Audyssey SETUP GUIDE - Get the BEST RESULTS!

Are you new to home theater and have never ran Audyssey? Are you a seasoned home theater enthusiast but have never been impressed with Audyssey's results and end up turning it off? Then try this setup guide and maximize the results you get from Audyssey! Be sure to like, subscribe and hit that bell icon to be notified when I upload a video!

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[sgds]

Home theater gamer, I think most people including myself would like to see you setup your system from start to finish . That way we get-a basic idea what to look for. You know show n tell.. Thanks

[BLACKRS]

This is very helpful to me. It actually improved my speaker sound. thanks.

[demoncamberx]

What's not mentioned in this video but is very important to know, is do not ever set the crossover for the speakers any lower than where Audyssey initially sets them.

[jvdh_bnb]

The production quality of these videos is insane. Subscribed!

[joesnyder]

Thank you. Just changing the crossover settings to 80 made a big difference.

[michaelgeorge]

I don't get why so many people say to leave dynamic eq off. It is the best thing about audyssey and was a night and day difference to me. The sound after turning it on was incredible. With it off, it was dead and lifeless.

[rindershow]

You are absolutely correct on audyssey setting sub levels to -12db when it tells you to set it at 1/2 dial on the gain.

[rkumarblr]

Finished the Audyssey setup and agree that resetting the levels of the speakers post the setup, as is being suggested in the video, does make a significant difference. Only in my case I used the test tones from the AVR for the purpose and set at 75dB using C Slow with the Radio Shack meter set to 80 dB with master volume at 0dB. The reason for AVR test tones is because the level setting on the AVR comes along with the test tone and I do not know how to switch them off to use with a demo disc. Should be something basic but don’t know.

[cbrb]

The se ret with this on your receiver is when you want greater bass before setting up turn your bass to low then turn it up very little whereas it is barely audible and voila that Audyseey Mic will have it thumping .
Another note: you will still have to turn each speaker volume up because this mic will usually have the volume low and sound like trash

[kevinMosmen]

Another great video! Thank you Brad. How do you not have millions of followers?!

[Squishmallows]

I keep running into the subwoofer problem that sets them to -12db after calibration. How do I fix this without having to buy a setup disc?

[schemkesa]

I did the Audyssey set-up, but thought the overall balance (levels) was better, didn't liked the EQ. To flat. It succesfully EQ'ed the umpff out of my large frontspeakers, but I just love that. And I have dipole speakers and don't think Audyssey is compatible with those dipole speakers

[TobyPasta]

I was wondering what I did wrong with Audyssey but now I'm gonna watch this and make sure I have everything set up right. Thank you for this video, and fantastic work on this as well! This is really high quality!

[SagnolTheGangster]

Thanks for the info man, u really helped me through the setup process. Cheers!

[mzaentertainment]

Hi thank you for the tutorial. I just want to ask about subwoofer volume. In my case if I set the volume to 50%, i will never get the sub volume at the same level during test tone. If I raise the volume to match the front DB level, i will end up with too loud bass during watching the movie. Is it necessary to match sub db level to my front?

[thesoulexpressshow]

Nice video but I just want to point out for potential readers that the best thing is to always test for themself and not just copy paste settings.

Example:

On some systems setting the front speakers to large and lfe + main gives better sound.

There is no right or wrong use your ears and make the sound like you love it.

Cheers

[finkle]

I’m watching because it always seems that everybody changes everything audyssuy set up does, so trying to figure out what the benefit of running it?? Personally, I thing the EQ setting sound terrible, so is the only benefit is to get distance correct?

[akasinned]

Wow, turns out I been doing it wrong all along. Who new all listening positions were based off the main listening position. I always wondered why each listening position had to be 2 feet or less from the 1st position. All my listening positions were based off individual positions for each person. You cleared up a lot, no wonder my system sounds like crap LOL.

[sipet]

When turning off dynamic Eq and dynamic volume the sound lost everything. Sounds awful but most of the setup videos says to turning off. What did I wrong?

[janlinhart]

I don't understand what you meant by matching levels only on left front and subwoofer. Could you pls explain? I mean why just those two?