I have a JVC RX-D205s receiver. This receiver has an option where I can set the corssover frequency for each speaker. What I want to do is have two channels without surround sound. But I want each channel to split up the freq. on each side: tweeter for hi, mid cones for mids, and bass cones for bass. But on the back of my receiver I don't have the option to plug in speakers like this for two channel speakers. On the back of the unit I have Left and Right speaker inputs and the rest are mid and back surround sound speaker inputs. How can I set up my system with two channels(without surround sound) and the freq. separated to each speaker the way I specified above?

I've just read through the entire manual for your amplifier and it doesn't do what you think it does. I suggest that you read it and point out the part that makes you think it does.

Cheers, Slipstreem.

In case you don't know this already... Inside your speaker cabinet, you will find a (passive) crossover network. It's a filter-network made-up of coils (inductors) and capacitors. It is the job of the crossover network to send the correct frequencies to each driver. (There are exceptions... Some cheap speakers use only a capacitor to block low frequencies from the tweeter, and some systems with piezo tweeters don't use a crossover network at all.)

A system wired as you discribed is called a bi-amped (bi-amplified) or tri-amped system, etc. These are common in professional sound reinforcement (live concerts). These systems use an electronic crossover (example) connected between the preamp (or mixer) and the power amplifiers. They will use two or more separate power amplifiers... A mimimal tri-amped sytem would use one stereo amplifier for the tweeters, one for the mids, and one for the woofers. I don't think there is any practical way to do this with a surround-sound receiver.

my bad. thanx.