Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Calibration

That's quite funny Ringmir.

I guess I was bored (and creative?) In all seriousness, I will just do as Ajax has said and stand off to one side. I have the analog meter and the numbers are a little small but I should be able to read it. I think I read here a little while back that it was discontinued? If that is the case I guess I was lucky that the store by my girlfriend had a few of them.

Ringmir,
Radio Shack actually started producing the analog meters again, so it could be a brand spankin' new one you've got there.

Quite possible. It looks different than the analog meter listed in the step-by-step setup article. It is the same as the one on radioshack's website.

The one in the step-by-step article is the old, discontinued model. If yours is a smaller model with slightly curved sides, you've got the new one.

The new model number is (I think) 33-4050.

ringmir,
If you live in CA, you can get the S&V disc for about $15
at Fry's. Definitely, get a tripod. It makes adjustments
a lot easier. I got my digital SPL meter at Radio Shack
last week and everything came together. I tried calibrating
with the analog version, holding it with one hand while adjusting the speaker levels with other. That was a pain.
I got a lot of suggestions from the board members. Hope
that helps. Good luck.

stevel

Good God Men !!!
I just spent three weeks trying to make a decision on speaker system...Now i got to decide on a calibration disc. Your killing me here ; ) Do they come in rock/blues/country formats or must you deal with elevator music ; )

I have always wondered this. I am somewhat new to calibrating. I just re-read the step by step instructions on the first post here, and am still confused.

IF the first step is to set all speakers to 0db, then to turn up the MASTER volume on the front left speaker test tone until you hit 75db, won't adjusting the other speakers really just be at about +/- 1 or 2db? That's what I find anyway....am I doing something wrong?

I had a friend come over who installs HT's, and he calibrated it by ear and he turned up my fronts to about a +6 and my rears to +10db...I liked this sound better cause I could hear the rears more Are there other instructions I am missing?

Please help!!!

Setting all the speakers to 0dB in that sense isn't too important. You need to set the front left to 0, turn up the master until you register 75dB on the front left, and then in turn adjust each of the other speakers individually to 75dB. Does that make sense? Basically you are setting the relative offsets for each speaker with respect to the front left.

Also (at least on my reciever), the settings for equalizing the speakers are stored independently from any individual speaker ajdustment I make for a given playback format. So, once in the setup menu I've equalized everything, if I then start to playback something in Dolby Digital, all my speakers are listed as being at 0dB and I can turn up the rears if I want. But I know that at least I'm adjusting from an even starting point.