Woofer Amp

[jimbones]

i  recently decided to go the BiAmp route with my speakers. So I purchased a mindsp and a Crown XLS 1002. This Crown powers a woofer (not a sub per se)  Well it hasn't worked so well to this point. The power amp sounds horrible. It sounds like the input sensitivity is low as I can't get much out of the amp even though it is rated at over 200wpc. It has no b**ls. Any ideas ?

[richidoo]

1. Cabinet alignment?
2. Break In amp/woofer
3. RTFM
4. dsp EQ

[HAL]

Did you set the input sensitivity to 0.775V for high gain?

Are the gain controls all the way up?

[jimbones]

Did you set the input sensitivity to 0.775V for high gain?

Are the gain controls all the way up?

Yes squared 

[jimbones]

1. Cabinet alignment?
2. Break In amp/woofer
3. RTFM
4. dsp EQ

1 sealed
2 woofer is 4 years old and is in the same physical config for that time other than a passive xo.
3 hmmm?
4 minidsp sucks, zero support. I will never buy another one of their products.

[jimbones]

making some progress. I was able to find gain settings on the mindsp. That helped. Now I am experimenting with the frequencies and slope. The problem is that everytime I change the  slope I have to consider the polarity in relation to the mid/tweeter. been swapping then polarity all day  

[richidoo]

You'll get it Jim!! Speakers rarely jump to. You gotta fight for every inch.

[HAL]

Jim,
Are you using something like Room EQ Wizard to make the speaker measurements?  Or are you using the UMIK-1 with miniDSP?

[jimbones]

Jim,
Are you using something like Room EQ Wizard to make the speaker measurements?  Or are you using the UMIK-1 with miniDSP?

Omnimic