genesis471 said:
I was going to ask some of the folks here whom have the same setup ie. Maxer;
Glad to offer my experience. The first thing I did after carefully unpacking and connecting was use the auto setup on my RX-V2500. This gave me the distance, level, crossover (80hz), equalization, etc settings. After a little listening, I was a little impressed, but not blown away. I went into the manual setup to see what was set. All the speakers were set to large (so only the .1 track of a Dolby/DTS source was going to the sub) and the equalization really damped the high end (I tend to like bright, crisp highs which is why I love the Axioms).
So I flattened the EQ on all the channels and set all the speakers to small and holy crap what a difference. The Axioms came alive and on music the sub rounded out the bottom perfectly.
To summarize, I recommend the following:
1. Set all speakers to small (Thanks to the Audioholics guides for this tip)
2. If you have a sub, set bass to sub, else, set it to fronts
3. Flatten the Equalizer for your first listen to hear the speakers as they were designed. Tweak from there.
4. Play with the level settings if you use an auto setup. I found that the receiver did well, but didn't get it quite right.
5. Enjoy!