Dubber
Auditioning
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2008
- Messages
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- Real Name
- Grant
Hello all - My name is grant, this is the first time i have posted to this site. i joined up because of an issue i am having.
First off its almost impossible for me to get the full immersive sound i am looking for out of my surround sound.
sounds are not distinct - they more muddle together and create a mesh of difficult to hear music.
bass response is low even though i have what should be a powerful enough subwoofer - when i turn it up, bass becomes way to boomy and powerful.
My surround back speakers are humming - i have hooked up a power cleaner to them, to no avail. still humming at me =(
Its really hard to reach an appropriate level while watching a movie - its too quiet during quiet scenes and way way too loud during loud scenes - causing me to turn it up and down continuously. *now i do wear hearing aides* could be causing some of the problem.. =)
My system as follows
LR- M-Audio BX-8a Active monitor
C - M-Audio BX-8 Active Monitor
SRSL- M-Audio BX-5 Active Monitor
Sub - JBL EP250 Northridge 250 watt 12 inch woofer
Reciever - Yamaha htr-5760 (i am just using the preouts on this none of the amped signals.)
PS3 hooked up with a toslink cable to the reciever
during movies i generally set the reciever to DTS cinema
My setup within the reciever is as follows
LR-large
bass out - subwoofer
crossover - 60
center - large
srsl - small
I used the Yamaha mic to figure out distances and speaker levels.
My room is rather large - but the living room area is not so large maybe 14x14 the whole room
*then the room opens out into the kitchen and to the stairs and the dining room*
If there is anything you guys can reccomend i would love to hear it - i have been seriously considering a preamp - the outlaw 990
would that help with what im describing? if i did that i would get all XLR cables - not sure where i would get them from but thats what id shoot for.
Thanks very much for taking the time to read this!!
First off its almost impossible for me to get the full immersive sound i am looking for out of my surround sound.
sounds are not distinct - they more muddle together and create a mesh of difficult to hear music.
bass response is low even though i have what should be a powerful enough subwoofer - when i turn it up, bass becomes way to boomy and powerful.
My surround back speakers are humming - i have hooked up a power cleaner to them, to no avail. still humming at me =(
Its really hard to reach an appropriate level while watching a movie - its too quiet during quiet scenes and way way too loud during loud scenes - causing me to turn it up and down continuously. *now i do wear hearing aides* could be causing some of the problem.. =)
My system as follows
LR- M-Audio BX-8a Active monitor
C - M-Audio BX-8 Active Monitor
SRSL- M-Audio BX-5 Active Monitor
Sub - JBL EP250 Northridge 250 watt 12 inch woofer
Reciever - Yamaha htr-5760 (i am just using the preouts on this none of the amped signals.)
PS3 hooked up with a toslink cable to the reciever
during movies i generally set the reciever to DTS cinema
My setup within the reciever is as follows
LR-large
bass out - subwoofer
crossover - 60
center - large
srsl - small
I used the Yamaha mic to figure out distances and speaker levels.
My room is rather large - but the living room area is not so large maybe 14x14 the whole room
*then the room opens out into the kitchen and to the stairs and the dining room*
If there is anything you guys can reccomend i would love to hear it - i have been seriously considering a preamp - the outlaw 990
would that help with what im describing? if i did that i would get all XLR cables - not sure where i would get them from but thats what id shoot for.
Thanks very much for taking the time to read this!!