What is everyone's take on the best way to integrate subs for 2-channel?
Most of my experience with audio has been in the home theater space and I've grown accustomed to having high-pass and low-pass filters built-in for setting crossovers on my a/v processors and I also typically have a miniDSP sitting in front of my dual subs.
Up to this point, I've done all my 2-channel listening without subwoofers, but it kills me that I have dual 16" subs just sitting in the same room where I do my music listening. I've tried simply connecting my DAC to my subs and then setting a low-pass filter on my subs before going to my amp... this just doesn't sound right to me though compared to what I've grown accustomed to with home theater processors.
I've been considering giving the JL Audio CR-1 active crossover a try... has anyone ever used one of these before? I'm thinking that I could run my DAC L/R channels into the JL CR-1, JL CR-1 sub XLR into my miniDSP 4x10 HD (my AVP sub output into this as well) and L/R out into a 2x1 XLR switch (my AVP L/R channels would also connect to the switch), and the switches output into my amp. Seems a little over the top, but I figure that it would allow me to proper bass management for both 2-channel & home theater.
Thoughts?
Most of my experience with audio has been in the home theater space and I've grown accustomed to having high-pass and low-pass filters built-in for setting crossovers on my a/v processors and I also typically have a miniDSP sitting in front of my dual subs.
Up to this point, I've done all my 2-channel listening without subwoofers, but it kills me that I have dual 16" subs just sitting in the same room where I do my music listening. I've tried simply connecting my DAC to my subs and then setting a low-pass filter on my subs before going to my amp... this just doesn't sound right to me though compared to what I've grown accustomed to with home theater processors.
I've been considering giving the JL Audio CR-1 active crossover a try... has anyone ever used one of these before? I'm thinking that I could run my DAC L/R channels into the JL CR-1, JL CR-1 sub XLR into my miniDSP 4x10 HD (my AVP sub output into this as well) and L/R out into a 2x1 XLR switch (my AVP L/R channels would also connect to the switch), and the switches output into my amp. Seems a little over the top, but I figure that it would allow me to proper bass management for both 2-channel & home theater.
Thoughts?