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    Pint Sized Power: SVS's 3000 Micro Subwoofer and Prime Wireless Speaker 2.1 System Review

    The micro is a feat of engineering but most people should just make room for 2 inches more in every direction and get an svs sb 1000 pro which goes a little lower in the frequency response and costs $300 less. If they got the micro down to about an 8 or 9 in cube going down to about 28 hz I...
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    Center channel speaker

    Bump up the level of the CC by 2-3 db in the speaker settings after running Audyssey properly. IF CC is under the TV, use some acoustic foam angled at 10 degrees to direct the sound to the MLP. If that doesn't help, I would highly recommend an inexpensive 3 way center channel from the...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    jtalden I got a chance to do some eq with the multieq editor app and I moved the sub back closer to the wall by about 6 in and then redo the alignment and the results are much better! I want to thank you. I improved the L+R and then aligned the CC. It's not perfection but now the variation is...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Audyssey does let me change distances, individual xovers, and levels while leaving multieq xt32 ON. OK, interesting, I had no idea the implied next step is to look at the alignment of other channels with respect to SW after aligning FL/FR with SW and then change distances of each speaker. Wow...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    But if there is only one subwoofer distance that you can change, how would you have different timings for the center vs for the FL/FR? You would make changes to the FL/FR distances? But dont those distances need to correspond roughly to the actual distance? It seems like you would have to...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Excuse me for being new to all this, but I just want to take a step back on theory here and ask what is maybe a dumb question. I am confused as to why everyone time aligns their SW to main Left and Right speakers in a home theater when 80% of the output in a movie is in the center channel and...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Thanks so much for sharing your data. I looked through it and was using the alignment tool to duplicate what you did. Super helpful. But then I took my L+ R measurement and tried to align with the sub using the settings you recommend, and the SPL over the XO region doesn't look as smooth as it...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Thanks for your analysis and the graphs. Audyssey would allow me to make changes to the speakers and SW target curves in the multieq editor app. I was thinking I could boost the mains and sub by a few db from around 60-120 to see if there is any improvement. I was wondering is applying 1/24...
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    Onkyo RZ50 Owners thread

    I would say that is definitely a disappointment for bass lovers. Is the new top Pioneer Elite model the same without independent sub outs?
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Measurements correctly done with xovers at 80 and 90 for comparison. I also did L alone and R alone. Comparing to my sub alone measurement at 250 Hz, I didnt realize how much the sub was being attenuated by the filter really starting at 60.
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Good eye. Yes you are right I thought that I needed to measure the sub with the XO set to 250 Hz, and I had the mains set to Large. The mains are SVS Prime Satellites so that is why they appeared small on the graph. The sub is an SVS SB1000 Pro. If you think it is necessary, I can rerun those...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Replaced my yamaha with a denon x4500h that has multieq XT32. The subwoofer got nicely smoothed out by Denon. Trying to pick the right delay now. Using one sub. I ran some measurements. Using the alignment tool, I came up with a distance of 17.5 feet. Note that the sub alone and L+R alone...
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    Onkyo RZ50 Owners thread

    Do you have to pay extra for Dirac Live bass management? I have read with other Dirac systems dlbm costs $350 for one subwoofer and $500 for two subwoofers.
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    Thanks for the offer jtalden. I am away from home for 2 weeks but when I get back I may share some measurements. Another question though : in this thread you recommend taking individual L and R measurements and then use the Arithmetic trace to sum them and align that arithmetic trace to the sub...
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    REW Alignment tool - Guides or Manual?

    So I did some experimenting. I tried manually implementing a sub delay where the SPL looked good in the alignment tool and set not too far from the distance determined by YPAO (about 5 feet higher). But then if I click Align phase slope at cursor, it gave me a much larger distance of 18 feet...
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