Pioneer Elite MCACC and power amps

disneyjoe7

If you are using MCACC for your normal HT settings, but used Pure Direct for 2 channel modes are you still using MCACC setting levels? The question comes about with the use of extra power amps used for the front L / R speakers. Is the MCACC placing the front L / R levels to a heavy turned down setting to adjust for the amps in balancing center / rear surround speakers. I could see it doing that, but I would think Pure Direct would have bypassed this in it's mode no?

By using the receiver in this mode of 2 channel / HT is it best to manually set MCACC for the front to place it at 0db and force the center and rear surrounds to a higher db setting to balance out the sound?

mantis

This is a good question. I don't know the answer but I can find out for yeah.

Pure direct shuts down video and unused circuits from what I understand so you have a pure audio signal. Mcacc is a calibration. I don' see why it would turn off it's settings. Your speakers get calibrated to the room which is something you would want on even in pure direct. Think about it. But I don't know exactly what's going on there.

Montoya

Try putting your receiver on stereo mode and turning off mcacc for two channel listening I found this works best for music in my setup.

disneyjoe7

Dan, see your point on room settings as for as eq but sound levels in a 2 channel mode. But to be fair my old Onk did the same thing not MCACC but for sound levels needed to keep the L / R levels at 0db and raise the center, and rear surrounds channels so the pure audio mode worked at 0db.

disneyjoe7

Montoya wrote: »

Try putting your receiver on stereo mode and turning off mcacc for two channel listening I found this works best for music in my setup.

I thought the Stereo mode sounded like the Worse thing I ever heard in my system when I did it. It was going to getting $$$ if it sounded like that I was happy that day.