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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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audionoobie
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I've got a pair of Rel Ti/5's in a 11' x 13' room. I have them placed on the outside of my speakers. I'm currently running a pair of ATC SCM19v2's but occasionally swap in my Maggie .7's. 10 - 12 clicks on both the volume and crossover seem to get the job done for me. 

paulcreed OP
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Roose, “put there garbage out” sorry I don’t get it. The subs are set up correct, I did list everything first post, 42hz, if you need speakers there Pulsars, reference 3a reflectors, I put room size and asked if people if they would like to put there set up it would be nice. 
 

My other system doesn’t need subs. When I was setting mine up I just wondered what others like. If there numbers, room and speakers were close to mine I think it would be interesting to know. I’m not trying to match others settings. Thanks everyone’s for there insight on how many clicks you used. 

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There are tools you can use to precisely calibrate your subwoofer(s).

But, here is my take on this:

Music is more directional as the frequency increases. And, more omnidirectional as bass decreases. Natural bass notes have harmonics. The deepest bass tones will be directed to the sub, harmonics will find their way into the mains. Your ears and brain try to detect where the bass is originating from, which is going to be the higher frequencies in the spectrum. The goal here is to try to trick your brain into thinking the bass is coming from the mains and not the boxes located somewhere else in the room. This requires a combination of setting the crossover frequencies and subwoofer output to reach the best result. Too much gain and/or too high a crossover frequency will direct your ears to the boxes that contain the woofers. Depending on how loud you play, I try to place the responsibility on the mains to play as low as they can play and still sound clean, undistorted, and effortless and set the sub crossover accordingly. This gives the smoothest transition from low bass to the mid bass and makes your mains appear to magically have a couple 12" woofers in them.

It’s trial and error. The number of "clicks" required is difficult to predict. Good luck.

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