Should you set your SPEAKERS to LARGE?

Have you ever wondered if you should set your speakers to large in hopes that you can get better bass performance from your audio system? Well then I have a video for you! In this video, I’ll talk about my experience trying to set this up for myself on my system, what issues I ran into and if I think it’s even worth it to even try to get this all to work together.

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TIMESTAMPS
Intro – 00:00
New gear, new (sometimes old) questions! – 00:22
This is NOT a tutorial video – 00:57
Why does this topic come up at all? – 01:36
What is bass management? – 01:44
What happens when you set this to small – 01:58
What happens when you change this setting to large? – 02:25
You’ll also need to enable LFEMain – 02:43
Why would someone want to set their speakers to large? – 03:03
Lower frequencies need more power – 03:52
REW measurements – 04:31
Baseline/reference measurements – 04:46
Setting Front speakers to LARGE – 07:26
Turning on LFEMain – 09:34
Crossover testing with Large and LFEMain – 10:09
LET… ME… IN!!!!! – 10:38
Looking at all LFEMain measurements – 11:13
My final tweaked/optimized response when speakers set to Large plus LFEMain enabled – 11:58
Comparing baseline to speakers set to large/LFEMain engaged – 12:32
Why did I make this video? – 14:09

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