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Good point, Ray. This also helps my point as to how subjective the sub calibration can be. When I calibrated the sub, the initial reading was about 4 dB higher than the left front. Therefore, I lowered the sub about 4dB to match the other speakers. I feel the sub is more intended for movies so I am upping the sub level.

Another point of confusion is the small vs. large fronts. When setting to small, all sounds below 80Hz go to the sub. When I change back and forth between large and small fronts (with sub), I don't notice much of a difference when listening to music. I also tried large without sub vs. small with sub, and also noticed little difference. I guess I expected to hear a significant difference.

"When I calilbrate in DD, I wind up with 6 settings for the speakers and the sub. If I then play a CD in 2CH, the left,right and sub are set at 0 dB on the receiver. When I play a CD in 5CH, all the speakers are set at 0 dB on the receiver. Why, because I never calibrated in that mode and the DVD does not allow me to. Therefore, do I just take the DD settings and adjust the 2CH and 5CH settings accordingly?? "

I have a Denon 3805. After doing a manual calibration using the DVD, while playing a 5.1 source go into 'system setup' , 'speaker setup' , 'channel level' and start your tones. It will now show all the levels in this menu just like you calibrated with the DVD. Adjust the level on one speaker and then move it back. Exit the menu and voila, now you have set the default calibration!

All the best,

Dave

Dave - thanks for the great tip! I was thinking about this and realized I had never checked my 3803 beyond 5.1. I suspect it works the same way. I' ll look into it.

i believe "s" is one founder ron stimpson or simpson & "v" is the other tom v. i see them posting in other forums a lot that is the only reason i partially know that answer.

Right, Jake. S=Stimpson and V=Vodhanel("the subhuman").