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CHT-Q Series User’s Manual - 9
CROSSOVERS
Receiver/Processor Subwoofer Outputs
The Velodyne subwoofer is designed to operate using the full range audio signal for input when using the built-
in crossover. Many home theater processors/receivers (Dolby Digital™, DTS™, THX™) have a “subwoofer
out”jack(sometimeslabeled“LFE”)thatisinternallyltered,settableatthereceiver/processor,anddesigned
tobeusedwithapoweredsubwoofer.Insomeinstallations,itmaybebenecialtouseBOTHtheVelodyne
crossoverandthereceiver/processorcrossover,resultinginasteeperultimatecrossoverslope.Insomerare
cases,combiningbothanexternalcrossoverandtheoneinternaltothesubwoofermayresultinlowoutput
and increased noise. In these installations you may need to bypass the crossover in either the processor or your
CHT-Qsubwoofer,orsimplysettingonecrossovertoahigherfrequency(suchas120Hz)willrestoremaximum
performance.
(Refer to Figure 4 Line-Level Subwoofer Connection Diagram and Figure 5 Speaker-Level Subwoofer Connection
Diagram, pages 10 and 11 for connection diagrams.)