I just bought a Yamaha YHT-270 based on recommendations on this forum. Best Buy had them on sale and I had an additional 12% off coupon. It sounds great, much better than I expected from this price range.

It seems like the consensus on here is that if your speakers are smaller than 8 inches or so, they should be setup as "small" on the receiver so that only the subwoofer gets bass. The default setup on this receiver has the front left and right as "large" speakers and the subwoofer as "both" (bass to sub and front speakers). I'm assuming the ideal setup for these speakers (3.25" two ways) would be small and only the sub should get bass. It makes me wonder why Yamaha made this the default setup though since this receiver and speakers are sold as a set. Yamaha specs the speakers to have a response down to 30hz which I find hard to believe with 3.25" woofers. Did I set it up correctly?

Another question I have is related to setting each speaker's level. If I get a sound pressure meter, can I use the test tones for measurement or do I need to get a calibration dvd like Avia? Is it preferable to adjust the subwoofer's level with its volume control or should it be adjusted from the receiver?

"Small" for all speakers and "Sub Only" for the sub in the receiver settings are correct. This will send everything below your crossover setting to the subwoofer, well not everything because your crossover setting is not a brick wall, it will slope and taper off just below the setting though. Try 100 to start for your crossover setting listen for a while then try 80 and also 120. Whichever sounds best to you is fine, probably 100 though.

Every receiver in every htib I've seen have the default setting for the speakers as large so that's no big deal, just set them to small and adjust your crossover accordingly.

Can you change the crossover settings in the HTR-5930 receiver that comes with the YHT-270? I can't find it anywhere...

I also bought the YHT 270s for my room for my bday and they sound great - so let me get this straight:

set ALL my speakers to small including the centre speaker

and my BASS to Sub only NOT "both"

also what settings do you have for your speakers cause there are many if you could have a list to get the best sound out of these bad boys that would be great!