It was an older REL subwoofer, but that may be the reason why you are getting 80 Hz output even though you have the crossover set at the A1 position. Take a look at the back of the subwoofer and see if you may have one your cables connected to the LFE input. Hope that this helps.
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zephyr24069
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Drew: I think you are right....
wolf_garcia
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Neutrik Speakon plugs are ridiculously easy to install on a proper cable (any decent 4 wire speaker cable should work fine using 3 of the wires of course), and I've found that method seems to work best with my groovy old REL.
drewfidelity
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I agree with you Wolf, but some amplifiers, differential balanced amplifiers in particular, will not allow this connection to work properly. Not exactly sure why that is the case, but I am sure one of our more technical friends can spell it out.

Hey Zephyr: I hope that you were able to fix the issue. I only know about the LFE input because I did the exact same thing you may have done when I hooked up my first REL. I just got an R505 delivered yesterday and am looking forward to hooking it up later tonight.
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daveyf
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I had to talk to the ARC tech support about the hook-up with my REL T5 and my ARC D70Mk2. The ARC' s of this vintage and possibly later, use the 4ohm tap as a ground and therefore hooking up the REL was not obvious. I was told to hook up the left and right cable from the REL to the left and right 8ohm tap of the amp and the ground cable to the 4ohm tap. The speaker cables are hooked up to the 4ohm taps and the 0 ohm taps....Haven't tried this yet, but will report back after I have hooked up in this manner.
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