Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Crossover Settings and.. To Audyssey or Not....

I've gone through several setups with Audyssey on my Denon 789 (1909). This last time I ran the first pass and then stopped to check the trim level on my sub(EP500). This was to check for a setting around +-1.0. Last time I had the vol on the sub too high and Audyssey set the level at -12.0 and I had no room to adjust. After verifying the EP500's level I reran all the passes and adjusted the large/small and xover settings.

When playing movies either from TV or DVD/BD dynamic/eq sounds great. The surrounds especially come alive. As I've said before the only problem is the mixing of some TV broadcasts. The bass is not mixed well at all and I get a boomy background rumble on some shows. Somehow a lot of bass on the Food Network dosen't seem quite right.

I have brought this up on the AVS Audyssey forum and Chris from Audyssey said that its a well known problem with some broadcast TV.

I've decided to live with some boomy bass on non essential programming and enjoy the benefits with movies.

John - I agree re: TV broadcasts. Even with Audyssey off, I often had to pull up the sub channel level and dial it down to avoid overwhelming bass in some broadcasts.

Jason