Gentlemen- I have a bit of a newbie pet project I’m working on configuring at the moment that I was kinda curious to ask those here more knowledgeable in this area what they thought about it.
I should start by saying that I am not a great audiophile by any stretch, but like kucor88 and other’s here I do get distinct pleasure out of making what I have work, before necessarily running out to buy the latest and greatest. I am engineer by trade but really more importantly I am a bit of a born tinkerer, that believes in the saying related in.. "shopping in ones own closet First.”
In any event- I have now (2)two Bose Acoustimass speaker set’s. One that includes just two(2) of the Redline cube satellite speaker pairs, that I bought many years ago and one other that I purchased used more recently that includes (3)three of the Redline series satellite speaker pairs. *Each of course comes with one of its own original Bose sub enclosures, that also doubles as the system's crossover hub. *My thought is to use both systems- powered by my dad’s older but much appreciated/ cherished Marantz 4 channel amp and receiver unit, which I am already using, but doing so now with the one Acoustimass system set up normally on one end- driving its own 2 or 3 Redline speaker pairs by themselves through the Acoustimass crossover sub system, as per it’s standard configuration while possibly experimenting with the other in allowing the second crossover sub to run a pair of JBL Control 25t’s instead of the standard Bose Redline cub speaker units.
I am running these Control 25t’s currently directly from the amp’s second channel, partly because of curiosity on how they would sound together with the Bose system and partly because of how they fit in the room itself and while I imagine there is likely any number of different ways to lay this out I was curious how these two direct JBL speakers would complement the system as a whole, hoping I guess they would help fill areas cut or phased out by the more strictly controlled Bose satellites.
What I found is actual quite opposite. The JBL’s hooked up directly the amp as they are now do not sound great (even with what I expect is a reasonably fair crossover built within their own little enclosures) and seem to be struggling with the presumably wider host of frequencies they are now being asked to produce without any other form of frequency cutting or tweaking. It was to this point I was hoping to borrow favor now from the otherwise unused/unoccupied second Bose Accoustimass sub- crossover hub, to use with the JBL’s satellites instead of the standard Bose cubes.
First question- was to ask what you guy’s thought of what to me seems like a simple enough idea at the surface, but of course leaving out tuning and items like impedance concerns.?
The other question I can think to ask is how you guys/gals thought best to configure this set-up?
Obviously everything would be wired up through the Acoustimass sub unit, as per normal, but I wonder how best to set-up the JBL Control 25t’s to cope with this arrangement? What Wattage setting I may want to invoke and if I should possibly do anything with the internal transformer or crossover mechanism likely already inside the Control 25t’s now in doing so..?
Gentlemen- I have a bit of a newbie pet project I’m working on configuring at the moment that I was kinda curious to ask those here more knowledgeable in this area what they thought about it.
I should start by saying that I am not a great audiophile by any stretch, but like kucor88 and other’s here I do get distinct pleasure out of making what I have work, before necessarily running out to buy the latest and greatest. I am engineer by trade but really more importantly I am a bit of a born tinkerer, that believes in the saying related in.. "shopping in ones own closet First.”
In any event- I have now (2)two Bose Acoustimass speaker set’s. One that includes just two(2) of the Redline cube satellite speaker pairs, that I bought many years ago and one other that I purchased used more recently that includes (3)three of the Redline series satellite speaker pairs. *Each of course comes with one of its own original Bose sub enclosures, that also doubles as the system's crossover hub. *My thought is to use both systems- powered by my dad’s older but much appreciated/ cherished Marantz 4 channel amp and receiver unit, which I am already using, but doing so now with the one Acoustimass system set up normally on one end- driving its own 2 or 3 Redline speaker pairs by themselves through the Acoustimass crossover sub system, as per it’s standard configuration while possibly experimenting with the other in allowing the second crossover sub to run a pair of JBL Control 25t’s instead of the standard Bose Redline cub speaker units.
I am running these Control 25t’s currently directly from the amp’s second channel, partly because of curiosity on how they would sound together with the Bose system and partly because of how they fit in the room itself and while I imagine there is likely any number of different ways to lay this out I was curious how these two direct JBL speakers would complement the system as a whole, hoping I guess they would help fill areas cut or phased out by the more strictly controlled Bose satellites.
What I found is actual quite opposite. The JBL’s hooked up directly the amp as they are now do not sound great (even with what I expect is a reasonably fair crossover built within their own little enclosures) and seem to be struggling with the presumably wider host of frequencies they are now being asked to produce without any other form of frequency cutting or tweaking. It was to this point I was hoping to borrow favor now from the otherwise unused/unoccupied second Bose Accoustimass sub- crossover hub, to use with the JBL’s satellites instead of the standard Bose cubes.
First question- was to ask what you guy’s thought of what to me seems like a simple enough idea at the surface, but of course leaving out tuning and items like impedance concerns.?
The other question I can think to ask is how you guys/gals thought best to configure this set-up?
Obviously everything would be wired up through the Acoustimass sub unit, as per normal, but I wonder how best to set-up the JBL Control 25t’s to cope with this arrangement? What Wattage setting I may want to invoke and if I should possibly do anything with the internal transformer or crossover mechanism likely already inside the Control 25t’s now in doing so..?