[ShnuggMac]

Has anyone else disliked the results they got from their receiver's automatic calibration system? The Audyssey 2EQ that comes with my Onkyo TX-SR605 seemed to be a problem from day one, even for my installer. After running the setup a few times, he couldnt even get the thing to realize that there were certain speakers even hooked up -- he ended up doing the calibration physically.

Today, I decided to play with the mic again and see if it would work; the first time, it read AMBIENT NOISE TOO HIGH....and I had to do it again. The second time around, it did everything right, but the settings were WAAAAAAAAY off our "physical" settings and values; it measured the distance rather wrong from each speaker and made each level really, really low in value....the center channel was pegged to 0dB, which seemed ridiculous, and the sub was at like 1dB, which wouldnt make sense because at +7dB, I am JUST beginning to get my room to shake....

Whats the deal with these auto calibration systems? Do they really work? Is it normal to get different readings each time you run it? And do most of you guys do your calibrations by meter or by ear instead?