Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Epic 80 500 with Denon 3808 bass issue(lack of)

Thanks again for all the help! I have tried tweaking with the crossovers and setups that were suggested, and I can honestly say, that I am a really happy with the bass output now. Just tweaking the side surrounds and I should be good to go.

Thanks again for all the help, and I am glad I decided to finally purchase these speakers. The speakers and service is great, and the knowledge base here from axiom owners is outstanding. I can finally ditch the shipping boxes my wife has been complaining about!

Thanks again.
Martin

Congrats Martin, glad to hear things are now sounding better. Enjoy the final tweaking and then start lining up your favorite music to rediscover through the Axioms.

It's Alan's fault, his earlier response to the question of surrounds and center being played back through the mains is where the confusion came from; for the most part I think we are all on the same page.

Glad to hear you are liking how your speakers sound now, the shipping baxes have a low WAF.

Since what I once called my "optimal" settings have changed, I thought I'd correct my earlier post for those that might read this thread later.

I now have my fronts set to small. I found that depending on the dynamic range of a movie, my Denon doesn't have enough power to run them at large. I heard some distortion depending on the scene. The depth charge scene in U-571 for example.

How loud were you listening at the time (db peaks?)

I didn't mean to post and run last time but working OT prevented me from posting for awhile.

"Trail biking" might better describe it here, but I thought that might just confuse somebody or I'd find myself in a long-winded explanation of what it was...kinda like right now...

I'd just be guessing if I put any numbers down. I'll test it out and let you know.

I should also note that after changing my fronts to small I lowered LFE from 100 to 80 to prevent what I would call exaggerated bass that I heard while watching music on BD.

I changed my fronts from small to large, did a quick test and I didn't hear the distortion. Peaks reached 93 db. I've changed a couple of settings and moved the placement of my sub since that post so I wasn't able to re-create the exact scenario again. I also can't remember at what volume (on the AVR) I was listening when I heard it.

It's possible that what I heard wasn't distortion...or that I was hearing things.