The "Official" Pioneer VSX-1019AH Owner's Thread - Page 114

Originally Posted by jkcheng122

I understand that, but the Energy at their size will not be able to handle a full range load and will be damaged imo. For me I'd rather keep them on "small" and not have the bass until I can get a sub than run them as "large" until then and risk damaging them.

Originally Posted by jomari

quick question for 919 owners,

can you adjust the crossover settings PER speaker? or does it do it old school and you have to set a 'general' crossover point for all speakers.

Thanks for the replies gents.

Originally Posted by jkcheng122

Do any AVR allow this? Doesn't seem like one should want this feature.

can you adjust the crossover settings PER speaker? or does it do it old school and you have to set a 'general' crossover point for all speakers

Do any AVR allow this? Doesn't seem like one should want this feature.

Originally Posted by jomari

quick question for 919 owners,

can you adjust the crossover settings PER speaker? or does it do it old school and you have to set a 'general' crossover point for all speakers.

Thanks for the replies gents.

Originally Posted by kowalskisean

I wanna hear the health care summit while I take a crap. What am I missing?

Originally Posted by kowalskisean

I've worn out the manual and made it through most the the 114 pages in this thread but... Why am I not getting anything on Zone 2 when watching TV in both zones.

Details:
2 zone setup
HDMI from sat box to reciever
Assigned HDMI 1 input to "watch tv"
Autosurround inut selected
No sound regradless of input signal type
Tuner input works fine in Zone 2 (haven't tried other sources)

I wanna hear the health care summit while I take a crap. What am I missing?

Originally Posted by kowalskisean

Skippy
p.64, 4th box down - DELAY.

Originally Posted by myjeep4x400

I have the following setup
Direct TV hdmi > reciever
PS3 hdmi . reciever
wii composite wii cable > tv in on reciever
ipod

klipsch c-3 center
klipsch f-3 left and Right
klipsch s-3 surround left and right
Definitive Pro 1000 sub

Center speaker set on large
Left and Right set on small
Rears are set as sides on small

the Center is set on 9.5 db
L and R are set on 8.5
Surrounds are set on 9.5
sub is on 8.0

Issues...

1. I should not have to have the speaker levels so high to get loud high quality sound. The left and right channels sound pathetic on direct tv.
2. PS3 Blu Ray Star Trek newest one...sounds like small laser fire are almost inaudible. And voices are drowned out by music.
3. Sound levels on direct tv and Ps3 are loud enough for me at 17 db on the reciever but on radio and ipod the db level is loud at only 30 db
4.Direct TV sports ie Nascar and basketball games dont wow me at all.

Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by ccotenj

^^^

yes...

for #1... given the sensitivity of those speakers, unless you are trying to fill a concert hall, if those offset numbers are positive, i'd pretty much guarantee user error on mcacc set up....

try this...

- set center channel to "small"...

- re-run mcacc carefully following the directions given in the mcacc thread...

for #2...

that's the way the movie is mixed... check the thread on that movie and you'll see that...

for #3...

those aren't unreasonable "numbers" at all...

for #4...

you'll have to define what you want by "wow"...

Originally Posted by gunsmoker

How big is the room? My AVR is plenty loud in a 16x16 ft and cathedral ceiling.
What gauge speaker cables do you use? I'm not very sure, I think mine are 14 or 16. The thicker the better.
How long are your speaker cables - the shorter the better. My fronts are 6ft or so.
How was the microphone positioned? Should face up, be at ear level and if that means on a couch, you may be better off raising it above the backrest.
Were there any obstacles between the mike and the speakers. I move my cocktail table away when I run MCACC. I like the result better that way.
Where there any noise makers during the calibration - a loud fridge or airconditioning, voices?
If you clear a memory or try an unused memory with the default levels, distances and a flat EQ, is the dialog standing out better and is the volume around -20dB somewhat satisfactory?

Originally Posted by myjeep4x400

ll try that, I set up the system myself after I ran the setup. The setting it gave were way to low and it was like I was listening to a dvd home theater setup. Bland, no pop, system turned up loud 15 db main volume and it sounds marginally better than just my tv speakers.

Originally Posted by ccotenj

-15db isn't "loud", it's well under reference level... you seem to have some misconceptions about how the volume scale works on the avr....

"set up yourself"... with a spl meter, correct?

it's always possible that mcacc is producing an outlier result for you... but judging from what you've said in your posts, i think you need to be just a tad more careful in your setup...

edit: you may "want" it to sound like a small theater... but keep in mind that there is a lot more to it than merely speaker eq/leveling... tell us what your room looks like and what is in it...

Originally Posted by ccotenj

^^^

prof, have you tried adjusting the x-curve parameter? that might help a bit, since you are saying you notice it more a movie levels...

when you reference "brightness", that's a function of the higher frequencies, and would be addressed by cutting those (edit: killing a few of the first reflections wouldn't hurt either), not boosting the mid-range (especially since it's already boosting the mid-range, you don't really want to boost TOO much)...

Originally Posted by profchaos71

I thought my system sounded a little bright so i looked at the eq and was suprised.My mains and center are SVS SCS-01 with 2 6 inch woofers and a silk tweeter. The MCACC trims everything on the bass side into the negatives,and jacks up the mid band while leaving the high end flat.If i wanted a little more mid-bass from my fronts,how much and what band or bands would i adjust?Of course my speakers are set to small and sub is at 80hz in the avr,disabled at the sub.It sounds pretty good right now but when i turn it up to movie levels it's a bit much.

Originally Posted by gunsmoker

I have a similar scenario. The fix for me was to play with the timing parameter in the EQ pro manual calibration. Start with 30-50ms and keep reducing the time parameter and rerunning EQ pro until you get something you like. In the end I still trimmed manually 1.5dB at 4kHz on all channels and bumped the 125Hz up by 1.5dB on the fronts. I think I chose the 10-20ms setting, but it depends on the room. It's hard to determine that from the reverb measure graphs and maybe that's why the auto MCACC does not do it and uses a wide time interval.
I also used the 3-point standing wave calibration option of EQ pro. I like the results better this way. The standing wave filters end up very different with the 3-point measure, although the standing wave compensation has very little effect in my case.
No need to play with the X-curve. Especially in your case when the highs are flat, it will crush them even more. With the smallest setting - 0.5dB/oct at 2kHz, it will be -1dB@4kHz, -1.5dB@8kHz, and -2dB@16kHz.