Improve smoothness across the fronts

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Morning all,

I am wondering if anyone knows any tricks / tips to improve smoothness across the front three? Now i understand that it may just be my system (neat motive 1's and centre speaker) and will have to live with it, but was just wondering if there was anything i could try to improve it. Its pretty smooth from front to rears and surround by the way. I was wondering if it could be to do with the motive's laid back design? i have propped up the centre with some spike feet.

Thanks in advance

 

[Anonymous]

Anyone?

 

[Anonymous]

Could try removing the center speaker all together...

 

[Sorreltiger]

Perhaps it would help if you described the problem in a bit more detail. Amongst other things, it could be a question of balance or speaker position, but they require different solutions (hopefully not the one suggested above!)

 

[Anonymous]

The sweep across the fronts is not seamless / smooth. The speakers have been set up with auto set up on my onkyo 905. The side speakers are approx 1m away from teh edge of the tv either side (42inc pana) and the centre speaker is of course slap bang in the middle.

I have played around with the balance a little but its difficult to do with some sort of test material i guess?? something that has sweeps in it to test the system by ear? I have got a sound meter but belive it or not it doesnt quite work out with my room with all speakers giving 75db ish at my seating position, the sound field seems very one sided.

Thanks for your interest in the post mate

 

[Sorreltiger]

I'm a bit at a loss, TBH. However, I wonder if the lack of cohesion might be a tonal imbalance between the floorstanders (with their double bass units) and the centre. You could experiment with setting them on 'small' (I'm guessing you might have the fronts set as 'large') and raising the crossover point a little to make the sub do more work.

 

[Frank Harvey]

If you've set your levels with a level meter, they should be correct. One possibility, is that maybe your hearing is slightly off in one ear - I know mine is slightly off to the left.

Other than that, is one of the speakers nearer to a wall than the other? You may be getting reflections from a side wall, making it sound lopsided, but then the meter reading should change accordingly. If your speakers are near the side walls, toe them in a little to cut back on this.

 

[TheHomeCinemaCentre]

How does it sound in stereo? Is it just when you introduce the centre that things go a miss? You could check that the centre is not out of phase - a tricky thing to detect with the whole system going.

Have you set a delay on the centre ( or did the amp) as that may be the culprit. Does it sound out of balance when you are listening to a Dolby Digital or similar sound track or is it when you are using a sound mode such as Pro Logic II?

 

[Anonymous]

Some interesting points chaps, thanks for the replies! Truth is its been a while since i had a proper play with them / set them up. I do remember having to mess around with it after using the sound meter as it didnt sound right (in stereo and with the surround). It could well be my ears! lol What i did was set it up with audessy a few times untill i was in agreement with the speakers distances and what have you and then tested it with the sound meter and adjusted to suit so that it was about 75-75.5 ish db on the low setting on the sound meter. I will dig out the sound meter again and have a little play about and try the blu ray and stereo. Can anyone recommend good test material for smoothness across the fronts? Im guessing something like the final battle at the end of transformers (1st one) would be a good shout.

The front two speakers are pretty much the same distance from walls on on all fronts.

I only really watch blu rays so it would be the HD sound formats.

 

[Anonymous]

Gents, i may have found teh issues! I didnt think the centre sounded right so i have taken off thefront gill and put my ear up to each cone. There is a cone on either side of teh tweeter. The left cone is way louder than the right!!! I will check my connections, im hoping the centre is not shot!! Its only taken me a year to figure it out!!

Edit: Just educated myself on two and half way speakers! It would seem that its right to have one louder than the other as one cone deals with the base and the other with the mid range, hence the difference in noise coming from one with the test tone

 

[Anonymous]

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