[The Fives: Boomy/too loud bass on external subwoofer after update to 1.6.12]

Luckily someone posted firmware 5.8.0 on this forum (link). I made the downgrade and it works great now.

[The Fives: Boomy/too loud bass on external subwoofer after update to 1.6.12]

@OO1 I'll do that.

@billybob yeah, but whatever I do it just looks like the speakers output way too much bass to the subwoofer. Changing controls on the speakers and the sub doesn't make the issue much better.

[The Fives: Boomy/too loud bass on external subwoofer after update to 1.6.12]

Hi, after updating my Klipsch The Fives to 1.6.12 the bass on my R-100SW sub is too loud i.e. boomy. I didn't change settings on the sub, the loudness was set to about 70%. Now even if I set it to about 10% is still boomy, on the Fives bass loudness is set to default (after reset with button on the remote). There's also a Reddit thread where the same issue is mentioned. Please let me downgrade to some older firmware e.g. 5.8.0, I cannot find it anywhere. I don't really care about the app, I just want my speakers to sound as well as before.

 

EDIT: There's also another thread mentioning this issue.

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The bass coming out of my sub seems much higher than before the update.

... But the bass still seems a lot louder than it was before the update

... When I hit the 'reset sub volume' button on the remote, the volume level(for the sub) on the Fives LED lights appears to go to 4 out of 6 lights (which seems pretty high)

 

[The Fives — Dynamic Bass EQ]

Hi, I have these speakers as long as you do and I can say for sure that if you toggle the Dynamic Bass EQ with your remote between a single and double blink, on a bass heavy track you'll hear a significant difference. Though my room is not too big and the speakers are rather close to the wall. Maybe if yours are far away and in a big room then you could have problem hearing the difference.

 

Or maybe there's a technical problem. E.g. my sub out stopped working, i.e. my sub doesn't get any signal so...