Does Audyssey Kill The Bass?

[@michaelwyckoff7593]

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[@homeboi808]

Audyssey aims for flat in-room bass. Which is only meant for actual commercial-sized theaters. Residential rooms want a bass boost. So you need the $20 app. Maybe Rob Hahn’s theater is ok to have flat bass. But 99% of people don’t have a home theater as large as his.

[@Mjaybird]

App is good

[@zelko0768]

Thanks guys, so that's a 5-10db boost with DEQ on?

[@elmerbais]

From what im observing, Denon Nd Marantz will eat your time Calibration and figuring out whats best sound to your liking. And its not simple if your not into Marantz and Denon. I just bought a Marantz cinema 50 and sounded anemic. It needs blood transfusion. Frustrating for a guy like me that has limited time calibrating over and over the system.

[@Hung_Tran_lxxxii]

At least for my setup, Audyssey app got the trim level correct. It was the phase that was out of phase causing a 10db cancellation in the crossover region. Once the phase was matched, my picture frame was rattling against the wall.

[@ts6640]

My question is (and always has been) the following: “When people suggest increasing the bass on Audyssey by a certain number of decibels are they suggesting increasing the decibel level in the “Option/Channel Level Adjust” level menu of any particular Denon/Marantz AVR or rather in the ‘Setup/Speaker level” menu”? I ask this because my understanding is if you adjust the DB level in the “Setup” menu you are are actually modifying the “target curve” (which (generally speaking) for the average user is fraught with peril) whereas adjusting via the ‘option/channel level’ menu does not adjust the target curve

[@zelko0768]

curious about this as well

[@ts6640]

@@zelko0768 Hopefully one of the creators of the show will weigh-in

[@ts6640]

@@zelko0768 looks like we are out of luck :(

[@Mjaybird]

Short answer yes

[@Prerich45]

Dirac sucked the life out of my bass....I had to use the 6db or 10db Harman Curve to get the bass right. Audyssey MultEQ-X was good out the gate. I don't know if I'm going to upgrade from multi-channel to the DLBC....that's an extra $400 on top of the $500 I've paid. Dirac is a great system, I'm just finding myself enjoying MultEQ-X more. I do use both at different times though.

[@abyssandvolcano]

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