RX-V659 Review

[Hydra]

Hi all, I was wondering how Gene preformed the following in his review;

“Manual Calibration
Auto calibration and YPAO can only get you so far. I opted to do things the old fashioned way for more precise tuning and system calibration.”

Well, I can only find a manual setting for the center speaker EQ. I guess the review left me hanging with how the old fashion way EQ was performed? Does this requires the addition of an external parametric equalizer for tweaking the other 6 channels?!?

ThX!

 

[moverton]

Hi all, I was wondering how Gene preformed the following in his review;

“Manual Calibration
Auto calibration and YPAO can only get you so far. I opted to do things the old fashioned way for more precise tuning and system calibration.”

Well, I can only find a manual setting for the center speaker EQ. I guess the review left me hanging with how the old fashion way EQ was performed? Does this requires the addition of an external parametric equalizer for tweaking the other 6 channels?!?

ThX!

He can answer for himself I'm sure but I assume he was talking about speaker size, distance, volume level, etc.

 

[evilkat]

Yeah I assumed he busted out the SPL meter and started messing around with the sys, hardcore style

 

[jcPanny]

Yamaha settings

Hydra,
I have a similar Yamaha receiver and it will do a manual grafic EQ of the center channel or an auto PEQ of all speakers. In my experience, the EQ feature on low end receivers is not that great and I leave the EQ off.

As sugested, you can manually adjust the speaker levels, distances, size, ect. instead of the auto setup MIC. I found the auto setup worked pretty well for speaker level and distance, but I manually adjusted all speakers to SMALL and the crossover setting with the sub.

 

[Hydra]

Hydra,
I have a similar Yamaha receiver and it will do a manual grafic EQ of the center channel or an auto PEQ of all speakers. In my experience, the EQ feature on low end receivers is not that great and I leave the EQ off.

As sugested, you can manually adjust the speaker levels, distances, size, ect. instead of the auto setup MIC. I found the auto setup worked pretty well for speaker level and distance, but I manually adjusted all speakers to SMALL and the crossover setting with the sub.

Thanks, at least we get some control, and yes I did play with that

I was harping the full manual parametric EQ. Actually the Auto EQ does well with my/this particular room as well I wanted to pull in a little HF on the rear channels as i find them a bit bright but OK. What I did was set tweeter controls to max, equalize, then turned way down, OK but kludgey.

I have read further and it seems that you have to boom up the Yamaha line to have full manual parametric EQ on all channels. This is something I missed on the review. I'm kicking myself for not downloading and studying the manual, before hand, but not a deal breaker.

Nitpicking aside, I like the Receiver.

Cheers