Lee M T
Second Unit
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2002
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I may just be the first person that feels unsatisfied. But perhaps I'm not doing something correctly.
My 25-31PCi came in last Friday. I set it up on Saturday and have been toying with it since. I do not yet have an SPL meter, so my concern right now is not how the sub interacts with my other speakers. I'll worry about that problem when I get my meter at the end of the week. My problem is just bass in general.
My system consists of a Yamaha RX-V640 receiver, Mirage Omni 60 bookshelves, and Mirage Omni CC center channel. I have no rears just yet. My room is 11' x 10' x 9'. My theater setup is along the shorter side of my room, the 10' side. I'm wondering if perhaps I'm having standing wave issues or something? My system won't work on the 11' side because my stupid closet and main doors are horribly placed.
With such a small room, one would think my room would implode, but quite the contrary. The first thing I did was set the gain to a 1/4. Actually, not sure where to start the gain at? Then, I placed my sub at my listening position and then walked around the room. I really didn't get much at all. Some high bass, maybe 60-70 Hz got really loud, but 40Hz and below just sounded extremely dead and flat. Not much definition and just is not loud at all. So, I just picked a corner and placed the sub there. It's right along the front with my other speakers. It sits right next to my left bookshelf speaker in a corner. I go to my listening position which is about 7.5' away and still, I really don't get much. No jaw dropping experience. Sometimes I'll get some low bass that will wow me, but for the most part, as I said, 40Hz and below just sounds dead and I don't even feel it really.
The material I used are as follows:
Music
Dave Mathews (Sounds really good on my system actually)
Nelly Furtado
Three 6 Mafia: The End (This album will pound you into submission in my car, but not in my room)
Brian Setzer (This sounds good too)
Bass Mechanic (high bass sounds good, 40 and below is nonexistent)
Games
Metal Gear Solid 2 (DD portions sound almost perfect, PLII portions, like the intro sequence, sound boomy and inaccurate, but the bass seems enough)
Ratchet & Clank II (Enough bass, but lacks definition, too boomy)
Movies
The Two Towers (inaccurate, boomy, sometimes there is loud enough bass though, but sometimes not so much)
Any thoughts? Surely this isn't an SPL meter fix is it? That should just be for evening out all of my speakers correct? I'm thinking it's a standing wave issue, or something that really just needs a new room to fix? hehe Oh yeah, another thing. I hear talk about wind coming out of the port "like a hurricane" and what not. There is virtually no air coming out of my port, ever. But I can feel the sub down below moving a lot. It's so strange.
Thanks,
Lee
My 25-31PCi came in last Friday. I set it up on Saturday and have been toying with it since. I do not yet have an SPL meter, so my concern right now is not how the sub interacts with my other speakers. I'll worry about that problem when I get my meter at the end of the week. My problem is just bass in general.
My system consists of a Yamaha RX-V640 receiver, Mirage Omni 60 bookshelves, and Mirage Omni CC center channel. I have no rears just yet. My room is 11' x 10' x 9'. My theater setup is along the shorter side of my room, the 10' side. I'm wondering if perhaps I'm having standing wave issues or something? My system won't work on the 11' side because my stupid closet and main doors are horribly placed.
With such a small room, one would think my room would implode, but quite the contrary. The first thing I did was set the gain to a 1/4. Actually, not sure where to start the gain at? Then, I placed my sub at my listening position and then walked around the room. I really didn't get much at all. Some high bass, maybe 60-70 Hz got really loud, but 40Hz and below just sounded extremely dead and flat. Not much definition and just is not loud at all. So, I just picked a corner and placed the sub there. It's right along the front with my other speakers. It sits right next to my left bookshelf speaker in a corner. I go to my listening position which is about 7.5' away and still, I really don't get much. No jaw dropping experience. Sometimes I'll get some low bass that will wow me, but for the most part, as I said, 40Hz and below just sounds dead and I don't even feel it really.
The material I used are as follows:
Music
Dave Mathews (Sounds really good on my system actually)
Nelly Furtado
Three 6 Mafia: The End (This album will pound you into submission in my car, but not in my room)
Brian Setzer (This sounds good too)
Bass Mechanic (high bass sounds good, 40 and below is nonexistent)
Games
Metal Gear Solid 2 (DD portions sound almost perfect, PLII portions, like the intro sequence, sound boomy and inaccurate, but the bass seems enough)
Ratchet & Clank II (Enough bass, but lacks definition, too boomy)
Movies
The Two Towers (inaccurate, boomy, sometimes there is loud enough bass though, but sometimes not so much)
Any thoughts? Surely this isn't an SPL meter fix is it? That should just be for evening out all of my speakers correct? I'm thinking it's a standing wave issue, or something that really just needs a new room to fix? hehe Oh yeah, another thing. I hear talk about wind coming out of the port "like a hurricane" and what not. There is virtually no air coming out of my port, ever. But I can feel the sub down below moving a lot. It's so strange.
Thanks,
Lee