Denon 3805 autoEQ - "large" vs. "small"

[pbarach]

I am using KEF Q7's as my front main speakers, and a KEF Q9c as my center, and I have a subwoofer as well. When I run the AutoEQ on my Denon 3805, it sets all 3 of these front speakers to LARGE (it quite properly sets the Q1 surrounds to SMALL). This is very odd, since the Q9c certainly doesn't have a lot of bass extension. In any case, I don't want the bass to be playing in those speakers along with the subwoofers, so after running AutoEQ, I set all of the speakers to SMALL and the crossover point at 80 Hz. This setup makes the most sense, as other posts in this forum have suggested. Now everything below 80 Hz on all channels goes to the subwoofer.

BUT... doesn't this procedure essentially eliminate any benefits of the low frequency equalization settings of the AutoEQ??

I wonder if there is some way to get the AutoEQ to do its measurements while keeping all the speakers set to SMALL... Any thoughts on this?

 

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BUT... doesn't this procedure essentially eliminate any benefits of the low frequency equalization settings of the AutoEQ??

I wonder if there is some way to get the AutoEQ to do its measurements while keeping all the speakers set to SMALL... Any thoughts on this?

It should have kept everything that it did before you changed it. I have towers, Phase Tech V-12's and when I did the auto EQ on my 3805 it changed everything to include making them "large" speakers on the selection. All I did was go in and change the settings to small, and I did not like were it set my cross over freq so I changed that as well. Everything else should stay the same.

Lots of people use the auto set up to get there system close then all they have to do is a small ammount of fine adjustments to get it how they like it.

I did the same thing on my Yammy RX-V657. Auto EQ then fine tune.