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Reference volume Onkyo 503??????

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I purchased a spl meter from radio shack and after getting all of the speakers to the same level I am now wondering if I wasted my time because I don;t know the reference volume.

Does anyone that has the 503 know what the true reference volume is?

I basically turned the knob to 30 and calibrated everything to 65db's.
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Did you calibrate using the reference tones in the receiver?


If you have the Avia setup disc, the speaker balance tones are supposed to be calibrated at 85db. So you turn the receiver up until either the center or left channel reads 85db, and then adjust the other channels from there. That volume setting on the receiver is "reference".


I would guess that on your receiver, 85db would be about -10 (assuming you are going towards 0 as you go up).
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