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Guide on balancing speakers?

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So I got this system yesterday and finished hooking it all up to my PC. My question, is there a guide on balancing the speaker volume, and Bass Management? I am new at all of this.

Plus did I get a good system? It listed at $499 and I paid $299 so I figured it was a good deal.

Yamaha YHT-450
 
You could either tune the system to your liking, or do it by the book with a Sound Pressure Level meter and some audio samples with pink noise. I prefer my own way with my home theatres.

Anyways, let's start off with some settings in the receiver's menu. Set "Dynamic Range (compression)" to Standard for now. Having it at max will likely cause that subwoofer to bottom out. Next for the "Speaker Size" settings, set Front/Main, Center, Surround, and Surround Back all to "Small". This way all low frequencies are sent to the subwoofer. Also for now, have the Crossover in the receiver AND on the subwoofer set to 80Hz.

Now for adjusting the level of each speaker. First have the level knob on the subwoofer at around 50%, then if there's a button on your remote that says "test", hit that and the receiver will output pink noise. Roughly listen (if you don't have a SPL meter) to each channel as it hisses and adjust the levels so that all the speakers are about the same loudness. Personally, most of the time I like to have the surround channels the same volume as my center and the front/main channels both be a few decibels louder than the center. This make the sound field appear kinda wider, instead of hearing the center do all the work.

Some people might say what I've explained is wrong, but tuning a home theatre is mostly trial and error, and the more you play around with the options, the more you'll discover about your system. So see how these settings work out for you.

PS: that's a decent system for $299, coming from yamaha, it'll probably sound better than other HT in a box at equal value and have tiny amp units and speakers.
 
Ok thanks for the reply... very helpful. Even after reading the manual I didn't quite understand that Crossover and other things you mentioned so I didn't mess with them.
 
What are you stuck on? Oh yea I forgot to mention, when the main speakers are set at "Small" have the "Bass Out" set to Subwoofer. If you feel the system needs more bass you could set the Main to Large and have the Bass Out set to "Both". But this wouldnt add much since your Front speakers only go down to 50Hz.
 
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