Hi, please help me with this one. I have three AV receivers in my home. Two of them are used for home theaters and one is used for my computer.


From my PC, I connect to my media server and play back my songs, they play very loud and the volume is set at -50db on the receiver. I try to play back the same song from my xbox 360 in the living room but I have to crank the volume to -10db / -25db to basically have the same thing. For movies I have to crank it to -10db or more.

I tried to use my speakers from my living room and put them on my pc and it was worst.. songs played at a -52db were very very loud.. so it must be related to my AVR?

PC: [URL="http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/products/42/98/405/VSX-516-S/index.html"]Pioneer VSX-516[/URL] with a pair of Aiwa bookshelves speakers (from an old boom box) + a 8" Energy sub

Main Home theater: [URL="http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/productdetail.html?CNTID=200502"]Yamaha HTR-5960[/URL] with a pair of [URL="http://www.axiomaudio.com/m22ti_main.html"]Axiom M22TI[/URL] + an Axiom center + PSB 12" sub

Alternate HT: RXV-650 with a pair of Axiom 1.5
it 's the same thing on my alternate HT, I have to turn up the volume to -20/-30 for a tv show.

what's going on?

please help!

Well I did the YPAO calibration and it's ok now. I inspected the settings and the receiver gave a little boost to the front speakers. It now rocks!