Yamaha YHT-450 Home Theater in a Box speaker setup

[David Harper]

The 5740 receiver can be set to work with "Large", "Small" or "None" front,
middle and rear speakers. Bass Out can be set to Subwoofer, Front or Both.
Bass Crossover can be set from 40-200 Hz. The SW015 subwoofer can have its
High Cutoff set from 50-150 Hz, and its Phase set Normal or Reverse. This
is all wonderful if you are connecting all this to a 3rd party speaker
system. But what should be the setting to connect the receiver and
subwoofer to the *included* speaker system (AP4400). Seems like there
should be a note somewhere explaining that!

Any other setup advice? Just picked up one of the systems last week at
Fry's (Houston) for $300.

- David Harper

[Jeremy Gillow]

Well the specs say the fronts can do down to 50 Hz and the center/effects
can do down to 80 Hz. I personally would set all speakers to Small, the
bass out to "subwoofer" and the bass crossover to 100 or 120 Hz, whichever
one sounds better to you. 80 Hz will result in too much lost bass
information for the smaller speakers. The subwoofer high cutoff should be
maxed out at 150 Hz since the receiver will be taking care of that anyway.
The phase should be set depending on how it blends with the main speakers.
Pick whichever setting gives you the most bass output.

If you want to read the specs for the included speakers look up NS-BP4500;
it's the model number for the speaker system without the 5740 receiver.

Jeremy


"David Harper" <dharper@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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> The 5740 receiver can be set to work with "Large", "Small" or "None"
front,
> middle and rear speakers. Bass Out can be set to Subwoofer, Front or
Both.
> Bass Crossover can be set from 40-200 Hz. The SW015 subwoofer can have
its
> High Cutoff set from 50-150 Hz, and its Phase set Normal or Reverse. This
> is all wonderful if you are connecting all this to a 3rd party speaker
> system. But what should be the setting to connect the receiver and
> subwoofer to the *included* speaker system (AP4400). Seems like there
> should be a note somewhere explaining that!
>
> Any other setup advice? Just picked up one of the systems last week at
> Fry's (Houston) for $300.
>
> - David Harper
>

"David Harper" <dharper@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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> The 5740 receiver can be set to work with "Large", "Small" or "None"
front,
> middle and rear speakers. Bass Out can be set to Subwoofer, Front or
Both.
> Bass Crossover can be set from 40-200 Hz. The SW015 subwoofer can have
its
> High Cutoff set from 50-150 Hz, and its Phase set Normal or Reverse. This
> is all wonderful if you are connecting all this to a 3rd party speaker
> system. But what should be the setting to connect the receiver and
> subwoofer to the *included* speaker system (AP4400). Seems like there
> should be a note somewhere explaining that!
>
> Any other setup advice? Just picked up one of the systems last week at
> Fry's (Houston) for $300.
>
> - David Harper
Check your sub and if it has a crossover bypass set it to bypass and use the
receiver to set the cutoff.
Use reverse phase, but you can try both, you might like normal better.
Finally set your bass out to sub unless your fronts are large, if they are
you might want to shoot some bass to them, too, by selecting "both"

>

[David Harper]

"Jeremy Gillow" <jgillow@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I personally would set all speakers to Small, the
> bass out to "subwoofer" and the bass crossover
> to 100 or 120 Hz, whichever one sounds better
> to you. 80 Hz will result in too much lost bass
> information for the smaller speakers. The
> subwoofer high cutoff should be maxed out
> at 150 Hz since the receiver will be taking care
> of that anyway.

I tend to agree with your recommendations. It is my understanding that the
receiver will be taking care of *all* the subwoofer bass crossover duties
for *all* channels...in *all* modes (Movie DTS, CD Stereo, FM Radio, etc.).
I could not understand why one would ever want Bass Out set to "Both" in
this case. Unless, of course, it just sounds better to someone that way!

Setting the crossover to 100 or 120 Hz seems too high to me because this is
getting into the range where the frequencies are no longer non-directional.
However, I see your point about "lost bass" from the surround speakers that
are only spec'ed down to 90 Hz at -10 db.

<steve99@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Check your sub and if it has a crossover bypass
> set it to bypass and use the receiver to set the cutoff.

It doesn't have a cutoff, but it can be set as high as 150 Hz, which - I
would think - should work equally as well if the receiver cutoff is set to
around 90 Hz.

Thanks for the advice. Still experimenting with a zillion permutations...

- David Harper