ASX-24TXH volume

[John_W]

Hello all, have a new receiver that has more power than my 20 year old receiver but it doesn't get as loud as the old one. . The volume level showing on the new receiver is jiberish to me. The lowest level is - 80db and the highest it will go is +12db. To comfortably here the audio I have to turn it up to +1db which seems like a very high volume level based on the low and high parameters. I can't even hear any volume until it gets to - 50db which doesn't seem right to me. My setup is an hdmi out from a uverse box that goes into hdmi on the receiver. Then hdmi out of the receiver into the TV. I also am running digital optical out from uverse box into hdmi 1 on the receiver. Anybody have ideas? Thank you.

 

[lovinthehd]

There is the absolute vs relative scale of volume, but you must calibrate the system first, did you do that? Usually running the setup/room correction software will calibrate it. What brand is your receiver? I got little googling the model number.

Try this article http://denon.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/136/~/relative-and-absolute-volume-ranges

 

[John_W]

Sorry, it's VSX-21TXH Pioneer. I have not calibrated the system. To be honest I'm wondering if my hodge podge speaker setup will calibrate. I have two bose double cubes as my rears and a bose subwoofer running on speaker wires. Klipsch center channel on speaker wire. I also have two very ancient (+20 years old) sony tower speakers as my fronts that are running off rca wire. The sonys are amplified. Would you recommend I get all new speakers or will this setup work? I've read on here that my precious and expensive bose are really junk. Thank you in advance.

 

[lovinthehd]

Bose may work okay as surrounds. MCACC in your Pioneer can handle the different types of speakers, both speakers via its own amp and your active speakers via pre-outs, but its that bass module (its not a subwoofer) wiring that may not work well as the avr expects the sub only on a pre-out. Might want to do all the speakers separately with MCACC. How exactly do you have the Bose bass module wired? Bose aren't the best but surrounds don't need to be particularly....but I'd upgrade to a real sub first.

 

[everettT]

Are small speakers a must? If so the bose mid bass module and the speakrs paired with a klipsch center will probably sound way out of wack. Depending on which bose module you have it could be difficult to setup up with any center speaker . If you want real improvements and not relative volume issues, get new speakers and a sub. If you look at the published specs of some of the lifestyle and acoustamass units there is a range of frequency response that is missing between the mid bass module and the sats.

 

[John_W]

I wired the sub to the fronts given the cubes run from the sub. Didn't want to run it to the sub or rear outputs because I need them to be loud because the wifey is half deaf. Need loudness all around. I'll have to educate myself on the mcacc as it is all new to me.

 

[everettT]

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/90-receivers-amps-processors/1112470-official-pioneer-mcacc-thread.html#/enter


And it's a mid bass module

 

[John_W]

Thank you Everett. I'll have to wrap my head in duct tape before diving in just so my head doesn't explode trying to understand mcacc and how to out it to use.

 

[lovinthehd]

MCACC isn't that hard to use, just follow the directions in the manual or in the other thread. I had a similar Pioneer and think you could even start from the OSD menu without too much difficulty, just get the microphone out and ready to use! It'll treat your mains and the bass module as a unit then, so set the mains to large and tell it no subwoofer (small means to use a subwoofer, but you don't have one connected).