I just got an Onkyo 894 up and running. Sounds great but, like many, I am a home theatre novice and I do not know much about speaker calibration and crossover settings. Right now, I believe the front and surround speakers are set at 40 mhz.

What do I need to do to get the optimal settings? Should I move all 4 speaker settings up in increments? Set each differently?

I've already measured and set the correct distance from each speaker.

Thanks in advance for your help.

I bought this same HTIB the other day and I'm also not sure what to set my crossovers to..

I took a guess and set the crossover settings to what the specs say: 5 main speakers all to 80Hz (they seem to be identical speakers; 65Hz was the lowest freq the specs said but the 60Hz setting didn't sound as good). I set the subwoofer low-pass to 150Hz (the highest freq response according to the spec). Maybe it should be 120Hz or lower or something.. I'm not too sure about what I'm doing, but it sounded fine to me using AVIA's crossover calibration.

What about the decibal level for each speaker? Is there any thing special I need to do or just work with what I think sounds best?

Thanks

You should set it so the sound coming from each of the speakers is the same volume. You could use a SPL meter to measure it exactly, but I just used my ears and they sound fine to me at 0dB with my positioning.

I bought this same HTIB the other day and I'm also not sure what to set my crossovers to..

I took a guess and set the crossover settings to what the specs say: 5 main speakers all to 80Hz (they seem to be identical speakers; 65Hz was the lowest freq the specs said but the 60Hz setting didn't sound as good). I set the subwoofer low-pass to 150Hz (the highest freq response according to the spec). Maybe it should be 120Hz or lower or something.. I'm not too sure about what I'm doing, but it sounded fine to me using AVIA's crossover calibration.

I have the HT-S894 and I sent this question to Onkyo technical support. The reply I got back was to set to either 100Hz or 120Hz...