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.


M80s,VP150,EP500,QS8(4)