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home stereo setup help

Sep 3, 2005 5:00AM PDT

ive got a decent home stereo setup and i recently purchased a subwoofer to beef up my lower end. however, i have completely lost my midrance, and instead have only a deep low end and really crisp treble...but its only noticeable with music. movies and videogames sound awesome. heres my setup:

Harmon/Kardon HK3375 stereo reciever
Sony CDP-C235 5 disc changer
Sony TC-C5 5 cassette changer
Sony PS2
Nintendo Gamecube
Realistic Minimus-77 speakers
Sony SA-WM250 active subwoofer

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Sep 4, 2005 10:41PM PDT

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home stereo setup help
Sep 7, 2005 3:42AM PDT

There are are a couple of way to hook up a powered sub.
How did you hook up yours. John

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home stereo setup help
Sep 7, 2005 12:10PM PDT

directly to the powered sub output on the reciever

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More accurately ...
Sep 8, 2005 1:49AM PDT

is your receiver speaker set up reading all your speakers as "Small" or large. Also does your midrange audio return if you disconnect the sub?

grim

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speaker set up
Sep 8, 2005 6:06AM PDT

hmm, good question. the speakers are just connected to the speaker 1 terminals in the rear of the receiver, and the manual says nothing about setting the speakers to small or large. there is a knob on the back of the subwoofer that controls the cutoff frequency of the sub. ive tried messing with it but there has been no change in the midrange.

turning off the subwoofer while leaving it connected produced straight treble, and disconnecting the subwoofer produced the same level of treble with some mid/low range sound but not much.

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the HK3375 according to online specs...
Sep 8, 2005 5:02PM PDT

is a 2 x 75 watt receiver. I'm not sure what hook ups are on the receiver but you can take 2 actions

1st - run one set of left and right speaker wires from your receiver's main speaker outputs to the left / right connections labled "IN" on the sub. Then take a second set of left/right cables and run to your speakers. adjust how much bass you want from the sub by using the cut off filter and volume adjustment with the level dial. using this method may effect the midrange level from your speakers.

second - take an single RCA cable and plug it into the subwoofer out put on the back of your receiver and then plug into the RCA input on the sub. This should not effect the mid range.

In either case refer to the receivers manual ... not just the sub manual in making the correct adjustments to your equipment.

try this out. I assume you are using a stereo cd to check on the performance of your equipment. Try all the various connections you can make including just running the speakers by them selves to test what's going on. Thats all I can think of without actually being there.

grim

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trying a few things
Sep 8, 2005 10:37PM PDT

i was going to try that, running the speakers through the sub...i think ill do that today. hopefully my sound quality will improve Silly

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new set up
Sep 9, 2005 5:58AM PDT

i wired the speakers through the subwoofer and it worked, sort of. the midrange has appeared and music and the gamecube sounds awesome. however, audio coming out of the PS2 in both video games and DVDs doesnt sound that hot. strange.

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(NT) (NT) how are you hooking up the dvd player?
Sep 9, 2005 10:57AM PDT
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I imagine...
Sep 9, 2005 11:15AM PDT

you are using RCA cables to hook up the dvd player and the PS2 ...so... do each have its own input on the receiver or are you chaining it through another piece of equipment ?

Anyway, I think your sound problems are based on the menu setup you have for both pieces of equipment. You need to make sure that the settings are for stereo only... and also make sure you do not have any dynamic range compression circuitry turned on in the dvd player. double check both of these and I think your problems may go away.

grim

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ps2/dvd hookup
Sep 10, 2005 7:36AM PDT

yeah, its RCAs directy from the back of the ps2 to the reciever...ive been messing with some settings here and there trying to optimize it with some progress