What is your other equipment? And what settings are you using now?

U have to give more details if you expect the forum to be able to help you.

This post has been edited by jchong: Nov 15 2010, 08:20 AM

Ok, so your sub lacks the "solid" sound you want. First you have to determine if it could be the sub itself (i.e. not high performance enough) or your placement.

A sub is not "plug and play". To get the best out of a sub you have to experiment with placement. Please check out some of the articles on sub placement/positioning on the net. Then experiment with moving your sub around. Like azbro suggested try putting the sub in a corner (this helps to boost output).

If after some experimentation your sub still not giving you what you need, then perhaps it's time to upgrade to a better sub.

This post has been edited by jchong: Nov 17 2010, 08:25 AM

I think azxel meant is whether you are playing music from bluray, CD, mp3, flac, etc. As you know some are lossless, some are lossy.

Personally, while there is some difference I think those differences are minor (or maybe I don't have golden ears like others ).

As for down firing sub, there are many threads about this on other forums:

http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/hom...g-sideways.html
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/...r-benefits.html
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=803787
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/...ide-firing.html

This post has been edited by jchong: Nov 17 2010, 11:00 AM

I think the Velo CHT-10Q is about 2.3k.

There's actually an old thread about it: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1257653

Anyway, before you purchase always go and audition first.

Wah, got trade in offer some more from CT Seong.

Oh, everybody thought you're offering that price for CHT-10Q.

Just to clarify...

In a movie soundtrack bass info can be found in 2 places: (a) the normal speakers channel (front, center, surrounds) and (b) the LFE channel (for the sub).

Info in the LFE channel will always go to the sub. So even if you set the speakers to L the sub will still play the bass coming from the LFE channel.

Once you set the speakers to S (and if you can select the crossover freq) then that means the bass info from those speakers will be redirected to the sub. Meaning the sub will now play the bass from the LFE channel + bass from the other speakers. So for example if you set speakers to S and crossover to 80Hz, then any signal in the front speakers which is 80Hz and above will be played by the speaker, below that will be played by the sub (remember the sub will still play all the signals in the LFE channel).

This assumes the sub is capable of reproducing freq up to 160Hz. Some can, some can't. Like the CHT-12Q and 10Q their limit is up to 120Hz only.

Wah, you're selling off the whole set? Thought you just wanted to sell the sub.