I think I am beginning to understand something about subwoofer level control. I would like a confirmation. I have my powered towers set up with my sub out going to the line in on them with no sub anymore. I know that when my reciever is in direct stereo, it send my fronts a full range signal regardless of whether they are set to large or small(I currently have them set to small). I have my sub level calibrated with the recievers test tones for movies. When I listen to music in 2-channel stereo(very rarely) my sub channel is put to use in music, but if it is calibrated for movies I can hardly even hear it. When I increase the level to +10dB, it sounds almost exactly as it does when the fronts are getting a full range signal without the reciever's bass management(as far as 'loudness' is concerned, the sound is slightly different, which I would expect, but the 'loudness' is nearly identical). I know that Dolby's LFE channel is recorded +10dB greater than the rest of the channels to reach a maximum of 115dB in a movie. My question is, when the subwoofer channel is calibrated for movies it seams I have to add 10dB when listening to music, but I would like confirmation. I have my reciever set up that the LFE level is it at -10dB so I don't have to change anything when going from music to movies but it seams like it could cause confusion for someone, including myself, when calibrating the level of a system that doesn't have a separate LFE level control. If you rely on a separate subwoofer for all of your bass, and don't have a LFE level control you would have to mess with the sub level every time you want to switch from movies to music, which seems like a hassle to me. Does anybody know why reciever's are designed in this way instead of just automatically adjusting Dolby Digital LFE to -10dB?
I just realized that this post is in the wrong section so feel free to delete it, because I have posted there also.
