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1. When doing setup, do you set the output sound volume (pink noise) the same for all 5 speakers? Some said the rear surround volume should be slightly lower. Other said the center speaker should be set slightly louder. So what's the truth?
2. What's the height of the rear surround speaker? Some mentioned 6-ft above ground but I am using floorstander so it's not exactly practical. Or is it better to using mini-mointer instead?Hope someone will clear thing up a bit for me. Thanks.
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Thanks for all the reply. But here's some more need clearing up and appreciate more advise again.
1. Because I also listen to music and having a pretty long room of about 20-ft, I have the front 2 main speaker pull out by about 5-ft from the TV/Center speaker to obtain better soundstage depth. So now my center speaker is further away from the listening listening. Should I do a time delay on the 2 main speaker instead?
2. Part of my intention is to listen to SACD multi-channel, hence my thought of having a full range floor-stander speaker of about 3.5-ft tall instead of mini-monitor. Being floor stander, lifting it higher on bracket isn't exactly an options. So are you suggesting that I get rid of the floor-stander?
Certainly no expert, but have started to take my HT more seriously these days after mostly just fooling around with it for a few years.Start off with the speakers all sounding the same volume level from the main listening position, and adjust to taste later. Making the center louder is common it seems, and I do that. It doesn't need to be louder for most movies, but for some it does, so I just set it a bit louder and left it.
As for height, I just raised my rear surrounds to 5'6" off the ground last weekend. I much prefer this, they're meant to be at least 2' above your ear height when sitting (> 66" for me). I found adequate speaker brackets for a reasonable price, and they are far cheaper than most speaker stands too. You might find they will support your floorstanders - they do mine. There's no real bass coming from the rear surrounds anyway.
Regarding your questions:1) Rather than adjust volume to different SPL levels, first make sure the speaker delay (ms or feet) is set correctly before you calibrate all the speakers to the same SPL at your listening position.
This typically means;
- Take a piece of string and measure from your left main's tweeter to your listening position, use that as a baseline.
- Your right main should be equal to the left.
- Your center speaker will likely be closer (that means you need to engage a delay, about 1ms for each foot to close)
- Your surrounds may also be closer than your mains, use the same 1ms=1 foot to set delay for them.2) About surround speaker height. Many recommend about 2-3 feet above ear level, but this can vary. Just make sure to apply delay as above before calibrating.
bstan
Since no one replied to MY questions, I thought I'd pitch in and help you with yours.1) Ideally, the pink noise should all be the same. But depending on the source material, you're exactly right -- upping the center channel a tad will make dialogue a little clearer and more easily understood, while backing off on the rear channels a bit will keep them from potentially overwhelming your mains.
2) Using a mini-monitor on a stand at least 48" off the floor is preferable to floorstanding speakers. Since most AV receivers either don't send signals below, say, 80 Hz to the rears anyway (depending on how you have the crossovers set) you don't need a speaker with a great deal of bass -- that's assuming you're using a subwoofer or two. Something like DefTech's ProCinema 100 will do fine.
Hope this helps.
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