help with settings on new home theater.

[slreno]

i have posted this at avs and got some responces but trying to get all information and decide what way is best. i have ran the audyssey but just trying to do some fine tuning. so here is the pase from the other forum and hope to get some expertise on this.

heres the deal, i am not sure i have actually been listening to a home theater with bad reproduction and i am just used to what it sounded like or i am now hearing what it is supposed to sound like and i think it sounds wrong or it actually is wrong! so let me try to explain this as best i can. i will type in all my current settings in a few.
but heres the deal. i have a new onkyo tx-nr616, with 2 front channel floor speakers (klipsh f10 floof speakers.) i also have a (5 klipsch quintets) 2 are surrounds and 2 are back surrounds and 1 is center channel. i also have a svs pb1000 sub woofer.
my issue isnt the sound, it is amazing! it is the dialogue (voices from center channel) has no depth! they seem like there coming out of a can. with all of the awesome sound from the rest of the speakers it almost sounds like the voices dont belong!
could it be a setting in my speaker setup causing the big fronts or even the sub not adding to the smaller center channel to give it depth?
here are my settings, let me know if the settings are causing it or if this is actually how its supposed to sound and i am just used to the old bose setup not sounding rite? or if i may need to buy a larger center channel to get depth? but that doesnt seem like i should have to do that, it seems the fronts and/or the sub should add some depth to the voices dialogue.?

anyway heres the settings,
sub woofer is set to receiver controls the lfe so woofer has no manual settings going on.
fronts are set at 40 hz
center is at 80 hz
the surrounds are set at 120 hz
surround backs are set at 120 hz
lpf of lfe is 100 hz.

please help , i think it kind of sounds bad! but who knows may it sounds rite and i am just used to bose actually just screwing the true sound up!
thanks

 

[twoeyedbob]

Imo your sub should be set at 80hz...kind of industry standard....
Whether that'll help is another matter
I presume the centre speaker has 2 drivers to the surrounds 1
?
Sorry i'm in uk so have no knowledge of klipsch spkrs

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[PENG]

my issue isnt the sound, it is amazing! it is the dialogue (voices from center channel) has no depth! they seem like there coming out of a can. with all of the awesome sound from the rest of the speakers it almost sounds like the voices dont belong!
could it be a setting in my speaker setup causing the big fronts or even the sub not adding to the smaller center channel to give it depth?

First of all, try turning Audyssey off to see how it sounds. If it sounds fine or at least much better, then you need to re-run Audyssey but follow their (Audyssey website, not Onkyo) instructions to the letter. If you did not follow instructions, then the results could conceivable be worse than without using Audyssey.

If it still sounds bad, then re- run Audyssey anyway following the instructions exactly, just in case and then make some some changes to the crossover settings after, such as follow:

- All speakers set to small
- L/R crossovers to 80 Hz
- Center to 150 Hz (it's freq response claim is 125Hz-23kHz, no +/- dB given)

- LPF set to 150 Hz
- Sub set to LFE

Before running Audyssey, disable all settings on the sub and set volume to around 11 to 12 noon position. It is also possible that you might have the center speaker connected out of phase with the others but normally Audyssey would pick that up and give you the warning.