I have ran these speakers at 80hz up until now when i got the upgrade bug recently and decided to look for newer speakers with more midbass slam. I sold the speakers off and I bought a pair of bookshelf speakers with a 6.5" woofer and has a f3 of 48hz and f10 of 43hz. I decided to radically downsize my system as I was going to buy bookshelf speakers that didn't really need an amp, a receiver would drive them fine. As a point of reference, my subwoofer is a custom build Adire Audio Tempest 15" subwoofer in a 8cf 17hz ported box, driven by a 380w plate amp. All that size was going to waste and the speakers crossed over at 80hz made those monoliths sound no different than a bookshelf speaker, although they did play louder. I had an amp for each channel in my theater, so I had a lot of gear. I also had them biamped with over 400watts of pure power. main speakers that used 5 drivers and had a f3 of 30hz +- 2db, and f10 of 24hz( Mirage M-3si). This very reason was the main factor in downsizing my 130lb ea. Other than the fact that the 80hz setting relieves the stress on the receiver or amp that you are using to drive your main speakers, and it is also allows consumers to use smaller size speakers and not miss out on all the low bass as long as their speakers played low enough to blend with a decent subwoofer. I always thought it sounded really great that way(nothing to compare it too) and that it was also the standard that most followed for optimal sound. I have been using the standard 80hz crossover for all of my speakers that i have ever had, large floorstanding speakers to bookshelfs and everything in between.
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