Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Denon 2910 VS Xbox 360?

Is there a company I can call that can calibrate my system? Honestly, I'm getting irritated having to deal with this thing. I love the sound but I've had nothing but problems with the system since I've bought it.

Do you have someone that lives in your town or near by that could help. Calibrating a system is not that hard.

Have you checked that all your speakers are wired in phase?

My receiver works similarly when I watch a movie through my computer. The volume needs to be near 0 db to get decent volume, but with the radio, that's WAY too loud. It may just be the way the Xbox 360 outputs sound, similar to my sound card.

I've tried it more than once using the Avia guide, I'm not even sure what I'm suppose to be looking for anymore. All I know is that the speakers hurt my ears when listening to non-pixar movies even at very reasonable levels. The pixar movies for whatever reason sound extremely good in comparison to everything else I've seen since buying the axioms.

Forget the Avia guide, just do it manually with the pink noise from the speakers and just yours as a reference, see if that helps.

There is another possibility as well, in very rare cases the DolbyDigital decoder or some other parts of your receiver can malfunction causing very distorted sound. My neighbor had this happen with a HK receiver once. On stereo it sounded normal, but on DolbyDigital it sounded like his speakers were blown, kinda scary, even though his speakers are pretty cheap, I dont think it would be much of a loss personally.

More probably the settings are screwed. If the center channel is set at +10 and the overall volume is at +3 you would be at the max volume of the receiver and might be clipping. I don't think I ever turn up my volume above -15 to -10, that would be way too loud to listen for very long, especially in action movies.

First check that you are not using any special surround modes that are affecting the sound.

Make sure all the speakers are set at 0 on the individual speaker menu.

Try your cheap DVD player and make sure it is hooked up using the digital connection, optical or coax. Listen to see if it sounds the same. Do all the speakers sound harsh or just the center channel?

If possible try another receiver if all else fails, I know this is a major pain but if nothing else works you could try it.

All the speakers are, and have always been, set to 0 -- I found it to sound the best that way. But anyway, I bought the Denon 2910 and dished out 60 bucks on an HDMI from a company called Impact Acoustics and it really seems to have remedied the problem. It sounds incredible so far. Thank you all for your advice.

Glad you were able to work around the issue, but you have taken away all our fun.