Onkyo 805

[CasualKiller]

So after a lot of looking around and reading up on receivers I went and picked up an 805 the other day, ran the calibration< Audyssey> then ended up turning it off, not sure if it is because of the PS3 or what but any non movie audio sounded horrible, it had absolutely no bass.

Tested 2 movies, AVPR and Rambo, both sounded absolutely perfect. Went to my PS3, played a couple of demos I downloaded, no bass, tried an actual game, same deal. Even MP3's sounded very bad.

I have the PS3 set to LPCM audio via HDMI.

When I ran the calibration I had propped the microphone up into my listening position.

I tried almost all of the preset listening modes.

Anyone have any idea on what I can do too fix this?

[crackinhedz]

did you set the speakers to small, and LFE to yes or on?

[CasualKiller]

Pretty sure the LFE is working, when I had Rambo in, my living room sounded like WW3.

Didn't see any options to set small / large speakers however.

Starting to wonder if its my PS3

Just went and turned Audyssey back on and tested again to make sure:

Sunshine: lots of bass
Rambo: lots of bass
Wipeout HD trailer: alarm clock radio sound.
2 MP3's: same bass less tone as the trailer.
Haze: very empty explosions and the gunshots sound very bad
Guitar Hero 3: very empty sounding.

[crackinhedz]

looking through the 805 manual, i did not see options for "Large" or "Small", I guess Onkyo's way of setting this is by setting the crossover frequency. What frequency do your fronts handle? set that as the cutoff?

...so movies sound good, but games sound like they lack bass?

[crackinhedz]

...also, I was playing guitar hero 3 just a minute ago...not too much low frequency associated with rock&roll...wouldn't expect a whole lot from that game!

[CasualKiller]

Yeah I gave up and just turned it completely off. What I ended up doing was:

> Measured and input all the distances manually.

> Set the frequencies of the speakers based off of what people had posted in other forums until I found a setting I liked and ended up with:

Center - 100HZ
Fronts - 40HZ
Surrounds - 120HZ
Subwoofer - 120HZ

Used the manual controls on the sub itself to bring the bass and LFE to a level I enjoyed.

> Friend brought over his SPL meter. I'm unfamiliar with this but he used the test tones to set all my speaker levels.

All in all everything sounds great now. I am however still stumped as to why I would have good audio from blu rays and almost like a clock radio tone from other sources.

[nezff]

Originally Posted by CasualKiller

Yeah I gave up and just turned it completely off. What I ended up doing was:

> Measured and input all the distances manually.

> Set the frequencies of the speakers based off of what people had posted in other forums until I found a setting I liked and ended up with:

Center - 100HZ
Fronts - 40HZ
Surrounds - 120HZ
Subwoofer - 120HZ

Used the manual controls on the sub itself to bring the bass and LFE to a level I enjoyed.

> Friend brought over his SPL meter. I'm unfamiliar with this but he used the test tones to set all my speaker levels.

All in all everything sounds great now. I am however still stumped as to why I would have good audio from blu rays and almost like a clock radio tone from other sources.

what speakers do you have, I can help you out with getting more out of your sub.
I have RF62s set at 80hz
RC62 set at 80hz
RS42s set at 80hz
and RW10d set at 120hz.