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Old 01-11-08, 02:32 PM   #9 (Link)
Ed Mullen
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Re: PB13 delivered today - but not getting the results...


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jvanhambelgium wrote: View Post
Ed,

I've made the PB13 mobile this evening and moved it about 3.2 meters out of the corner.
As a "quick & dirty" test I hooked on my portable PC and put the volume very low (safety...) and also the gain on the PB13
I then went up to 2/8 gain and started rising the output signal on the PC (headphones-out) and I had the X-over engaged to filter out unwanted higher freq.
Tested with some high quality, low freq MP3's ... the muffled sound that came out together with the bass where quite ... :raped:

...holy cow... the difference was already day and night. Now I felt the bass and things started to move (some drinking glasses 8meters further seemed to be shaking...)

So basically I think :

- OR the signal from my Onkyo was way to low
- OR I have a serious room problem that is "better" at its current location shifted roughly 3.2meters away from the corner. (room is 12.2meters in length, so that's near 1/3 of the room)

The funny thing is I did the Audessey run yesterday with the sub in the corner and the gain about halfway.
Audessey configured the subwoofer at -15dB.
Even after changing manually to -3dB or even 0dB is still was not the impact that I felt now ...
So by changing that sub-signal to -3dB or 0dB (, even tried +3dB if I recall well) no real improvement was there so I guess it is really caused by placement....

Let me fiddle some more and I'll do a new Audessey run tomorrow and see what happens...
Hopefully things will improve much...

Thanks for all comments so far.
Glad you are making progress. Make sure you don't have any dynamic range compression (DRC aka midnight mode) or bass limiters running - AVRs are famous for that kind of thing.

Also make sure your DVD is sending the right signal to the AVR with all six channels - including the LFE channel - being properly processed. This is becoming increasingly difficult to verify with HDMI now being used for audio and both players and AVRs being buggy.


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