Having trouble keeping SW on whilst playing LP's

[Squishman]

I ran AccuEQ again. I set the sub at about 1/3. I got these values: fr -12db; c -5.5 and sub -8.5. Not sure what to make of this. Shall I forgo all that and manually put all three at 0? Then adjust to my liking including surrounds and heights? Playing an LP afterwards and the sub certainly was on but not loud enough at all.

 

[Trell]

@Squishman There are power strips that can turn on/off outlets and controlled by power draw of one of them (i.e. turning on your receiver draws enough power to turn on/off other devices on the strip).

Perhaps that can help you solve your problem by setting your subwoofer on always on and connected to such a strip?

 

[Squishman]

@Squishman There are power strips that can turn on/off outlets and controlled by power draw of one of them (i.e. turning on your receiver draws enough power to turn on/off other devices on the strip).

Perhaps that can help you solve your problem by setting your subwoofer on always on and connected to such a strip?

Seems I have solved the sub on issue with LP's by adding the y connector. Now I think I am dealing with levels mostly. It sounds good. Just wonder if these settings are out of the norm.

 

[Trell]

Seems I have solved the sub on issue with LP's by adding the y connector. Now I think I am dealing with levels mostly. It sounds good. Just wonder if these settings are out of the norm.

An inexpensive measurement microphone like the UMIK-1 along with the free Room EQ Wizard (REW) would be helpful for you here.

 

[ryanosaur]

I ran AccuEQ again. I set the sub at about 1/3. I got these values: fr -12db; c -5.5 and sub -8.5. Not sure what to make of this.

Good.

It is interesting that your Center changed from -7.5 to -5.5.

That your L/R did not change and is still at -12dB only makes me lean harder toward my thought that these are "breaking" the room correction a little.
Your AVR is trying to compensate for their high sensitivity by attenuating the signal going to the Speakers. I'm guessing still that -12dB is the limit with which your AVR can make these adjustments.
My suspicion is your Mains are still louder than they should be to properly blend with the other Speakers.

Regardless:

Shall I forgo all that and manually put all three at 0? Then adjust to my liking including surrounds and heights?

No. Not unless you get a way to manually check the SPL setting for all your Speakers. If you wanted to go this route, you should bypass a free phone app and get a real SPL meter. But this gets tricky and might not be necessary.

Playing an LP afterwards and the sub certainly was on but not loud enough at all.

OK. But because the AVR set your Sub to -8.5, you now have some room to adjust that Trim level upwards.

 

[lovinthehd]

The freq control off defeats that obviously when you are in LFE mode I think. Now that I am using the y connector, I think that should be on. So I was asking if 60 hz seems the correct setting.

Generally if you are using the bass management in the avr, you do not want to use the low pass filter on the sub itself (as you are already employing a low pass filter in the crossover/bass management). If there's an on/off switch for the filter I'd just turn it off, some subs don't have an on/off and you would set it to max value. Glad the extra bit of gain using the L/R inputs on the sub helped out, tho.

 

[ryanosaur]

Generally if you are using the bass management in the avr, you do not want to use the low pass filter on the sub itself (as you are already employing a low pass filter in the crossover/bass management). If there's an on/off switch for the filter I'd just turn it off, some subs don't have an on/off and you would set it to max value. Glad the extra bit of gain using the L/R inputs on the sub helped out, tho.

Is that the LPF on the Hsu?

Absolutely turn that off, @Squishman !

 

[lovinthehd]

Is that the LPF on the Hsu?

Absolutely turn that off, @Squishman !

Seems he's talking about the LPF on the sub (he said plate).

 

[ryanosaur]

I went to the site...

Squishy, turn that OFF by the switch, next to POWER, and just to be safe you should turn the Crossover Frequency knob all the way to its highest setting.

This will mess up the overall sub performance if you keep it on and may be why you think it isnot loud enough as you stated earlier. That switch will be causing anything above 60Hz to roll off, making it much more "quiet" than it is meant to be.