To Audyssey or not to Audyssey...Your Opinions? - Blu-ray Forum

Hillside Trece · 12-14-2010, 02:50 AM

I realize, through site research, that this has been discussed sometimes ad nauseum on this forum in one way or another, but I'd like to focus directly on this topic instead of other people's individual calibration issues -- those of you with the Audyssey auto cal/room correction system baked into your AVRs (and perhaps those with AVRs that boast proprietary systems like Yamaha's), how do you feel about Audyssey? Are you running it, or do you leave it defeated, along with the EQ curve it sets?

Boy -- I know this topic is overtly polarizing, but to me, I just didn't like the results I was getting from my Onkyo 605's 2EQ setup (which I realize is the weakest version Audyssey makes)...the EQ curve seemed to activate the cinema re-EQ kind of application/algorithm and blanketed/smothered my high frequencies...the distances were close enough, but the crossovers were all over the place (I know, an Onkyo implementation) and the channel trims always changed each time I ran the program. This just turned me off, so I adjusted my channels myself, manually measured my distances, left EQ off (thinking it was the closest way to hear the soundtrack the way engineers intended) and entered crossover points manually.

What do you guys do...do you definitely run Audyssey and feel it must be used, no matter what? Do you use the system for baseline settings and then adjust from there? Do you leave it off completely, manually tweaking EQ or leaving EQ off and use an SPL meter, or set the channels to taste?

12-14-2010, 02:50 AM	#1
Hillside Trece Banned Member since:Nov 2010	To Audyssey or not to Audyssey...Your Opinions? I realize, through site research, that this has been discussed sometimes ad nauseum on this forum in one way or another, but I'd like to focus directly on this topic instead of other people's individual calibration issues -- those of you with the Audyssey auto cal/room correction system baked into your AVRs (and perhaps those with AVRs that boast proprietary systems like Yamaha's), how do you feel about Audyssey? Are you running it, or do you leave it defeated, along with the EQ curve it sets? Boy -- I know this topic is overtly polarizing, but to me, I just didn't like the results I was getting from my Onkyo 605's 2EQ setup (which I realize is the weakest version Audyssey makes)...the EQ curve seemed to activate the cinema re-EQ kind of application/algorithm and blanketed/smothered my high frequencies...the distances were close enough, but the crossovers were all over the place (I know, an Onkyo implementation) and the channel trims always changed each time I ran the program. This just turned me off, so I adjusted my channels myself, manually measured my distances, left EQ off (thinking it was the closest way to hear the soundtrack the way engineers intended) and entered crossover points manually. What do you guys do...do you definitely run Audyssey and feel it must be used, no matter what? Do you use the system for baseline settings and then adjust from there? Do you leave it off completely, manually tweaking EQ or leaving EQ off and use an SPL meter, or set the channels to taste?

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