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My nephew in Texas has the same speaker package that I do, albeit a few years newer. His are Definitive Technology BP 7006, with a clr 2300 center channel. Mine are BP 2006 TLs. In the process of going over his system I noticed that the towers were placed with the subs facing each other rather than outward which is the opposite of the way mine were set up. I read the manual and it said that this was the preferred placement for maximum bass. So, I left them as is. When I got home, I reread my manual and it didn't have a preference in placement in or out. It said either position would work, whatever sounds best to you in your room is what you should use. So, for the hell of it I reversed my towers so that the subs were now facing each other. I tried the system out using "The Fellowship of The Ring" extended version as a reference and found out that yes indeed it did make a significant difference.
Then, just for the heck of it, I checked the speaker setting in my receiver and found that the sub had been set to THX rather than mixed. Since the speaker system is not THX, I changed the setting to mixed and then tried the system again and boy did that make an even bigger difference. Bass and depth coming from everywhere like I've never heard. Obviously one of the issues was my fault for not trying the mixed setting. For some reason the installer suggested the THX setting, obviously that person was wrong. The speaker placement on the other hand I have to lay at the feet of the manufacturer.
To let you know what the actual effect was prior to the changes I was running the audio of the previously mentioned disc at -18db. After the changes I was able to decrease that to -23db and I like it loud, so the average person would probably be happy sitting at an even lower setting.
On a separate note, does anyone own the third "Pirates" film in Blu-ray? Normally even since the adjustments I made, I was still running audio between
-23db and -21 depending on the disc. I popped in "Pirates at World End" last night and at -30db it was shaking the walls? FYI, I am running audio over digital coax and playing back in standard 5.1. Has anyone else noticed that the audio on this disc is really cranked? Not a complaint, it sounds amazing, just curious.
Anthony in Orlando.
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My nephew in Texas has the same speaker package that I do, albeit a few years newer. His are Definitive Technology BP 7006, with a clr 2300 center channel. Mine are BP 2006 TLs. In the process of going over his system I noticed that the towers were placed with the subs facing each other rather than outward which is the opposite of the way mine were set up. I read the manual and it said that this was the preferred placement for maximum bass. So, I left them as is. When I got home, I reread my manual and it didn't have a preference in placement in or out. It said either position would work, whatever sounds best to you in your room is what you should use. So, for the hell of it I reversed my towers so that the subs were now facing each other. I tried the system out using "The Fellowship of The Ring" extended version as a reference and found out that yes indeed it did make a significant difference.
Then, just for the heck of it, I checked the speaker setting in my receiver and found that the sub had been set to THX rather than mixed. Since the speaker system is not THX, I changed the setting to mixed and then tried the system again and boy did that make an even bigger difference. Bass and depth coming from everywhere like I've never heard. Obviously one of the issues was my fault for not trying the mixed setting. For some reason the installer suggested the THX setting, obviously that person was wrong. The speaker placement on the other hand I have to lay at the feet of the manufacturer.
To let you know what the actual effect was prior to the changes I was running the audio of the previously mentioned disc at -18db. After the changes I was able to decrease that to -23db and I like it loud, so the average person would probably be happy sitting at an even lower setting.
On a separate note, does anyone own the third "Pirates" film in Blu-ray? Normally even since the adjustments I made, I was still running audio between
-23db and -21 depending on the disc. I popped in "Pirates at World End" last night and at -30db it was shaking the walls? FYI, I am running audio over digital coax and playing back in standard 5.1. Has anyone else noticed that the audio on this disc is really cranked? Not a complaint, it sounds amazing, just curious.
Anthony in Orlando.
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