Jotnar02

When I meant that reference levels were loud, I meant that the whole system is extremely loud when all the speakers are set to 75 db using VE. I guess I didn't really know how loud 85db-105 db is. There is not much difference in loudness between my RC-3 and my RF-3s. When calibrating with a sound level meter I only had to set the RC-3 three db higher than the mains. The main difference is in tone. As I've said before, the RF-3s have a higher pitch using pink noise. However par of the problem seems to be the room. Since the RC-3 is sitting in a wooden cabinet, I packed some rubbery foam around the speaker and it actually sounds better, with less distortion at higher levels. I guess that cut down on the vibration of the cabinet. My whole system sounds good, I was just wondering if anyone else noticed a difference between the RC-3 and RF-3s when running pink noise.

I have all my speakers set to small so that's not the problem. The sound difference is not huge but I'm just curious if anyone else hears a difference between the RF-3 and RC-3 during pink noise tests. Or you can hear it during movies if you switch between 5.1 and stereo. The RC-3 is deeper with more midrange than the RF-3s.

Here's the problem. During movies, my center channel sounds muddy compared to my mains (RF-3s). From everything I've heard the RC-3 is typically brighter than the RF-3s. But I have to bump up the RC-3 by 6db in order to even understand the dialogue. Since it seems that quite a few people use the RF-3/RC-3 combo I'm hoping that someone has run into this problem. During pink noise tests i can really tell the difference. The RC-3 sounds deeper and quieter than the RF-3s. I'm using a Denon AVR-3300 for my reciever although i doubt that's the problem. Maybe I'm just being too picky, but if there's something wrong with my speaker i can still return it so plz let me know. Thanks