Re: [LAU] On the fly bass downmixing to mono (mpd or alsa)?

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 09:59:01AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:

> The existing three pairs of speakers are the in-ceiling speakers I've been
> talking about. The fourth pair of speakers will be traditional
> full-range speakers. That's one reason why I want to send the
> full-range signal to the power amp (and in turn the speaker selector).

If these in-ceiling speakers are small ones (that really need a sub)
they won't appreciate high level LF signals they can't reproduce.
In the best case this will result in distortion, in the worst you
could easily damage them.

Ciao,

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