How to bi-amp onkyo 706

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Originally Posted by dewd

Audyssey correctly measured your speaker IN YOUR ROOM. What the speaker does (or what the manufacturer claims) does not translate to your room. By turning it down, you not only lose the corrections below the Audyssey discovered value, but you potentially have a hole in your sound (if the speaker can't play below 150hz, why force it).

My room isn't going to change the frequency range that my speaker is physically capable of reproducing. Audyssey is just a starting point for calibration... but I would never just run Audyssey and call it done. In my case, it sets my mains and my side surrounds to full, and turns on double bass.... which IMO.... sounds pretty bad. After running Audyssey, I change my crossover settings to match my personal preferences, and then use an SPL meter to more accurately match my individual speaker levels.

Now if I had one of those really nice external Audyssey equalizers, it might be a whole other story... but the very basic version that comes in my receiver is definitely not good enough to be the be all end all of calibration. I've tried using just Audyssey. I've tried setting all of my settings manually. For me, running Audyssey and then tweaking it to my personal preferences is definitely the best solution.