SF Cremona Auditors & crossover hz??

[KingRT]

What do you think (experience) the best x-over is, for the Auditors and JL subs?
I currently (today) use 80hz.

But some have suggested going higher.(100hz to 120hz)
Others, the distributer, says cross low, like they do with the REL subs.

Its a music only, 2 channel system.

Thanks

[Sonus]

Originally Posted by KingRT

What do you think (experience) the best x-over is, for the Auditors and JL subs?
I currently (today) use 80hz.

But some have suggested going higher.(100hz to 120hz)
Others, the distributer, says cross low, like they do with the REL subs.

Its a music only, 2 channel system.

Thanks

Cross low,
If you can below 50HZ.

[Onemug]

I agree with Sonus, go low.
A 80hz crossover (or higher) is not a brickwall. You will have sound coming out of the sub at 160hz and 320hz, less and less as the octave increases. How much depends on the slope of the x/o. Let your ears be the judge. I found that lower works best with my Guarneris.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by KingRT

What do you think (experience) the best x-over is, for the Auditors and JL subs?
I currently (today) use 80hz.

But some have suggested going higher.(100hz to 120hz)
Others, the distributer, says cross low, like they do with the REL subs.

Its a music only, 2 channel system.

Thanks

Without an active crossover, I would try to cross over low since you can't control your speaker's bottom end and the interaction they have with your room.

[ruffoc]

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[KingRT]

Originally Posted by ruffoc

Be careful. You will never get your Auditors to sound like a full range speaker with a sub. Adding a sub will help extend what the Auditors do well. Crossing over too high will kill the sound of our Auditors - things will get murky. I cross my REL sub in the high 20s and turn the volume up. the sub has energy at the 60 hz level but the key here is that I doesn’t overpower what comes out of the auditor.

I have an external X-over.
So is the consensus to cross low, 50hz or less??

As stated, I am at 80hz now.
My ears can't decide for me. Every source has me moving the x-over for a day, then I think it sounds better somewhere else.
I am a serial x-over changer...I need therapy..

So I will take those who have better experience then myself, and leave it.