Couple questions about Yamaha RX-A3060

[William Lemmerhirt]

what you don't like sports?

Lol. Yep. I like 2 ball sports. Like drag racing, motocross, wake boarding, and X-games kind of things. You know, it takes 2 "balls" to do.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Lol. Yep. I like 2 ball sports. Like drag racing, motocross, wake boarding, and X-games kind of things. You know, it takes 2 "balls" to do.

I do watch football too.

 

[lovinthehd]

you couldn't be more right my friend .. you know what is wired though .. for a guy who loves movies, i haven't been in a cinema for over than 4 years.. can you believe it?!

I've been living in places last many years where there aren't movie theaters or they're a very long drive, one reason I expanded my in-home capabilities. Movie theaters also tend to be more poorly run more and more these days and then charge a fortune too and ya can't put it on pause to go grab a drink or take a break...besides, I think my home audio setups sound better than most theaters now. Still using tvs, someday I'll put together a room suitable for a projector/screen setup.

One comment on why you can't check crossover when your avr has set a speaker to large---because there isn't one when you set your speakers to large (which essentially tells the avr "I don't want to use bass management for this speaker").

 

[Pogre]

I agree. I have a lowly 58" pansy plasma, lol but the only thing for me to consider is an OLED. I'm about 16' away and it's just too small. Here's the front of my room. That little 58 just gets swallows up!

Pardon the mess. That was shot a Christmas time.

I've been wanting to see your setup! Are those B&W speakers? They look similar to (but nicer) the DM570's I had.

*Edit: Nice space you have there too.

 

[Hasan Alnajdi]

I agree. I have a lowly 58" pansy plasma, lol but the only thing for me to consider is an OLED. I'm about 16' away and it's just too small. Here's the front of my room. That little 58 just gets swallows up!

Pardon the mess. That was shot a Christmas time.

on the contrary it looks quite lovely.. lot of sunlight for my taste though for I am a vampire type of person.. since I live in kuwait I have experienced enough sunlight for more than 10 life times

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

I've been wanting to see your setup! Are those B&W speakers? They look similar to (but nicer) the DM570's I had.

Those are JBL studio II's. been a little shy about posting pics but...

 

[Hasan Alnajdi]

One comment on why you can't check crossover when your avr has set a speaker to large---because there isn't one when you set your speakers to large (which essentially tells the avr "I don't want to use bass management for this speaker").

that is exactly why I turned the low pass to minimum.. for there was no crossover at all.. once it calibrated .. i did it manually

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

on the contrary it looks quite lovely.. lot of sunlight for my taste though for I am a vampire type of person.. since I live in kuwait I have experienced enough sunlight for more than 10 life times

Lol! Thanks.
That was shot early in the day with sun reflecting off of the snow outside. fwiw I hate winter.

This is at night, and if I leave the panel lights off it's pitch black.

 

[Pogre]

I have a 58" Vizio, but sit a little closer than william. I still think it's too small,

 

[lovinthehd]

that is exactly why I turned the low pass to minimum.. for there was no crossover at all.. once it calibrated .. i did it manually

You mean the low pass on the sub itself? Or the LPF of LFE, which would have nothing to do with a crossover? When using any bass management in the avr I'd leave the low pass on the sub dialed up to max (if there is an "LFE" input on the sub it often bypasses the sub's low pass filter altogether). I'd just leave the LPF of LFE set to 120 at all times.

 

[Pogre]

Those are JBL studio II's. been a little shy about posting pics but...

You shouldn't be. That's a nice looking setup.

 

[Pogre]

Lol! Thanks.
That was shot early in the day with sun reflecting off of the snow outside. fwiw I hate winter.

This is at night, and if I leave the panel lights off it's pitch black.

The vampire room! Kinda hard to see, but that looks like a great space to watch movies.

 

[Pogre]

You mean the low pass on the sub itself? Or the LPF of LFE, which would have nothing to do with a crossover? When using any bass management in the avr I'd leave the low pass on the sub dialed up to max (if there is an "LFE" input on the sub it often bypasses the sub's low pass filter altogether). I'd just leave the LPF of LFE set to 120 at all times.

I was wondering the same. His low pass on the sub itself should be turned all the way to the right to bypass it.

 

[lovinthehd]

Lol! Thanks.
That was shot early in the day with sun reflecting off of the snow outside. fwiw I hate winter.

This is at night, and if I leave the panel lights off it's pitch black.

Dark enough for a projector! My room is too light in the day to get away with it, have to someday build one in the basement. Which Studio speakers are you using? This last summer I got a set of 590s L/R, 520c, 530 surrounds, like them a lot.

 

[Hasan Alnajdi]

You mean the low pass on the sub itself? Or the LPF of LFE, which would have nothing to do with a crossover? When using any bass management in the avr I'd leave the low pass on the sub dialed up to max (if there is an "LFE" input on the sub it often bypasses the sub's low pass filter altogether). I'd just leave the LPF of LFE set to 120 at all times.

I mean the low pass on the sub itself.. I tried it 3 ways .. one was maximum.. then I changed it to the middle .. then I took it all the way down.. I have no LPF setting that I noticed anywhere.. but from what I noticed it seems not by pass the low filter altogether for there were different result.. the best one i experienced is the latter

 

[Hasan Alnajdi]

Lol! Thanks.
That was shot early in the day with sun reflecting off of the snow outside. fwiw I hate winter.

This is at night, and if I leave the panel lights off it's pitch black.

that's more like it

 

[Hasan Alnajdi]

I have a 58" Vizio, but sit a little closer than william. I still think it's too small,

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quite minimal .. I love it!!

 

[lovinthehd]

I mean the low pass on the sub itself.. I tried it 3 ways .. one was maximum.. then I changed it to the middle .. then I took it all the way down.. I have no LPF setting that I noticed anywhere.. but from what I noticed it seems not by pass the low filter altogether for there were different result.. the best one i experienced is the latter

If you have the low pass that low (40 or 50hz I'm guessing for most subs) then you're somewhat duplicating the low pass your avr provides. Some do it, but usually not recommended particularly. You do need some quality subs, tho (big difference).

ps Meant to add that your subs may have an artificial boost in the neighborhood of where you're duplicating the low pass so that could be partly why it sounds better.

 

[Hasan Alnajdi]

ps Meant to add that your subs may have an artificial boost in the neighborhood of where you're duplicating the low pass so that could be partly why it sounds better.

can you elaborate more please?

 

[lovinthehd]

A lot of the lower end subs don't dig very deeply (below 30hz) and often have accentuating mid-bass in the 50-70hz range. At least I think remember you have some of Polk's lower end ones?