Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater How does this setup sound

Yes, the Pioneer MCACC "automatically" judges whether each of the speakers is LARGE or SMALL, by sending them a series of pink noise and measuring the bass response from each channel. As mizer stated, most floorstanders (including my Hales) and larger bookshelfs would be judged as LARGE, while the VP150 and QS8 are consistently assigned as SMALL. Once this is done, the MCACC will go on to calibrate the levels, delays, and frequency EQs for each channel. So far so good...

A truly great thing about the MCACC is that you can then manually re-select the LARGE/SMALL assignments for each channel to your liking, and the receiver will automatically re-adjust the bass management based on the entire set of the MCACC-calibrated parameters that the receiver remembers. You do not have to re-run the calibration. (So, mizer, you do not have to obey the receiver's assignments, if you do not like them.)

As for myself, after the initial experiments, I currently set all 5 channels as "small," since it seems to provide the best imaging. However, now that I have listened to this setting for quite some time, perhaps I will play around with the settings again, just like chess!

I am going to play around this weedend also with the settings and upgrade to 6.1. It's going to rain on Long Island tomarrow anyway so why not. I really like the large setting for the fronts so far but need to experiment more.

The M60's will defintely have you ready for the future, but you might want to give it a second though if your room is too small. They need room to breathe (away from walls) and you need to be back a bit from them for them to sound their best.
I have a small (10x17x7) club basement room with M60s and find it fairly hard to get a good placement that allows for the best imaging and a large enough sweet spot for 2 people to enjoy.

normally, I just have them place for just me and I have to say the sound is ridiculously good. The detail in these speakers are great and can truely immerse you in the music (or movie as the case may be).

Absolutely. While making some connection changes I moved my M60s about 3 feet out away from the wall. Testing my connections I discovered that the M60s sounded much better -more open, louder, better in every way. I hated to move them back to their positions 10 to 12 inches from the wall, but room constraints demand it.