This is my first time on a forum unrelated to IT issues. I am a huge movie nut, I have always been trying to achieve a great home theatre setup. However I have always gone for the simple HTIB option, my first being the Sony SAVA-500 (which I still have), then to an Onkyo HT-S6100. Then I finally built my own with the DefTech Pro 800 5.1 set with a Sony STR-DN840.
None of the systems except for the SAVA, sounded like they were at the full potential. Probably my doing. I would scour google for settings and configs but nothing ever worked. Finally I began having issues three weeks ago with the Sony going into protector constantly when playing movies. I checked all the wires (so I thought) and came to the conclusion that I needed a new receiver.
So I went to Best Buy and was surprised to see that Def Tech had a 20% off sale on their 9000 series equipment, something I had been eyeing since they came out. So I pulled the trigger (with wife approval), and picked up the CS9060 and two BP9060. I asked the magnolia rep to recommend the receiver that is best paired with the equipment, he sold me the Denon AVR-X2400h.
I had to setup the receiver first as the speakers had to be shipped to me, When hooked everything up I found I got the same issue with the receiver powering down. That's when I discovered the front right speaker wire from the speaker side was too exposed ad was causing a short. I tested everything later and realized the after doing the Audyssey setup the Pro 800 sounded spectacular.
The speakers finally arrived but I was already contemplating to return everything minus the receiver, until I didn't and setup up everything. When I finished the setup and put on a movie I found myself extremely disappointed the sound was Meh, The pro 800's sounded better. It has to be a configuration issue but I cant figure it out so I am hoping someone here can give me some advise, Below is how its currently setup.
BP9060 - Setup to front left and right, LFE is connected on both using a mediabridge RCA y-splitter and the same brand RCA cables to both on Subwoofer 1.
CS9060 - setup to center channel, LFE connected on the center powered sub and pro800 sub using mediabridge RCA y-splitter and the same brand RCA cables on Subwoofer 2
Pro800 Sub - as mention above
Pro800 Mon - Both setup as the surrounds.
I used 12awg speaker wire from Monoprice and premium banana plugs to terminate on the receiver side.
I ran the audyssey setup but i made the minor tweaks after.
I set the fronts to small and the center to small
Crossover set to Front=100 hz, Center=100 hz, Surround=100 hz
Bass mode LFE, LPF for LFE is 110 hz
Dialog Level Adjust is turned on and set to 0dB
Subwoofer Level Adjust is on and set to 0dB
Amp Assign Mode is set to Zone 2
Any advice is greatly appreciated.