hi, I don't have any of the calibration discs mentioned, but I was thinking I could make my own.  I think my yamaha rxv1700 has a 7 band eq inside, I was thinking of burning a CD with 7 different tracks each with a sine wave tone generated at 0db RMS power, one for each frequency of the yamaha's EQ bands... so the question is, would ...

Hi all,  Foremost, I want to say that this post is as much a clarification of an earlier post as it is a download of my observations and feelings regarding Audyssey, MCACC, YPAO and the like. Second, I wanted to reitterate what we've all heard countless times but seem to forget in the heat of a spirited forum debate: Audio appreciation ...

I am curious if there is any recommendation as to wether it is preferrable to attenuate the levels or is it better to bump up the levels to achieve uniform speaker SPL response. Or it doesnt matter ? For instance i have 532 LRs in the front and 422LR at the side/back. The 532s are clearly louder at the same volume setting than the 422s. I was ...

During the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest I was given an SPL meter by the Aperion reps.  I never really did much with it since I already had a RadioShack SPL meter, but recently I have gotten into playing with audio measurement. In anticipation of using a PEQ with my sub, I used the RadioShack meter with 1/12 octave tones (between ~16Hz and ...