Canton Movie 80 crossover points

Rule of thumb for setting up subs. When you can no longer hear where the bass is coming from in your listening room then you have set it up correctly. The Crossover setting varies from sub to sub but 80HZ is a good setting to start off & then adjust accordingly.

This is what I usually do, but I'm certain Lucid will be along shortly to prove what I said is complete cobblers. :p
 
Lol @ Grimley's "cobblers" comment.


The current Canton 75, 95, 135 and 165 models all use the same satellite speakers. The specs are:

Front: 120...25.000 Hz
Center: 120...25.000 Hz
Surround: 120...25.000 Hz

So, at a guess I'd say it's likely that the Movie 80 system uses something very similar too. The Canton page you linked to suggests that the crossover point for the centre and surrounds is either 5 Hz or 5000 Hz depending how you read it. That is cobblers. There's no small satellite that can get down to 5 Hz, and no earthly reason why you'd need a crossover point between the sub and satellites at 5000 Hz. I think (and this is reading between the lines) that 5000 Hz is the crossover point between the sat's midrange driver and its tweeter. Someone screwed up on the web page and put the wrong info down.

Since 120Hz is the lower limit of the centre and four surround speakers then it makes sense to use a crossover frequency point a little higher than their "ragged edge" number. Go for 130Hz or maybe 140Hz.

Set everything to match - sub crossover point and amp's crossover point. Setting the sub's own crossover higher won't (or shouldn't) make any difference since the amp is filtering the frequency of the sub signal before it gets to the sub anyway.
 
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Brill, thanks for that!

The sub sounds rather bassy at times, do I need to change the volume 'knob' on the subwoofer? Currently at 0db.
 
Yes.

Adjust the volume to blend in with the satellites. If it's booming then it's far too loud.
 
lucid said:
Lol @ Grimley's "cobblers" comment.


The current Canton 75, 95, 135 and 165 models all use the same satellite speakers. The specs are:

Front: 120...25.000 Hz
Center: 120...25.000 Hz
Surround: 120...25.000 Hz

So, at a guess I'd say it's likely that the Movie 80 system uses something very similar too. The Canton page you linked to suggests that the crossover point for the centre and surrounds is either 5 Hz or 5000 Hz depending how you read it. That is cobblers. There's no small satellite that can get down to 5 Hz, and no earthly reason why you'd need a crossover point between the sub and satellites at 5000 Hz. I think (and this is reading between the lines) that 5000 Hz is the crossover point between the sat's midrange driver and its tweeter. Someone screwed up on the web page and put the wrong info down.

Since 120Hz is the lower limit of the centre and four surround speakers then it makes sense to use a crossover frequency point a little higher than their "ragged edge" number. Go for 130Hz or maybe 140Hz.

Set everything to match - sub crossover point and amp's crossover point. Setting the sub's own crossover higher won't (or shouldn't) make any difference since the amp is filtering the frequency of the sub signal before it gets to the sub anyway.
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good advice apart from setting the sub crossover point and amp crossover point to be the same - that would not work very well

crossover point is not a step filter -its a gradiented one - so if you set both to be the same you will be filtering parts of the frequency spectrum effectively twice (to some extent or another)

if you set crossover point on amplifier - set crossover point on subwoofer as high as it will go

:)
 
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