I wouldn't put a lot of stock in this article. I haven't made it to the second page and...
"But can it be too big? With today's HDTVs, not really, says Polk. "
I love generalizations. Your TV can certainly be too big, even at 1080p.
"If you're using anything bigger than small bookshelf speakers, set your front speakers to 'large' and use the sub's crossover controls to fine-tune the sound. Receiver crossovers are generic. Your subwoofer's crossover is designed to match well with the rest of your system."
I don't even know what that means. "Generic"? Setting front speakers to large, even if they could handle 40HZ which many towers can, will only cause them to strain at any program material below 40HZ, of which there is plenty, which could easily be handled by a sub. Maybe for the superbowl, it wouldn't matter, but it's certainly uneccessary, and for movies, just plain wrong.
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I wouldn't put a lot of stock in this article. I haven't made it to the second page and...
"But can it be too big? With today's HDTVs, not really, says Polk. "
I love generalizations. Your TV can certainly be too big, even at 1080p.
"If you're using anything bigger than small bookshelf speakers, set your front speakers to 'large' and use the sub's crossover controls to fine-tune the sound. Receiver crossovers are generic. Your subwoofer's crossover is designed to match well with the rest of your system."
I don't even know what that means. "Generic"? Setting front speakers to large, even if they could handle 40HZ which many towers can, will only cause them to strain at any program material below 40HZ, of which there is plenty, which could easily be handled by a sub. Maybe for the superbowl, it wouldn't matter, but it's certainly uneccessary, and for movies, just plain wrong.