HT question

PolkMan2005
PolkMan2005 Posts: 4
edited February 28 in Clubhouse Archives
I just purchased a polk center channel and hooked it up, and now my fronts (rt600i's) are playing very soft. I went to stereo mode on my Onkyo receiver and it still played them very soft, like I had to turn the volume way up. Anyone know what's up and what I can do to get the speakers playing the way I want them to play
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited April 2002
    Sounds to me like you have poor connections to me......

    Troy
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  • nascarmann
    nascarmann Posts: 1,464
    edited April 2002
    I've never had an Onkyo, but did you change the LFE settings? Maybe by mistake when you turned the center channel on!
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited April 2002
    you might have a bad conecton l&r chanels or maybe you set your mains to small
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  • OrangeToupee
    OrangeToupee Posts: 488
    edited April 2002
    If it's the CS400i, than it's not surprising if your mains are sounding a little lost in the shuffle. If it's the 245i or 175i, then I think something is wrong. I wouldn't imagine that it's your main's connection, I mean, you didn't change them while setting up your center, right? You're going to have to move your mains a little closer to you, or use the distance from listener settings on your receiver to tell it the mains are farther away, or that your center is closer. Just a couple of suggestions. The 245i would be your best fit, I believe, the 400i even roughs up my 800i's a little bit. It's a real self-centered ****.
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  • PolkMan2005
    PolkMan2005 Posts: 4
    edited April 2002
    OK, thanks for the replies guys, but I know what it is now. On my receiver you can change the level of output for each channel, and my main speakers were at -12, and all other speakers were at +12. I knew that, and I had my front speakers up at +12, but now every time I turn on the receiver it puts it at that setting. I am going to read the manual to figure out it I can set it so all speakers are at +12 when I turn the receiver on. I have the CS245i. I also have another question about different surround formats. My receiver is the Onkyo 484-txds, and it has about 5 or 6 DSP modes. It has Dolby Digital and DTS decoders built in, but I am not sure how to use them. When I go through the different DSP modes, dolby pro-logic comes up, but not dolby digital or dts. Do I select them modes in the DVD or what? For now, I play my dvd's through a PS2, but I will be getting something nicer shortly.
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  • OrangeToupee
    OrangeToupee Posts: 488
    edited April 2002
    I imagine that you have an "auto" setting where your receiver automatically senses the type of format being fed to it. I find that those DSP modes are unlistenable.
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  • wangotango68
    wangotango68 Posts: 1,056
    edited April 2002
    besides the usual dolby digital and dts i fhave found pro logic 2
    is great for tv and sports.


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