New house and the upper level has in-ceiling speakers. When we first moved in I hooked up a 20 year old Aiwa all in one stereo to it and it really sounded fantastic, fed by an mp3 player. I have a Denon 3313ci setup in the home theater downstairs so I chose another Denon for commonality upstairs (the avr-e300). We really didn't need an AVR, just wanted something with airplay capability and pandora and such. Seems like that doesn't exist in a 2 channel receiver unless you spend a lot of money. Anyway, got the new receiver set up today and the sound is very dissapointing. Bottom line is there is no bass to speak of, at least not compared to what came out of the 20 yr old $100 Aiwa system. I have the output lines hooked up to the front left and right and from there it feeds a spliter thing where the speaker wires for the other rooms hook up. Each room has it's own volume control. This is just as it was hooked up with the Aiwa. In the receiver I have all the speakers turned off except front left and right and have them set as "large". I have tone control turned on and bass all the way up (+6) and treble around +1db. Anything else I should be doing??
Am I expecting too much thinking I can get good sounding stereo music from an AVR without a Subwoofer??
Thanks!
Am I expecting too much thinking I can get good sounding stereo music from an AVR without a Subwoofer??
Thanks!