Hello all,
This is more of an observation than a question but wouldn't mind having someone concur with what my ears have deduced. I have a Pioneer 45tx, 2 inexpensive but satisfying Yamaha YST-SW305 subs and 7 recently bought Pyramid monitors (which sound great to me for the price) I mounted high on the walls. I ran the Pioneer's MCACC feature which set all my speakers up and got the subs set for a 0.0 in the Pio's menu (Which is pretty neutral and what most recommended to try and achieve with the subs volume level). I listened to one song: Saliva's "Famous Monsters" and immediately thought "not enough bass". I canceled the bass peak level on the 45 and turned the subs up to max, ahhhh! I then decided after a month of listening to let the Pioneer's settings stand and turned the subs back down and re-calibrated all the speakers perfectly again. I was surprised at how much better everything sounded to me; Songs I had thought needed more bass actually sounded better to me along with a few movies I thought needed maxed out bass. All this time, because I love so much bass, I was neglecting all my mids and highs! Right now I can't tell where the bass is coming from either (and that's the point isn't it, to blend the bass in with all the other speakers?). I think I have to rethink my position on bass levels. My ears where picking up things in movies and music I hadn't heard before and the bass was now an invisible enveloping force instead of a drowning out everything, duck behind the couch, there it is wall. Has anyone else ever drowned their sound out by putting too much bass in their rooms?
MCO
This is more of an observation than a question but wouldn't mind having someone concur with what my ears have deduced. I have a Pioneer 45tx, 2 inexpensive but satisfying Yamaha YST-SW305 subs and 7 recently bought Pyramid monitors (which sound great to me for the price) I mounted high on the walls. I ran the Pioneer's MCACC feature which set all my speakers up and got the subs set for a 0.0 in the Pio's menu (Which is pretty neutral and what most recommended to try and achieve with the subs volume level). I listened to one song: Saliva's "Famous Monsters" and immediately thought "not enough bass". I canceled the bass peak level on the 45 and turned the subs up to max, ahhhh! I then decided after a month of listening to let the Pioneer's settings stand and turned the subs back down and re-calibrated all the speakers perfectly again. I was surprised at how much better everything sounded to me; Songs I had thought needed more bass actually sounded better to me along with a few movies I thought needed maxed out bass. All this time, because I love so much bass, I was neglecting all my mids and highs! Right now I can't tell where the bass is coming from either (and that's the point isn't it, to blend the bass in with all the other speakers?). I think I have to rethink my position on bass levels. My ears where picking up things in movies and music I hadn't heard before and the bass was now an invisible enveloping force instead of a drowning out everything, duck behind the couch, there it is wall. Has anyone else ever drowned their sound out by putting too much bass in their rooms?
MCO
