Audyssey MultEQ: Questions and Answers - Onkyo, Denon, et. al. - Page 6

jaysonbarnett · 06-23-2008, 11:18 AM

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If you haven't moved anything and your speakers are not set to Full Band then the results should be very close to the first time you ran MultEQ.

I wonder if one of your speakers may have a damaged driver since the last time you calibrated. Do you have a DVD with pink noise? I would suggest playing it from each of the speakers and checking each of the drivers to see if they are producing sound.

Thanx chris and i do love audyssey. I will use my rives disk to see if i do have a blown driver. The only added thing to my living room is a new couch. Thanx again.

CraigF · 06-23-2008, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by audyssey

The Audyssey curve is Flat from 20 Hz and applies a slight high frequency rolloff at 10 kHz and above. The Audyssey Flat curve is Flat out to 20 kHz. There is no bass boost in either of them and their room correction performance in the bass is identical.

Chris

Thanks Chris. You are of course correct, the curves differ in the HF...my poor memory after looking at too many screens and speakers... And I can get my LFE boost if wanted for some movies by the sub channel level control without ruining the majority of the Audyssey setup, so that's easy.

David Willow · 07-16-2008, 10:07 PM

I ran into an issue last week when I setup my new Axiom speakers. I replaced my old Fluance with M60's, VP150, and 4 QS8's from Axiom Audio. I ran Audyssey MultEX on my Onkyo 705 and it had errors detecting the M60's. I had an issue with one of the speakers and had Axiom replace it. Even after the replacement, Audyssey would not detect either of my mains. After much experimenting with placement, replacing wires, and testing the speakers with DVE, I was satisfied that the speakers were working correctly.

I tried Audyssey one more time just to see if it would work. To my surprise it did. So later in the evening I ran it for real (intending to do 8 positions) and it once again failed to detect the mains. Eventually I figured out if I lowered the mic by a few inches, everything worked correctly.

In the past (and at first with my new speakers), I had the mic about 3 inches above the back of the couch (about my ear level). Now, I have to keep it less than an inch above the back of the couch or it does not work. Any idea why this happens with these new speakers? (BTW - My couch is nowhere near the back wall).

I got it working and it still sounds great. I'm just curious what is happening.

audyssey · 07-17-2008, 04:08 AM

Hi David,

That sounds odd. 3 inches should not make a difference on the detection of the speaker. What is the error you are getting? Phase or speaker not detected?

Chris

David Willow · 07-17-2008, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by audyssey

Hi David,

That sounds odd. 3 inches should not make a difference on the detection of the speaker. What is the error you are getting? Phase or speaker not detected?

Chris

Yes, it seemed strange. I got "speaker not detected" errors on both mains. I could only select cancel or retry.

Vin_G · 08-14-2008, 04:20 PM

Audyssey Chris (If you mind me calling you that

I just bought and Onkyo 805 receiver and will be setting it up with the Audyssey. However I previously purchased the Velodyne SMS-1 subwoofer eq. Can the Velodyne serve a purpose here or is it redundant?

audyssey · 08-24-2008, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Vin_G

Audyssey Chris (If you mind me calling you that

I just bought and Onkyo 805 receiver and will be setting it up with the Audyssey. However I previously purchased the Velodyne SMS-1 subwoofer eq. Can the Velodyne serve a purpose here or is it redundant?

Hi Vince,

Sorry for the delay, but for some reason I didn't get a notification email of your posting...

Anyway, I would first recommend trying it without the SMS-1 in the path. If you do decide to use both, you should run the SMS-1 first and then run MultEQ through it.

Chris

Milano33 · 08-28-2008, 04:02 AM

Hi all,

I have a Denon AVC A11 XVA with Teufel Theater 8 5.1 Speakers, both THX Ultra 2. I did the set up using Audyssey. Should I then make any manual changes or not? For example, should I manually change the indication for the subwoofer to THX and lock the cross over frequency to the THX standard, or should I leave everything as determined by the setup?

Many thanks,

Etienne

audyssey · 08-28-2008, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Milano33

Hi all,

I have a Denon AVC A11 XVA with Teufel Theater 8 5.1 Speakers, both THX Ultra 2. I did the set up using Audyssey. Should I then make any manual changes or not? For example, should I manually change the indication for the subwoofer to THX and lock the cross over frequency to the THX standard, or should I leave everything as determined by the setup?

Many thanks,

Etienne

MultEQ measures the speakers in the room and will recommend a crossover that may be different from 80 Hz, based on the interaction of the speakers with the room. What values did MultEQ return for the crossovers?

Please note that the subwoofer low pass filter in the AVC should be set to 120 Hz. It is incorrect to set it anywhere else because that is how the LFE track is encoded. This low pass filter only affects the LFE track and not the bass being directed to the subwoofer from the satellite speakers.

Make sure the subwoofer mode is LFE-THX in the AVC.

Chris

John Dirk · 09-01-2008, 06:06 PM

When I run Audyssey on my Onkyo 805, I get results similar to those reported by others in this thread, i.e. extremely low setting of my LFE level, a large setting for my fronts, and lower levels for my side and rear surrounds than I prefer. Of course, these things are all easily correctable, but I cannot find a way to save my settings once I get things the way I want them. Everytime I turn on the receiver, it reverts back to what Audyssey originally set [except the "large" setting for the fronts]. So my question is simple. Is there a way to save the settings I want, or am I just out of luck.

Thanks in advance for any insight

John

John Dirk · 09-04-2008, 10:34 PM

Seems to be saving my settings now, though I don't know what changed.

John