Best Anthem ARC Genesis Calibration Methods & Results

With the addition of the Audio Advice Revelation chairs to the Techthusiasm home theater, it was time to re-calibrate the audio with Anthem ARC Genesis on my AVM 70. I made some other audio tweaks to the room as well, so I'm covering the complete update to my measuring methods, ARC tweaks, and current results.

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[plouie]

I wanted to thank you for your deep dives. I just upgraded from MRX1120 to the MRX140 and was finding it way to bright and fatiguing. Adjusting the tilt level you described in your video made a world of difference for me. So just wanted to thank you for your efforts

[immorion]

Thanks for the video. I've been working on setting up my new AVM90 and I really appreciate the updated info on your journey. I'm going to play around with the higher measurement counts and compare with standard 5 measurements. I have a challenging room. I move furniture around when I add my second row and that changes my main listening position. So fun to mess around with this stuff.

[damicodrums]

Thanks Jaremy, glad the focus is on the theatre for awhile.

[Techthusiasm]

After thinking about some of the settings, in a future re-run I may consider going back to full 20k correction on the LCR given the AT screen. I'm also thinking that I might have wanted to manually boost the tops a little bit as that would have given ARC more margin to correct the big dips the tops show. As well as possibly, experimenting to bring the tilt back in.

Let me know what else you think might be good to tweak. Of course, I'll be doing this all again very soon as the AVM 90 is ordered and confirmed. Once the 90 comes, I may go ahead with two measurements as well, one focused only around my seat more tightly and one spread across the full row perhaps with 7 or so positions for solo versus group room use. I could easily swap between those settings with the Control4 Halo.

[SealedOrPorted]

I will be interested to see your SW response with 4 and how well the 90 incorporates them. Given my diminished upper register hearing, I stopped correcting peaks above 2kHz which helps me now that I use the space over 90% of the time.

[Rob_James]

Great video. I have to redo my calibration with Dirac since I have a few new subs. It’s just so time consuming. Maybe this weekend. Also have to learn how to use REW so I can see what my subs are doing

[adamjj]

Good stuff. I would consider doing another measurement and using one for just you and one for all seats. You have the profiles available and you might be surprised at the difference.

[failingup]

If you want to go back in later and change things in the ARC file.. How do you do it? Love the Focals. I didn't know there where in wall speakers where you can angle the tweeter.. That a great idea.

[we]

Thank you for your video vertigo useful but I ran a calibration with 10 measurements ARC Genesis and it got to all distances wrong what am I missing

[FrankieKennethL]

Jaremy, have you purchased a microphone like Umik-1 to check your results in REW yet? I really really recommend you do. Automatic calibrations get you about 80% of the way and using REW is really when you can take it to that peak performance level. It really helped me understand my room and more specifically how it was affecting my speakers so I could mitigate better . It’s eye opening

[we]

Why is Anthem still not allowing you to calibrate all the subs together, I bought this receiver especially for having 4 subwoofers! Does the Marantz AV10 has the ability to calibrate all four subs at once?

[bigbro]

thanks for all the help. Just wondering do I need to do a Phase Adjustment run everytime I adjust a measurement within Arc Genesis?

[jasonc]

What firmware are you running? I see in the AVS forums that there is a big issue with the loss of bass.

[ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗΒΥΡΩΝΑ]

Jaremy grade video as usual.Please let me know something as you are expert at apple tv 4k 2022.I have a 1080p projector 2007 model with apple tv 4k 2022 and an old avr non atmos with 7.1 speaker set up.If i buy a new avr with atmos support and set the audio at apple tv to "atmos" and REMAIN 7.1 my set up because i cant atmos speaker set up(height channel etc).Shall i have higher audio bitrate at movies at itunes store??.Is it possible?I really want your opinion if you know in order to buy anew avr.

[zakkwylde]

IS there a way to toggle the genesis settings on/off on the AVM 70?

[jrep]

Do you go back and level match from the MLP after EQ?

[njrumenos]

That 2khz suck out from your LCR looks like potentially a phase issue in your speakers passive crossovers, often seen in klipsch speaker where the tweeter and mids or mids an woofers don’t sum correctly…
If you confirm there is nothing wrong with the crossover then correcting above 1-2khz is not such a great idea specifically in theater where there is more than 1 seat as this is going to ruin seat to seat accuracy, if you need to correct response above 2khz then use room acoustic treatments.
Keeping your 5 measurements tight within the MLP is the most desirable calibration method.

[JLRJ]

Have you thought about showing your graphs to Anthem Audio Lovers to see what they think or suggest?👴🏽