Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Do I have my speakers setup right?

Guess, I'll have to try the crawl method.... I put the sub in the corner furthest from the open room per a lot of your requests....I guess I could always turn the gain up to 12 o'clock and sit back like the Maxell guy.

I did the crawl method once at Dennis'...without the crawl. Those tile floors, although beautiful to look at, don't do justice on pointy knees. The crawl became more of a squatting motion. I'd walk around the room to a few certain areas and slowly get down in formation to hear the changes taking place.

I did the sub crawl about a month ago with outstanding results. If you haven't done it yet, you should certainly give it a try.

i did the sub crawl as well but the spikes kept digging into my back.

So if I do the sub crawl, I assume I would remove the middle chair from the front row, and place the sub there, facing the screen? Then crawl around like a monkey listening for the best sound? What type of music/sounds do you play, I assume something with lots of LFE?

Actually, you'd put the sub on the chair, which would more closely approximate the position of your head in the chair. Because good bass can be like football -- a game of inches -- you want to be as precise as possible.

The whole idea with the sub crawl is that once you find the spot where the bass sounds best, you simply reverse the position of the sub and your head.

I guess my only question is that I don't always sit in the same chair. For 2.35 movies, I like to sit in the back row so my eyes don't have to dart back and forth so much like when your in the IMAX. For smaller ratio movies I sometimes sit in the front row if we don't have to many guests. I wonder if I place it in the middle of the couch, which would be an average of all positions. If I did this would the middle front row chair get in the way of the testing, maybe I'd move it out of the way then?

Randy

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you simply reverse the position of the sub and your head.

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So the sub goes up my *ss?

THAT explains the bass problems I've had in my room and why I can't feel the bass!

Give Mark an award or something. You know, like the daily "Thanks for making me spit coffee on my computer Commendation".

LOL!

Actually it was a Mountain Dew on my HP laptop keyboard at work, hmmm, time to upgrade, ha ha

So anybody want to comment on my last "on topic" question above.