Polk's response is confusing, to say the least.
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Originally Posted by
rayh78
I did finally get a response from POLK but dont know if to trust them. see below. does it make sense?
"Actually having the RM6600 satellites set to “large” is correct. The satellites contain a built in high pass filter preventing them from playing sounds below 120Hz. The problem when setting them to “small” is that the filtering imposed by the receiver would cause “double filtering” with the speaker’s built in filter causing a gap between the upper frequencies produced by the sub and the lower capability of the satellites."
What they ar esaying is that no matter what you set them to, they will not, under any circumstances, produce anything lower than 120hz.
Point in fact is that they are "small" speakers
The onus now is to assure that you can set your receiver's crossover to 120 hz. I don't know your receiver (Samsung isn't one of the big players in that market) so you should check your manual to see how to accomplish this.
BUT...
If your Polk setup is designed so that the front mains are connected to the subwoofer, then all bets are off. Yo would connect your receiver's front R/L speaker terminals to the sub's speaker inputs and your front R/L mains to the sub's corrosponding speaker outputs.
You should tell your receiver (again, check your manual) that you have NO sub and, on the receiver, set your speakers (the front's at least) to LARGE. Then, what Polk said will make some sense.
[edit] Looking at your speaker's manual (see here) on page 3, they recommend the second scenario. You won't be able to use the self-adjusting feature in the recei ver then.
If you're really concerned about getting the "best" sound, I suggest trying them both ways to see which sounds better. You may actually prefer the Polk method, and that's perfectly fine, because they were designed to work that way. In either case, those satellites won't be producing any bass.