I have two subwoofer coming from a single output from my AVR. One is at the front of the room and midline and ~6ft away and the other is at the back of the room midline and only ~2ft away. Unfortunately they can not be a symmetric distance away.
I have a marantz 7003 so can run audyssey on them but that only takes the average of the distances does it not?
My question is should I try and set the phase of the two subs? If so which one?
Unfortunately I do not have any good mics to run REW or other measuring techniques but
My impressing is setting the phase is in essence changing the distance... So as a way to make the changes more specific / precise could I run audyssey with only one sub playing and record the distance and then fiddle with the other sub and re run audyssey with only that sub until it gets close to that other distance (and then do the official final run with both of them now both connect)? Does that seem reasonable?
I would try to set the phase and then
Run audyssey. Do you have a helper? You can try a few things. Run the internal test tone and sit in the LP with an spl meter(you said no equipment so not sure if you have one. Spl meter Apps are not good enough but better than ear). Adjust the phase of the rear sub until you get the most output on the meter. You might want to double check each subs spl individually again after that. Then run audyssey. Even xt32 with subeq eq’s the subs as one. So if you can get the phase and spl matched, just run audyssey and it will think you have one.
Or you can do like you said and set up the first sub and add the second manually. Problem is you’ll only have audyssey EQing one of them and you might cause more issues than you solve. Sorry for the patchwork post, I’m multitasking. Something I’m not very good at. Lol.
There’s a similar way to make sure the XO region is smooth too by using a test tone that is the same as the XO point. 80hz for example.