Hi,
I have a question regarding the 340s. Let’s say you have three setups. First, you have them connected as “Large” to a receiver, with a subwoofer. Second, same as above but the monitors set as “Small” with a crossover suitably chosen. Third, have them connected to a stereo amplifier with no subwoofer.
I know that the first setup is obviously wrong. To quote David, “running the 340s full range will distress the entire bandwidth of the woofer section, up until about 3Khz”, and “for optimum (always recommended) performance, the speakers MUST be run with a minimum of a 65hz high pass filter (“small”)”. But then what about listening them without a subwoofer, the third option? Should I understand that their performance without a sub is to a certain point degraded because they’re trying to reproduce the full range? To what extent?
Virgil