Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Just got the spl meter. Need help.

Well once I changed the weighting to C that seems to have helped.
I can now get the sub to play at about 68db, but I have the volume on the sub at 50% and the gain on the receiver at +8. All the other speakers are around 0 on the receiver. While walking around with the spl meter things did not change much.

Also I noticed that when I played actual music vs the test tones the sub is also a bit louder.

In the past I have tried getting the sub a bit louder with and without audyssey on. It always comes down to having to have the volume and gain turned up pretty high. On a few occasions though the sub clipped during movie sequences with a lot of LFE. That is what prompter me to start thinking about an upgrade to the ep500. I would like to first make sure though that it's not something that I may be doing wrong.