Harman Kardon 354 set-up mic

I have one from an AVR247 you can borrow. Let me know your mailing address and I'll send it out.

For me, the mic calibration did a good job at getting the settings close. I had to bump the crossover setting down on the center channel. Male voices sounded thin at the calibrated setting.

domflane wrote: »

Thanks again to CTTE, I got the setup mic and ran the calibration on my rig the other day. The results were interesting. My AVR set the fronts to Large, the center at 150 HZ, the sub to present and the surrounds at 40 HZ. It also set the sub at -5 with everything else about equal. I'm just curious why it would set the mains to Large and then turn the sub level down. The center being crossed at 150 hz doesn't make sense either . . does anyone have any insight on this? I watched 2012 last night and had to turn the sub back up to get some decent bass.

These auto-calibration settings are designed to objectively level match all the different channels, and flatten the frequency response across the sound-stage. I don't have any experience with EZset, but with Audyssy, I usually find that some subjective fine tuning post auto-calibration is necessary. For instance, most of us have an appetite for bass that from a purely DB standpoint, is much louder than the mains. Our ears are less sensitive to low frequencies.....80db at 30hz 'sounds' much softer to my ears than 80db at 200hz.

The setting of the cross-overs by audyssey is usually less than ideal too, as it has a habit of crossing my mains and center over at frequencies below the -3db roll-off point. Of course this points to different room effects coming into play (particularly boundary gain in the lower frequencies), but the whole point of these auto-calibration systems is to normalize room effects. That isn't to say there aren't flaws though!