I hate Audyssey or however the hell you spell it

[gdsk39a]

Not sure why folks use it. I just use my good old Velodyne SMS-1 to calibrate all the below subs with great results. All subs are located in an enclosed 17 Width x 32 L X 8.5 H room. All I can say is wow :bump 1: to the sonic pleasures.

:geezer:

[madpoet]

Once I have them dialed in manually I'm using my SVS EQ1, which I think eats the SMS-1 for lunch ;)

[CrisK]

Hi guys,

Hoping this is a good place to ask my setup question. I have Audyssey on my Onkyo 705 and also use a BFD for sub calibration. Do you know the sequence of steps to properly calibrate the speakers/sub with Audyssey and the sub with the BFD?

I currently run Audyssey through the complete 8 location sweep on both the sub and speakers with the BFD in bypass mode. After that is complete, saved, and enabled, I use REW to manually tweak my sub. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[madpoet]

I know for the SVS that is the recommended method.

[gooddoc]

Hi guys,

Hoping this is a good place to ask my setup question. I have Audyssey on my Onkyo 705 and also use a BFD for sub calibration. Do you know the sequence of steps to properly calibrate the speakers/sub with Audyssey and the sub with the BFD?

I currently run Audyssey through the complete 8 location sweep on both the sub and speakers with the BFD in bypass mode. After that is complete, saved, and enabled, I use REW to manually tweak my sub. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

I would run the BFD first with REW and then with the BFD enabled run Audyssey on top of that. Audyssey has a greater resolution than the parametric equalizer so you would want Audyssey picking up the rear and fine tuning what you do in REW.

I know for the SVS that is the recommended method.

The reason the SVS is run after Audyssey is that it has higher resolution filters than MultEQ for the bass frequencies. Same concept as above, run the EQ with the highest resolution filters last.

Just my 2 cents.

[madpoet]

Good point thanks!

[gooddoc]

Sure! I had a "few":rolleyes: beers in me when we were talking last night and then I see the thread has been removed...I hope I didn't say anything there that was stupid causing a threadectomy, if so I apologize. I hope you get your issue resolved.

[cdy2179]

Yea I too use a BFD for sub EQ....I ran it without YPOA (Yamaha's version of audessey) After I got the EQ setup the way I like I then ran the AVR's EQ.... some of the Audessey, MMAC and YPOA on-board EQs don't have that many filters so I surely don't want them trying to EQ my sub when from what I've seen using REW I get way better results EQing it myself.

[engtaz]

Audyssey, is a starting point. It will at least put you -3db on your subs. Manually adjust the speaker levels to you liking. It does a good job of room correction. You just evenly adjust your pairs of speakers. IE: (if ft L is 5.5db and ft R is 4.0db and you want to raise their level 2 db then ft L is now 7.5db and ft R is now 6.0db. That's the easiest way to go about adjustment.)
Have fun with it.

[BRAC]

Not sure why folks use it. I just use my good old Velodyne SMS-1 to calibrate all the below subs with great results. All subs are located in an enclosed 17 Width x 32 L X 8.5 H room. All I can say is wow :bump 1: to the sonic pleasures.

:geezer:

There are better sub only eq's no doubt, but Audyssey is a very good eq solution for the whole system. I get great results using Audyssey in my setup, in fact much better than without.

To each his own...

[craigsub]

Sure! I had a "few":rolleyes: beers in me when we were talking last night and then I see the thread has been removed...I hope I didn't say anything there that was stupid causing a threadectomy, if so I apologize. I hope you get your issue resolved.

The thread is not removed. It is in a soft delete, as it had turned into a discussion about Audyssey.

Once we get Madpoet squared away, it will be reopened.

[SomeCiscoGuy]

There are better sub only eq's no doubt, but Audyssey is a very good eq solution for the whole system. I get great results using Audyssey in my setup, in fact much better than without.

To each his own...

Ditto

[BRAC]

The thread is not removed. It is in a soft delete, as it had turned into a discussion about Audyssey.

Once we get Madpoet squared away, it will be reopened.

We promise to keep the Audyssey discussions out if you reopen NOW!:poke: :neener 1: :whoopie:


I'm bored...:shiftyeyes:

[gooddoc]

The thread is not removed. It is in a soft delete, as it had turned into a discussion about Audyssey.

Once we get Madpoet squared away, it will be reopened.

Not a problem Craig. When everything is worked out we can get back to the business of the reviews and I think you should simply start a new, dedicated thread, for that purpose. That thread was premature and it serves no real purpose to revive it at this point.

[BRAC]

:whs::plusone:

Seriously speaking, at this point I'm more interested in taking delivery. I would rather do my own testing and give my own impressions. Any updates? When can I expect a call?

I really am lost without my HT if you hadn't noticed...