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Malice wrote:
 Cheers for the advice!
So the mains get (P)EQ'd below the XO with an untamed sub in the equation? |
It added a few dB at 63hz but that was as low as the PEQ goes.
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My mains appears to be being boosted by my room from about 50Hz and below. My main speakers are producing sound at 25Hz about 15db above the target!
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Then your receiver is most likely adding this bass boost. This makes it very difficult for dealing with. The idea of course is that you want your sub to be producing the sound at 25hz. If you're fronts are producing a lot at 25hz you'll have to have your sub produce less. So you have the mains producing freqs designed for the sub.
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As I get a lot of grief from "she who must be obeyed" on the LF propagation in the rest of the house, I'll probably aim for a flat liner.
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Personally I think you will be bored to tears with a flat response. Before I tried this I had read what others said - that it was rather dull. "Rather dull" is putting it mildly. In my case it sounded flat and didn't give much presence. What you may want to do instead is use the house curve, but keep the sub volume dialed down to compensate a bit.
Bottom line is to try it both ways. There is no right or wrong way, so just experiment and go with what sounds best and keeps the Mrs. happy.
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Haha, that's why you PEQ's in step one presumably with the sub in place!
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No the receiver doesn't factor the sub into the PEQ.
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My Denon's PEQ runs through a target level of 75db on the test tones. What target level did you shoot for?
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I did 75db with the house curve I mentioned earlier. This means that my 20hz was up around 83hz. None of this matters in the end though because once its all dialed in you can turn the sub volume up or down, yet what matters most is that the relative dB levels throughout the house curve will remain the same. i.e. if the sub sounds too over bearing I can turn the sub down 5dB and then 20hz is 78dB and 80hz is 70dB...
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