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Abyss: that worked. Thanks!!!! I can play the TV audio much louder, now. All of the inputs were at the default value of 0 dB. I changed my video 3 input to +8 dB and it made a significant difference.

I used the supplied microphone and the automatic setup last Saturday for installation. The speaker distances that it measured are correct. I'm not sure what to think about the other settings that it installed/ calculated. I wrote them all down and saved them. I will probably go through a manual setup with my Radio Shack meter and the Digital Video Essentials disk.

Maybe Onkyo is the next step on my quest! They seem to be popular here.

Great ratpack! Glad to hear it I used the mic/setup as well and was amazed at the distance calculations, hit all speakers and sub spot on. I did not keep the auto eq settings but I live in a acoustic nightmare, tile, concrete and plaster. However I found that even in my environment leaving all speakers flat and eq'ing the heck out of the sub worked best for me but that’s just for home theater and most newer cds. On my Onkyo I use a HK PA2000 for the front channels which worked out great because I slapped my old eq between them specifically for listening to older cds. As for the db levels, again, it seemed to be spot on with the exception of the center channel, had to boost it 1db. Let me know how the db with the meter works out.

littleb, I could not have picked a better combo, imho, than Onkyo, Axiom and Hsu. The Onkyo is very flexible and I have the 702. From what I have heard the 703/803 stepped up this year with XM & iPod compatibility as well as adding crossovers for each speaker set.

Ok guys,....thanks alot

I just ASSUMED that my 602 with older technology wouldn't work well with the supplied mic.

....now just WHERE....DID I put that pesky mic?!!

I need to re-read the manual (again) to see what and how it calculated the cross-overs or whatever all those speaker numbers are. My old Kenwood did not have that degree of sophistication!!! Every speaker has a different set of numbers.

I'm assuming that I don't want any receiver equalization, just a flat response, but I could be wrong about this apsect since I have never done it before.

Glad your up and running!

Thanks Bug. It is sounding real good!!