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    Perfect Room Size?

    Thanks guys. I will send the links to my buddies. One is starting discussions with his architect this week. I am using them as guinea pigs - once they are done I will start on mine :D
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    Perfect Room Size?

    Hi I have two buddies who are going to be extending their houses and will be building dedicated HT rooms. Both will be DIY projects of sorts and they asked me if there is a "perfect" room size to have. Something along "if length is x then and height is y then width should be 2/3 x". I...
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    Subwoofer level vs LFE level

    Last night I did the following. I used the internal test tone of the amp to set the levels to 75db. The only problem was that the test tone does not play through the subwoofer at all - it only sweeps through the other speakers. The amp though, does have a signal generator that you can vary...
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    Subwoofer level vs LFE level

    I think the cause of my confusion is the channelling of sound under 90hz to the sub if the Small setting is selected. My understanding is that the pink noise signal is full range (20hz-20khz), so when running with Small the pink noise under 90hz is reproduced by the sub. If I get the chance...
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    Subwoofer level vs LFE level

    Thanks for the replies. Ah, so this explains why the Dolby Digital LFE setting runs to 0db while the DTS LFE settings runs to +10db. So I should then set my DD LFE setting to 0db and DTS LFE setting to +10db. Now when I set the levels of my speakers do I then disconnect the sub. Since...
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    Subwoofer level vs LFE level

    Hi, I hope I am posting this in the correct section. The question I have is one that I am sure has been asked many times before and I hope I am not frustrating anyone by asking again. The question I have concerns setting your speaker levels with a sound meter. I have read threads on this...
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