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It sounds great for movies and I understand that movie soundtracks have lfe, but when I play radio, ipod, cd's there is not much bass. What can I do to improve bass for music?
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Originally Posted by HopefulFred /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24434652
I'm just guessing here, because you havent given us a lot to go on. Probably, there is some modal interaction or boundary intereference going on. The sub is ding what it's supposed to (most likely), but the room is taking away in the more important ranges for music - somewhere in the 50-70hz range - while leaving the lower effects stuff strong. It's like in real estate: location, location, location. Have you tried your sub in other places around the room?
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Originally Posted by tdogroeder /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24434547
It sounds great for movies and I understand that movie soundtracks have lfe, but when I play radio, ipod, cd's there is not much bass. What can I do to improve bass for music?
O is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by tdogroeder /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24443266
Thanks guys for chiming in with help. The room is my open to kitchen, dinning room and stairs to upper level.
What should the Subwoofer Phase be set at? Currently it's at 0.
Equipment
Yamaha RXV765
Emotiva amp
SVS PB12 Plus
Rocket 850's & Big foot center & Rocket sides, Polk back surrounds
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Originally Posted by CharlesJ /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24444935
O is good.
But, the movies specifically have a LFE channel and so decoded to go to your sub. When you play other sources, it is stereo mode most likely and even when you have DPL the bass management may not send lows to your sub. Some/many modern receivers needs another setting to send the lows to the sub.
One such setting is called double bass in Onkyo receivers. Others have other names.
This will solve your music issues. That setting would most likely work well for movies too.
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Originally Posted by CharlesJ /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24444935
O is good.
But, the movies specifically have a LFE channel and so decoded to go to your sub. When you play other sources, it is stereo mode most likely and even when you have DPL the bass management may not send lows to your sub. Some/many modern receivers needs another setting to send the lows to the sub.
One such setting is called double bass in Onkyo receivers. Others have other names.
This will solve your music issues. That setting would most likely work well for movies too.
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Originally Posted by kiwi2 /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24447035
Are your front speakers set as small or large?
That is what I am saying but if your mains are already set to small, not sure how your receiver is handling bass management when either you are using Dolby prologic of one form or another or just simple stereo straight processing.Quote:
Originally Posted by tdogroeder /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24446513
Are you saying part of the solution is sending bass to both speakers & sub for music is how to improve it? I assume that is what you are saying Onkyo does.
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Originally Posted by CharlesJ /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24447412
That is what I am saying but if your mains are already set to small, not sure how your receiver is handling bass management when either you are using Dolby prologic of one form or another or just simple stereo straight processing.
One reason to read the manual carefully.
I am also presuming you have properly level matched your channels?
Also, remember that bass in music is not as punchy as in movies with a few exceptions where 48" drums are used.![]()
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Originally Posted by tdogroeder /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24448153
I used spl meter on speakers. I realize that bass is not the same as movies, I thought that it could be improved since I might have something incorrect in setting etc.
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Originally Posted by CharlesJ /t/1520824/how-do-i-get-my-sub-to-sound-better-with-music#post_24449362
Just review the manual at page 46 as stated above and go over all conditions especially in stereo and dpl modes.