Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Running Audyssey

As some of you know I have a Denon 2310, which obviously has the Audyssey setup program.

Now, after Audyssey has done its thing, are you guys going in and double checking it? I am wondering if it's worth using an SPL meter to double check it, or if that kind of defeats the purpose. The only things I would want to change for sure is possibly bump the center and sub a few db's, and turn dynamic compression off. My older Onkyo used to get crazy settings with Audyssey so I never even used it.

The older systems were notorious for incorrect settings, the newer versions appear to have things ironed out for the most part. I would still use an SPL meter and double check the settings and it will allow you to increase the volume for those speakers that you want for a better match. If you were to simply adjust by ear you may have a setting too high and for some material it may sound 'off'

My buddy has an SPL meter I can borrow, so no big deal to double check it. I just didn't want to waste time for worse results if Audyssey would do a better job.

The auto setup programs are very good now but you never know, some background noise etc. could cause an issue and the settings could be off.

The old systems (other than some Onkyo's) simply balanced the speakers. The new ones try to hit 75db.

While it doesn't hurt to use the SPL, keep in mind that both the SPL and mic can be off by +/- 2db.

If it gives you peace of mind to double check your system once to make sure the auto setup and Audyssey are working properly and you can borrow a meter then you might as well. Even on my older Denon and now my new Onkyo all speakers are always within 1dB of each other.

With the current version of Audyssey on my Onkyo I’m not even checking or tweaking it anymore because it’s making better settings than I can.

I agree Grunt, I used to follow up on my Denon 2805 setup routine, which was pretty darn accurate. The only thing I changed was to set my 80's and 150 to small. Since Denon uses 40hz and 3dB roll off to determine small/large, they came up large. People think it is Audyssey that sets this, it is the receiver AVR. I have the 80's crossed over at 60hz.

My older Denon was somewhat random in setting large/small but my new Onkyo set all my speakers to small even the L/R mains which it also set a 40Hz crossover so I guess Onkyo uses a different cutoff. I’m really convinced now that something was wrong with my Denon or it’s mic but now I have no issues with the settings made by the Onkyo since the whole system has never sounded this good before so for now I don’t plan on doing much tweaking.

I’m assuming that since my M80s are out away from walls/corners I’ve been getting pretty even bass response from them even before the Onkyo. But I am very impressed with the smother bass response from the EP500 that the updated version of Audyssey is giving. I may experiment with setting the M80s to 80Hz just to see what the finer filters that Audyssey applies to the LFE channel do but like I said I’m already quite impressed with what it’s doing under the current settings:

L/R M80s small 40Hz
C M80 small 50Hz
All 4 QS8s small 100Hz

I have the sub directly behind my seating about 5 feet back so even though the QS8s are crossed over at 100 I’m not getting any localization of the bass.

I checked my SPL measurements just for the heck of it, and Audyssey set my speakers within +/-2db within 75db on my Denon 590. Sub was a little on the hot side, but I like it that way anyway.

^Good to know

I like the sub (and centre) a few db high as well.