The **OFFICIAL** Denon AVR-XX12 Model Owner's Thread - Page 57

I don't know what sub you have so I don't know what that setting does. I assume it's some "direct" that bypasses the crossover and also the volume control? In that case, it would be normal if the default volume of the sub is too loud for your room.


Again, depends on what that switch really does. Are you sure it bypasses the volume control too? If it just bypasses the LPF, you could leave the switch in "direct" mode and just turn down the volume. Either way, you need to figure out how to get the subwoofer preset to a volume that is not 12+dB too loud for your room, and then re-run Audyssey.



correct, being in close proximity to a hard boundary can create "bass reinforcement"... just because the speakers are identical doesn't mean their acoustic situation is the same. Room effects are most onerous in the bass region, so it's not abnormal to move a speaker 1-2 feet and have the low-end extension change by a half-octave or more.


Correct, the parameter check is just a "report card" of what Audyssey measured. It is there for you as a reference, but any changes that have been made in System Setup > Speaker Setup will override the auto setup settings. On the front panel display of your AVR, there is a little box around the "MultEQ XT" light that disappears to indicate that you are no longer running on the "default" Audyssey settings. And if you ever want to go back, you can go to Parameter Check > RESTORE and it will reset it back to the state reflected in the Parameter Checks.

correct, priority goes HDMI > component > composite for video, and HDMI > digital SPDIF > analog for audio.



It doesn't have to be that close to 0, it's just about not having it be "maxed out" at either end of the +/-12dB range. If it's at -12, it's possible that it required more correction but the receiver "ran out of room".

If you don't get a lot of bass from the sub after running Audyssey and with Dyn EQ engaged, make sure to go into the Speaker Setup and confirm that all speakers are set to SMALL with at least a 60-80Hz crossover. If Audyssey sent your fronts to LARGE you won't get a lot of bass redirected to the sub.

You are certainly free to bump up the sub a few dB to suit your preference, but give yourself some time to get used to calibrated "reference" sound. Many people are used to big bass because of some nasty room mode, but now Audyssey has corrected the problem and the bass sounds "weak" when it is in actuality just FLAT for the first time.

even if you measured only 1 position, as long as it did the calculate/store steps you have performed Audyssey calibration, including creating room correction filters for all your speakers. Again, I do not understand why you keep insisting/believing that all it does was measure speaker distance.

when you do the full 6-8 positions, you will feed the system more data with which to calculate even better filters.

perhaps the issue is that you are expecting this to work like your Pio with MCACC? because it doesn't, there is no "standing wave" stuff, Audyssey is a totally different system. The whole point of the "calculate" step is to take all the data you have fed it from the measurements and let it calculate the correction filters. If you can turn MultEQ / Dyn EQ / Dynamic Volume on, then you have a calibrated receiver.