Do receivers have equalizers

[jmanlp]

Do receivers have like an equalizer where you can adjust the level of each frequency? Wouldnt it be a good thing to be able to adjust each channel to correct for all the little nuances? I have an AVR 635 and was wondering what exactly it is doing when I run the auto setup. I mean I know it sets the levels and the crossover (which i then tweak) but in the manual it says it is correcting for the room, is it doing other things that I cannot see to adjust. Just curious cause I'm up late and bored and pondering the questions of life. Thanks.

 

[Sheep]

Do receivers have like an equalizer where you can adjust the level of each frequency? Wouldnt it be a good thing to be able to adjust each channel to correct for all the little nuances? I have an AVR 635 and was wondering what exactly it is doing when I run the auto setup. I mean I know it sets the levels and the crossover (which i then tweak) but in the manual it says it is correcting for the room, is it doing other things that I cannot see to adjust. Just curious cause I'm up late and bored and pondering the questions of life. Thanks.

Some do, which ones, I cannot say, When, I do not know, Why, I cannot say, how, I do not know.. Drift my catch?

SheepStar

 

[jmanlp]

Have you been drinking also?

 

[corey]

Some do

Your's does, mine doesn't.

I don't know if your's will allow you to over-ride it's settings, but it does equalize each channel to flatten the response of your speakers in your room.

 

[jmanlp]

Your's does, mine doesn't.

I don't know if your's will allow you to over-ride it's settings, but it does equalize each channel to flatten the response of your speakers in your room.

Ok, this is what I was wondering, so how come I cant mess around with what it does, I didn't see any mention of how to mess with it in the manual, maybe I should read that section again.

 

[Leprkon]

Just a quick note here, though you haven't actually gone quite this far in your discussion:

if you do go buy an external equalizer, don't use it for any home theater feeds between the DVD player and the receiver. The decoder in your receiver is looking for certain aspects of your signal, and if you change these with an equalizer before the signal gets into the receiver, the decoder chip may fry itself trying to re-correct.

The external is fine if you are running a source to a "Pure Direct" or other circuit that doesn't engage the decoder chip.

 

[Josuah]

Most likely to save on costs, and remove a feature that most consumers would be confused by and could actually mess things up or cause damage to their speakers with.

 

[jmanlp]

Just a quick note here, though you haven't actually gone quite this far in your discussion:

if you do go buy an external equalizer, don't use it for any home theater feeds between the DVD player and the receiver. The decoder in your receiver is looking for certain aspects of your signal, and if you change these with an equalizer before the signal gets into the receiver, the decoder chip may fry itself trying to re-correct.

The external is fine if you are running a source to a "Pure Direct" or other circuit that doesn't engage the decoder chip.

The point of me asking this is not that I want to add one, matter of fact I can think of about a hundred things I need before that, I am just curious what it is doing when I run the EZ EQ setup... So far I have heard it does adjust some frequency response for the room, but you cannot edit those settings.

 

[Buckle-meister]

if you do go buy an external equalizer, don't use it for any home theater feeds between the DVD player and the receiver. The decoder in your receiver is looking for certain aspects of your signal...

What aspects that the equaliser would severely affect?

 

[Josuah]

I don't think you could introduce something bad if you placed it on the analog audio path, only if you tried to place it into the digital one (which wouldn't make any sense). Just make sure you're using the right line-level (choices are +4dB or -10dB, I think).

 

[mtrycrafts]

I don't think you could introduce something bad if you placed it on the analog audio path, only if you tried to place it into the digital one (which wouldn't make any sense). Just make sure you're using the right line-level (choices are +4dB or -10dB, I think).

On the older analog 2 channel out to a Dolby prologic unit, it would mess up phase angles and the decoder would misdirect the signals, either totally or partially.

 

[mtrycrafts]

that would decode

What aspects that the equaliser would severely affect?

I can only speculate on his response Adding analog EQ before a decoder, 2 ch only as I posted for Joshua, would or could mess up phase angles and the decoder will misdirect. Digital path? One would need an EQ that would decode, EQ and recode, and the receiver decode again. Not aware of such an EQ.