Steve07

Wow you guys have been amazing in terms of helping me out thank you all for that. Yesterday I started off auto calibrating my system with the Yamaha mic and it sounded better than before. I then started to do minor tweaks to the system myself like change all the speakers to small and the crossover frequency to 80Hz I turned LFE mode on my sub off. I haven't had time to really move my sub to my seat and go around the room to see which is the best spot for it yet but will do that soon. The only other thing I want to do now is go in and manually adjust some of the speaker levels. One thing, should I start with all the speakers at the same level and then start to adjust from there? Should the center be like 20% louder than the fronts? Since all the dialogue comes from their and I don't want my fronts to drown out my center. Also with the sub should I keep it to normal phase or reverse? I have it on normal as of now. Also to answer your question THX I am using my RF62's as my rear speakers not the side surrounds.

Thanks guys for your answer/suggestions so far. You have helped clear up some of the problems I was having. I will try that with my sub when I get some time after work today bigdaddy. I'm going to try and calibrate the speakers after work today manually as well. One thing bigdaddy when you say to put all the speakers as small on the receiver even the front ones? I will pick up a Speaker level meter after work and will try and calibrate with it. I hope it’s not too complex for me lol. Billybob sorry if this sounds stupid but what do you mean I might want to qualify my sub? I have to go through and read my manual on my receiver a bit more before doing some of these things so I don't screw anything up but you guys have been allot of help so far thanks again. I can't wait till I start learning more about this stuff and tweak my speakers so I can really enjoy them(not that I don’t love my set up already)

Hey guys what’s up? The title speaks for its self lol. I'm very new to this whole HT set up thing and would love some help on my HT set up. First off I'll list what I have going into my HT. Speakers: Fronts: 2 RF 82's Center: RC52 Surrounds: 2 RF62's Might be getting 2 R42's for side surround speakers soon. Sub: 1 RW10D also might get a second one of these as an extra sub. Receiver: I have a Yamaha 6180 Wire: 16 gauge Monster wire. OK with that outta the way I have set up all my speakers so far and have a few questions. 1. I have connected my fronts and rears on the bottom row of inputs on the speakers the Lf row. Should I be doing that or should the fronts be on the Hf row and the rears on the Lf row? Or all on Hf? Or leave it as is now lol. 2. What impedance should on my receiver or does it do that automatically? My buddy keeps telling me about making sure the frequency for the speakers is set properly(don't have a clue what he is talking about) Also should I use the auto calibration mic that comes with the receiver or should I go manually and set the speakers up through the advanced setting option on my receiver? 3. My sub right now is in the front of my room off to the side near a corner should I have the phase at 0 or 180? Sorry if some of these questions are stupid I'm just really new at this lol. I can get the stuff hooked up but this other stuff is allot to take in. Anything else I might need to look for feel free to add on. Thanks in advance guys.