Calibrating your speakers...

[Driver_King]

This is not an informative thread but is about calibration and your speakers. I have previously only let Audyssey adjust my system and have not done any adjustments whatsoever to the settings it gave me. I got a little curious last night when I was getting a bit annoyed at how some of the songs only playing through my front SDA speakers had a huge lack of bass. I adjusted the tone control on my Onkyo 805 a few dB's for bass and a couple dB's for treble to make up for the bass increase. Wow. Just wow. Subs? What subs? The sound coming from my speakers are better than having subwoofers right about now. It still sounds better at lower frequencies with my subwoofers playing, however. I used to be a huge tweaker with speakers since all the speakers I owned in the past have been inferior to these SDA's and they really needed it. Just adjusting the bass on my fronts and LFE bass for stereo use has really made a huge difference. I remember why I really enjoyed tweaking my subs now. I'm definitely going to decouple my fronts from the floor now. That will definitely help increase bass detail from what it is now. So if you haven't taken time to screw around with the bass/treble on your front speakers (or surround speakers if you listen in all channel stereo or multichannel music) or bass on your subwoofer(s), you need to!