Got my onkyo 806 today a couple questions....

Polkie918

So first think I noticed when hooking this up .....I had my 606 bi-amped and I noticed that I had the tweeter and the bass hookups switched around.....the new 806 said to have the bass hooked into the front and then the tweeter hooked into the surround back....I had those wrong on my previous setup...would that of made it sound weird??



also I ran the setup mic and this is how it came out...

My speakers are set to 6 ohm...

front is full band
center is full band....
rears are 80hz (thx)
lpf to lfe is 80z(thx)
double bass is on..


thx audio setup......

thx ultra2/select2 subwoofer is on NO???


left -3.5
center -3.5
sur right -3.5
sur left -3.5
subwoofer -15.0DB


any other settings I should mess with...I know this has alot of features..

let me know thanks alot

kuntasensei

No matter what it says your front and center are, change them to 80Hz. Onkyo's implementation of Audyssey detects anything that can hit 80Hz as "full range", and your RTi8 and CSi5 will get a much cleaner sound once you offload the sub-80Hz duties to that Velodyne. Change LPF of LFE to 120Hz (Audyssey doesn't adjust this - it defaults to 80Hz to meet THX specs, but should be set to 120Hz so you're passing the whole LFE channel to your subwoofer).

If your subwoofer is reading at -15dB, you have the gain on the subwoofer itself too high. I recommend backing it off a bit and re-running the first three positions of Audyssey until you get the subwoofer trim to read no lower than -5dB (though for signal reasons, you want it near 0).

Once you've done that, go through all 8 positions of Audyssey using the mic on a tripod with the mic's capsule at ear level. Do positions 1-3 on your seating, with position 1 being your center listening position (i.e. where distance detection should take place), then 2 and 3 being to left and right of that, at least 2 feet to the sides of center. Then mimic positions 1-3 about 18-24" further into the room to give Audyssey a better idea of how the sound is further away from room boundaries. Then do positions 7 and 8 somewhere in the middle of all those positions. The more positions you do, the more data Audyssey has about how your room affects the sound and the better end result you'll get with the equalization. A good tip for mic placement during Audyssey is not to ever place the mic so that it is too far to left or right of either of the front speakers. Visualize a 45 degree cone coming out of your front three speakers. All of your mic placements should fall in positions where all three of those cones overlap to ensure that you aren't too far off the center axis of any of the front speakers at any mic position. If your mains are placed wide apart, angle them in so that 45 degree cone of sound overlaps slightly at all your main listening positions.

dorourke07

Wow, great instructions. I need to set up my Onkyo again.

Polkie918

Thanks I will do that....My room is setup weird.....its a split level house so my couch backs up to a half wall and my tv is approx 8-9 feet in front of me....so my two rear speakers are actually right on the side of the couch about 2-3 feet away from the couch.....

so everything behing me is airspace and a vaulted ceiling to the wall approx 8-10 feet behing my couch and 1/2 wall...i hope u all know what I mean...so I dont know how I would run the mic again behind me........

kuntasensei

Yeah, not really getting what you mean. If you could take a pic of the room, that would help.

But you said you don't know how you would run the mic again behind you. I wasn't saying to do the mic behind you. You want to do 1-3 at your main seating, 4-6 about 18-24" in FRONT of you, then 7 and 8 somewhere in the middle of that. I like to use this pattern:

6_4_5 <- 18-24" in front of 1-3.
_7_8_ <- Tripod placed flush against front of couch.
3_1_2 <- Tripod placed in seating so mic is where your ears would be.

Just make sure for positions 1-3 that you have the mic's capsule slightly above the headrest of your seating. This will give you a good overall equalization for your entire listening area.