how hot you run your sub?

[kinggimp]

How much hotter than your mains do you run your sub?

1. FLAT
2. +3 DB
3. +5 DB
4. +7 DB
5. +10 DB

[cschang]

Flat for music and about 2-3 dB hot for movies.

[cacihome]

Flat for music and about 2-3 dB hot for movies.
+3 for music and +5 for movies

[Liaury]

So far, 66% of users run their subs hot. What happened to "properly" calibrating your sub? ;)

[Bill3508]

I voted flat overall, but its really flat for movies, possibly +2 db for music, and +4db for XM compressed garbage.

Bill3508

[cacihome]

I voted flat overall, but its really flat for movies, possibly +2 db for music, and +4db for XM compressed garbage.

Bill3508


The subwoofer when you run it a little hot, gives you more realism, because the flat setting is too soft really...

I mean if a T-Rex puts a foot on my movie, I want all my house to shake, because that animal in reality must have felt that way...
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My opinion of course!!!

[lradden]

So far, 66% of users run their subs hot. What happened to "properly" calibrating your sub? ;)Boring, a little hot may not be a proper calibration, but it adds the oomph that makes things exciting.

[Ddavidson]

Flat for music and about 2-3 dB hot for movies.
2dB for movies ...... flat for music

Ddavidson

[Dudley]

I also run a little hot (couple of dB) on movies but flat for music - sometimes I just leave it hot though if I don't feel like changing it.

[bsoko]

+5, I like to hear the bass. I first tune my subs by spl meter first, then by ear. The underwater sound of racing boat engines and the water bubbles in the opening scene on the HDDVD version of Miami Vice is excellent for tuning a sub by ear. If you can hear the clarity of the sound track, then you should be good for anything. Then after that, I up my sub volume slightly to get just a tiny bit of distortion on that track and it is about +5 from my mains at 79.5 spl.

Bill

[mitchman]

Doesn't it depend on how loud you have the volume set on the back of the sub?

For example, I had my sub volume (back of the unit) set at 12-o-clock at first, but we ended up having the Sub Level on the amp set to -12 db for most movies. So I turned the volume to about 9-o-clock and now we have our amp output set to -5 db.

The mains are basically set to 0db. (one is actually slightly louder than the other)

As a result of the above, I didn't vote.