I haven't looked at the settings on my sub or in the AVR lately but felt like it was time to review settings, mainly because of a new member in the household, and things tend to get touched. Anyway, I have a smallish room. 12 1/2 ' across, the couch is about is about 11' feet or so from the speakers. This is the main listening area. The room also opens to a small foyer and a den. The entire room ultimately extends another 14 feet behind the couch, which is the dining area.
My sub is small. Rythmik F12. I know the general consensus around here. Small sealed subs are basically a waste. But it's all I got right now, and there is really no room for a second one. I checked the volume on it, it's a couple of clicks past halfway. See attached image. When I ran YPAO I seem to remember reading somewhere that you should turn your sub volume up to where your RC software sets the sub volume in the AVR to about 0.0 dB. My speakers are Ascend Acoustic towers. I'm not a real bass nut, I just wanted something to supplement the towers for movies. Like said, I know a bigger or multiple subs is probably the answer. But is there a rule of thumb on how high you can turn up the sub volume?
The level in the AVR is currently set to -0.5dB. (Yamaha RX A3060) As far as listening habits, measuring with an SPL on a phone app, peaks sometimes get to 75 to 80dB when listening to music, sometimes movies get a little higher but not much. I do have a UMIK - 1 measurement mic, I downloaded REW, but couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so I kinda gave up on that. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!