Onkyo 7.1 Speaker Systems - any good?

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Originally Posted by gearyt

I am guessing you received the 605 / 606 receiver
have you run the Audyssey ??
check your menu's in set-up for the intellvolume and turn off

Originally Posted by fireman325

Some receivers (mine is an Onkyo 605-guessed correctly above) allow you to adjust the volume level to each individual speaker. There are no knobs for this, it's all done in the receiver's setup menu. My Onkyo also has a setting called intellivolume that allows you to boost the overall output without having to turn the volume up as loud. Supposedly, this reduces strain on your receiver somehow, but I'm not sure about this.

And yes I used the Audyssey, but didn't care for it's settings too much. I kept the distance settings, but changed about everything else, and the settings listed in my post above were the settings I ended up with before I upgraded my speakers. After I got all the new speakers in place, I re-ran Audyssey, and then tweaked a little to my liking. I set all my individual speaker levels at 0 though, because everything is pretty evenly spaced in relation to the main seating position (being the sofa). I'm sure it's not a perfect calibration, but I don't have an SPL meter and it sounds really good to me.

oh ok. i have the onkyo ht-s5100. it does have the audyssey feature i just found out, but i've never used it and probably don't plan to. i let the professionals handle that and they already have.