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Unfortunately, this sounds like something is wrong with the receiver to me as well. Do you by chance have a way to borrow another receiver from a friend or buy one somewhere that you can take it back without a restocking fee? That would be the easiest way to rule out the receiver without making yourself nuts.

Also, to get through faster troubleshooting, I'd definitely recommend you call Axiom rather than waiting for Alan to respond here. He does check in regularly but I don't think he sees every post, so to speed things up, you might want to give them a ring.

Jason

Thank you again,


I reset everything sounds great now. The only issue is that I have to turn it way up. The volume comes on slow, and then starts to really fill the room about -20 db. normal?

That's fine, no worries.

As Jason mentioned above all receivers are different. My Denon starts at -80dB's and goes up to +20dB I believe. For movies I am normally around -15 to -18dB 's, music varies per the recording.

Make sure you set all your speakers to small with a crossover of 80hz in the receiver. Turn the sub crossover all the way up or on bypass setting, to get it out of the way for receiver management. This will give you a good starting point.

Hi Red Orc,

I'm delighted you've got your system sounding great. And those volume levels you are setting are quite normal. For my own system with either M80s or M22s running with an EP500, I find I set my H/K receiver's volume display to a range of -30 dB to -15 dB.

You will some CDs are recorded really "hot" (loud), often 10 dB louder than other discs (a 10 dB increase in volume subjectively sounds "twice as loud" to most listeners), and you may have to throttle back the volume to -30 dB (I'm thinking of a Ray Charles box set I have, and the levels are incredibly hot). Some other CDs have the recorded level set so low that I run the volume up to -12 dB just to get a comfortable playback level. If my CD changer is on random, and a hot CD is selected, I'm almost blasted out of the room.

I've also found that some Dolby Digital 5.1 movie soundtracks, whether from HD cable or from DVDs, are often much lower in level, and I have to crank up the playback level to -12 dB.

So you'll find significant variations in the AV receiver volume settings depending on the source, and that includes wide variations from one broadcast channel to another.

And it's true that I sometimes miss a day or two in scanning our forums when I get busy with other Axiom projects. Eventually--like today--I go through all the forums except for the water cooler.

Regards,
Alan

Alan -30db to -15db is also the typical range for most sober applications with our H/K 635 but I find that with the cable HDTV stations the volume needs to be turned to just above 0 ... and whenever the system gets switched back over for DVDs or music I always get a blast of high volume for a few seconds because I forget to reduce the volume prior to switching from cable HDTV.

Happens every time.

Time to upgrade the receiver Rick. The 3808 let's you set the volumes for each input either higher or lower, also for start up. I have the Denon come on at -33 and I have the Wii input set to be -10 db.

My 806 lets me do that. I am happy to hear that it's normal to have the db level high.
I just ordered the ep500! can't wait to see the sound transformation.
Thank you Alan.

Jovan

Thank you all!

Congrats on the 500 order Jovan. Fun times ahead!