Help with set-up

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[MDS]

Have you used the receiver's test tones to calibrate each channel to an equal level? That's the first thing you need to do.

 

[AVRat]

To balance the speakers accurately, you should pick up a Radio Shack SPL meter.

 

[markw]

What mode are you using when listening to music?

The front speakers sound great through the carver but I can barely hear the rear speakers and the center speaker when I have them all on when listening to music.

I can't hear my center and surrounds either, but I listen to them in the two channel stereo mode. ...and I like it that way. IMNSHO, two channel recordings sound best played back in two channels but YMMV.

Try one of the DPS modes, DPL, or even 5 channel stereo if it's available.

 

[MDS]

Hi,

The receiver came with a mike of some kind that the installer used to set tone. He also set something to large vs small on the on screen set-up for speakers.

The auto-setup feature will almost always set your front speakers to Large and 99% of the time that is wrong. You will have to familiarize yourself with the setup functions of the receiver. If you have a subwoofer, you want all speakers set to Small, Sub=Yes/On, and Xover=80 Hz.