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so i have been watching movies since i had done the auto set up, tonight i was just checking out some of the settings and i went into manual setup and checked the where the level was for each speaker, as i set the speaker level to the left main there was a nice sound coming from it, then center, then right main, left surround, right surround and everything sounded well matched. when i put it to the subwoofer boston pv1000, there was really no sound coming out of it, there was a sound but it was so low i could barely hear it, is this how it should be??, the only way i get a sound is if i turn the level up to the max on the sub level setting in the receiver (db level). the auto setup on the yamaha receiver put the sub level just about over a quarter of the way up on the db level like -4.5. on the yamaha the db level for the sub goes from -10 to 10db. should i try cranking up the db to 8db?
should i bring this sub in to be checked out to the local home theater shop that deals with boston acoustic around here?
CHECK OUT THIS REVIEW BELOW THAT I DUG UP ON AUDIREVEIW THAT SOMEONE SUBMITTED
"When I first hooked up this beast I thought that I had done something wrong. There was hardly any base, and cranking it up to 11-12 still gave me no staisfaction. Then I continued reading the other sublines in the instruciton manuls to find out if I had set it right. It suggested I use the Y-cable connector, when using line level in. Did that still nothing. I was begginning to wonder If my ears had played tricks on me as i spent almost two hours at the store demoing every single sub there. None of the others came close. I was begginning to shut everything down and bring the sub back or at least have it checked. then came an important line of information in the manual. "Some amplifier has unusually quite output level" Hang on a minute.... Did my amp fall into this category? STarted digging out my Denons AVR1800''s manuals and found( you all should know abou the crappy dennon manuals) the volume setting for the SW vol, cranked it up to 8dbs, did a Pink noise test and wallah! Its alive! recalibrated the sound levels of all the speakers and I was in bussiness! DBOw, check your amp settings! Do not take this Sub back as you will not fine another in its class. I tried almost 6 subwoofers before i was convinced that this sub is excellent! and its footprint?! You will not find another that goes down to 20hz at that size! Next came the music demo. Kitara brings to mind? played it Those kitara base drums really kills subs. The Drums never made the sub rumble like thunder at all, I am not saying that there is no base, just that it give the low thump without the extra vibrations on the subs that i have owned, which made you wonder if a thunderstorm was building up outside. Not what a drum would sound like. Next went the Saving private ryan, I remember reading somewhere in alt.hometheatre.misc, that when the panzers or tigers start rolling in towards the bridge, you could feel the tanks moving. Well I did not feel that tanks moving at all, I thought they were actually in my living room!!! Again it was not thunder like sound type of rumbling, its like what it really is real life! I have been in the army and i have felt the vibrations when a tank moves by."
