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REL owners, how many clicks on your gain and crossover

I just bought a couple rel subs and wondering where others are setting their dial. I know everyone’s room is different but just curious, if you would like to mention room size and where you place it that would be nice too.
 

I’m using monitors that go down to 40 or 42 in a 12x14 room and have subs right behind monitors on the inside for now, only received subs yesterday. So I’m still breaking them in, have no clue how long subs take. 
 

Place I bought subs advised to just run one hot wire(red) to amp yellow is not being used. Is this right am I losing gain or power by loss of yellow wires gain into sub. I’ve never used a sub for 2 channel it use to be taboo. Oh well I’m in now.

paulcreed
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You’re better off following what is suggested in the manual, it works very well, everyone’s set up will be a different than yours.

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lak
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Check out the REL videos on YouTube, they will walk you through the setup and tunning of your subs. As mentioned above each setup can and will be a bit different.

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bigtwin
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REL recommends disconnecting the yellow wire only if you find there is just too much volume coming from the subs.  Leaving the one wire off lowers the signal and that is the only reason.  I would try the standard hook up first.  There's a reason they put three wires on the cable.  Cheers.  As for gain, it's trial and error.  Every system is different.  

zlone
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I have a 7i and have wondered if I added one if it made sense to connect the red for one of them and the yellow for the other? Anyway, I think it is good advice to follow REL until you need to do something different. 
 

As for placement, I have a small room, and I found it best to pull the sub out even with the face of my speakers which are out from the wall. Otherwise, I would get a bit of boom. 

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