Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Speaking of subs...

Wow....I didn't think of it til you brought it up, but....

....I haven't made any adjustments at all lately

I used to make adjustments when I went from TV to DVDs to VCR tapes to CDs.....all the time!

It took a bit after I got my new M50s and the new receiver and DVD player to get everything dialed in. Then...I don't hardly change a thing anymore!!!????

The main difference? I cross at 60hz now. Otherwise it is a new receiver, a new DVD player AND a new cable box.

Coincidence that all signals are closer now than with the old set-up? Dunno. Has it got something with crossing at 60? Dunno.

But no...don't constantly change the sub settings anymore!....WOW

Just curious, what are your room dimensions ? It might be that you have a room response peak in the 40-50 Hz range which affects music more than movies... so you have to turn it down to avoid getting overwhelming bass on music...

Just a thought. Maybe one more placement tweak (or EQ) might make the difference.

Rick, I run volume on the sub amp a little "hotter" than needed, and adjust the levels from the receiver. (Which are accessable from the remote) I tend to fidget with the levels constantly, so this eliminates having to pop my head behind the thing. I'm told I have a problem, but my therapist says that in time, I can learn to "leave the levels ALONE......" (What I really need is less therapy, and to buy an AVIA disc and SPL meter!)

Yeah...An Avia disc and an SPL meter would sure help me too

What I've been doing, and it works fairly well, silly as it sounds, is use a CD piece that I have that has guitars running up and down the scales from at least 3, 4 hundred down to well, well into the low bass region.

Ok....so I don't really know what I've got, numbers wise, but at least I know I don't have any gaping holes or lofty peaks in my subs output

And it actually mates well with the rest of the system and sounds good too

That is funny Rick, I find myself doing the same thing on my 350. There is not a lot of light in the corner where it resides so it is hard to see the white line as you mentioned. Currently I have the volume set at 12 o'clock on the sub, and at 0 dB's on the receiver. For movies this seems a good overall setting, however, for some CD's I find my self turning up the levels on my receiver with the remote. I have the receiver set at 80hz crossover and all speakers set to small.

Randy

Axiom M60's vp150 ep350 4-Qs8's
Denon 2805
Sanyo Z2 Projector
Panasonic S97S DVD HDMI

Well now....this is one of those rare times when us DIYers have a very slight and unusual advantage.this dosen't happen very often.

In the area of convenience(and who, at MY age wants to be crawling around in a corner, in the dark, with failing eyesight, trying to adjust a sub?.....Not ME!!)Luckly, my sub box is two years younger than I and I didn't wish to do any excess surgury on its frail carcass. So instead of hacking a big hole in the back of the box for the plate amp, the amp sits out in the air, and in plain sight of....only me, when I'm in my listening chair. And that's cool cause I can see the red light turn to green when the amp leaves standby and goes active(which isn't as often while listening to music and just watching TV cause I'm crossed at 60.) Plus it's very easy to make amp adjustments in the light, and within easy reach.(which I don't do very often with my current set-up, but it's nice to know that I can!)

So anyway.....you guys have a performance advantage on me when it comes to deep and loud(although I think I've discovered a new, larger driver that will fit the box with the proper electro-mechanical properties that will help me close the gap) But when it comes to convenience and keeping track of what mode the amp is in...I Have Seen The Light

One of the advantages of EP600 (and the SVS cylinder subs) which nobody talks about is having the electronics further off the ground, so you don't have to bend down so far to twiddle the level controls

Now why didn't someone point that out to me before? I am quite happy with my EP500, but this may have been grounds to have gotten the EP600 instead

Hey Rick,

How about using some glow in the dark paint in lieu or next to the white-out so it glows when the lights are out?

Just a thought...

on my SVS 20-39 PC+, i keep the volume at about 30% for movies, and then kick it up to about 40% for music.

it also depends a lot on which 'mode' i am in.. on my Onkyo 701, the 'all channel' mode tends to put more kick in the bass, while the phantom DTS and pro logic modes tend to not have as much kick..

i guess it depends on my mood most of the time..

bigjohn