Newbie to speaker calabration

[reein]

Hey all I am a new member here and also new to speaker calibration. I have been looking on line and here for tips on how to calibrate my speakers. Now I have a few questions I need answered before I start to make sure I understand it.

1. In guides I have read it says to adjust your master volume to say 75db before calibration. Does this mean I just start turning up the volume on my reciever till my spl meter reads 75db while playing the test tone that is built into my reciever?

2. After that I should be able to cycle though my speakers with the built in test tone and change the level of volume for each of them to be at the same db level. Does this have to be at 75db also for each speaker? I am assuming yes but do i just pick a speaker as the sample (say the center) and start adjusting ther rest of the speakers around what this one is set to?

3. Is it beter to have the reciever do the crossover for my sub or since my sub has nob for crossover should I let it handle it?

I hope those are not to newbie questions but this has been confusing me for a while now and I would really like to get my system setup somewhat correctly. If you need to know what I have for compents I can tell you.

Thanks

[zicmubleu]

Originally Posted by reein

Hey all I am a new member here and also new to speaker calibration. I have been looking on line and here for tips on how to calibrate my speakers. Now I have a few questions I need answered before I start to make sure I understand it.

1. In guides I have read it says to adjust your master volume to say 75db before calibration. Does this mean I just start turning up the volume on my reciever till my spl meter reads 75db while playing the test tone that is built into my reciever?

2. After that I should be able to cycle though my speakers with the built in test tone and change the level of volume for each of them to be at the same db level. Does this have to be at 75db also for each speaker? I am assuming yes but do i just pick a speaker as the sample (say the center) and start adjusting ther rest of the speakers around what this one is set to?

3. Is it beter to have the reciever do the crossover for my sub or since my sub has nob for crossover should I let it handle it?

I hope those are not to newbie questions but this has been confusing me for a while now and I would really like to get my system setup somewhat correctly. If you need to know what I have for compents I can tell you.

Thanks

I think you will do better if you ask your question in the audio theory section of this forum. There is a sticky about receiver calibration that you should read through as best as you can and then ask your question in there. The only part that I am somewhat certain about is your question 3, you would set your subwoofer crossover to the highest setting and do the actual crossover in the receiver settings. The receiver setting should be a lower frequency than the sub's to prevent the sub from attenuating the higher frequencies in the sub's range it receives. I would also say that once you start the calibration you don't change the master volume setting, the system will be making adjustments to balance the speakers based on what the microphone detects internally in the system.