oilerfan4lyfe
09-13-2018, 08:40 PM
Need a little hand understanding home audio...I've searched around but am still confused.
I bought a pair of Polk RtiA9s and reading online everyone says they need a lot of juice, most people suggest getting something like a Crown XLS1502 to drive the lower end and to use a regular 7.1 receiver to drive the mid range and tweeters. If I go this route, does the Crown automatically feed juice once the speakers get a signal from my regular receiver? Also, how would this hook up? Would speaker wire go from a pre-out on my receiver to the Crown, then to one of the connectors on the Polk speakers? Then another speaker wire would go directly from the 7.1 receiver to the mid/tweeter connector on the speaker?
Would this be that much better than just getting a 9.1 receiver and using two outputs from the receiver to go into the two connectors on the speakers? So I'd have 4 wires going from the receiver to one speaker instead of two and I'd disconnect the little clip that joins the connectors on the speakers. I think this is called bi-amping.
Finally, is getting 2 subs diagonal to one another actually better than just getting one good sub? It would be a 14x11 room in a basement with nothing but walls in it.
TIA
I bought a pair of Polk RtiA9s and reading online everyone says they need a lot of juice, most people suggest getting something like a Crown XLS1502 to drive the lower end and to use a regular 7.1 receiver to drive the mid range and tweeters. If I go this route, does the Crown automatically feed juice once the speakers get a signal from my regular receiver? Also, how would this hook up? Would speaker wire go from a pre-out on my receiver to the Crown, then to one of the connectors on the Polk speakers? Then another speaker wire would go directly from the 7.1 receiver to the mid/tweeter connector on the speaker?
Would this be that much better than just getting a 9.1 receiver and using two outputs from the receiver to go into the two connectors on the speakers? So I'd have 4 wires going from the receiver to one speaker instead of two and I'd disconnect the little clip that joins the connectors on the speakers. I think this is called bi-amping.
Finally, is getting 2 subs diagonal to one another actually better than just getting one good sub? It would be a 14x11 room in a basement with nothing but walls in it.
TIA