What sound curve do you use?

[ROSS.T.G.]

This discussion made me revaluate the curves. I've been doing some comparing back and forth last night and this morning with the Flat and Reference and I realized why I started to like the Flat curve. I have been using the Reference curve since I purchased the Marantz and also because Marantz recommends this curve. A few weeks ago I purchased new fabric theatre seating that seemed to absorb much more high frequency than my previous leather couch did. I also had a leftover sub riser which I placed in between my center channel stand and mopad risers to get more height. These 2 changes made me think a Flat curve would work better and it did for most Blu-ray content. However this past weekend we started season 2 of Narcos and I also played a lot of Star Wars Battlefront and watched Scream Factory's release of The Funhouse. The Flat curve sounded horrible for The Funhouse BD which was way too harsh. Narcos also sounded a little harsh and Battlefront was lacking the warmth and low end I was used to.

I removed the subwoofer riser leaving my center on top of the mopad riser angled up slightly and pushed back my center a few inches to perfectly align with my front speakers and reran Audyssey leaving it in the default Refrence curve.

Conclusion is it's much better. My center was angled up too much which was causing the problem of me not hearing voices clearly and because the center speaker was closer the trim was low at -8.5 db. After the calibration last night my center channel trim is now at -7.5db The tonal balance is back with the Reference curve and it actually sounds much better. The extra absorption from the theatre seating really helps as well.