Order of Calibration?

[John_Williams]

Hey, first post!!

I have a question concerning the BFD. I have the Pioneer 1014TX receiver and an SVS 22-31PCi (NSD).

Do I use the Pioneer's room calibration first, and then set up my house curve on the BFD, or is there another way to get the best setup?

After I set up my house curve, should I use the Pioneer calibration again?

I am just wondering where auto-calibration fits into the puzzle.

[Sonnie]

Hi John and welcome to the Shack!

With my Denon receiver I would run the Auto Setup (distance and levels) and then I would try to get my sub flat with the BFD, no house curve, before running the Auto-EQ. The reason was to try to prevent the Auto-EQ from using filters in the sub frequency region. It was hit and miss. Sometimes I could remeasure and I'd have to adjust the BFD, other times not. I seems like I never got the same results with the Auto-EQ everytime which made it difficult to use.

The Denon would always reset the crossovers and change my L/C/R to large speakers and EQ the lower end. It didn't really matter on those since I would change the crossover back to 80Hz, other than it wasted filters below 80Hz on the L/C/R. It was still doing something to my LFE channel though... and that's what I could never figure.

I haven't used the Pioneer, maybe someone else has, but I suspect you might want to try it several ways and just see what's happening. You definitely want to check your sub response after using the Pioneer.

[John_Williams]

Interesting. I might just try a good old fashioned manual calibration today, and see what I find out