Please help... having problems with muddy overwhelming bass

[Benedict_Arnold]

Stop listening to Jedward

 

[newlash09]

Stop listening to Jedward

You have to forgive my poor sense of humour

But who is Jedward. I've only heard of king Edward that rhymes close enough

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

^ You REALLY don't want to know.

On a more serious level, I would certainly try a different chair. The high back and wings could be "funneling" sound, and doing so in an unacceptable way.

Get herself a nice "Frasier's dad" La-Z-Boy. No. Really.

 

[aliEnRIK]

And with audyssey flat setting on, my front floor standers are not booming any more. I don't know how audyssey does it. But Very glad for now

Can you not turn audyssey completely off? My marantz definitely sounds better by turning it off. Audyssey 'might' give the right audible range, but it removes detail and musicality in the process.

 

[macdiddy]

I found the sound from my previous Onyko amp with audyssey switched on to be flat and lifeless with both music and movies, soon as I turned it off the sound was much better.

*music2*

 

[newlash09]

Had tried disabling audyssey completely. But do to the proximity of the floor standers to the rear wall there was discernable boom in my room.

Just yesterday came across the review of marantz sr6012 in home theatre hifi magazine. He bought the marantz audyssey app, and in that he disabled audyssey intervention above 800 Hz. And per the reviewer the sound was back to sounding natural. Would have to try this once Iam back home from my boat

Will start a seperate thread to promulgate same for the benefit of other marantz owners.

 

[Sliced Bread]

Glad you have got your self sorted out but have you tried setting the crossover at 80hz through your Av for all speakers that way the subwoofer is doing all of the low frequencies for bass

I now have all speakers running at a 80 Hz crossover. And the sub in bypass mode. And everything sounds so lovely. Now I wish my main stereo sounded this good. But it is lacking room correction. That will be my next port of call. A mini DSP or Dirac live

Totally worth considering an anti-mode. I was a huge naysayer in the past due to the a-d-a conversion but a few here convinced me to try one and it’s resulted in the best bass I’ve ever had

Smooth, deep and balanced.

 

[Sliced Bread]

Glad you have got your self sorted out but have you tried setting the crossover at 80hz through your Av for all speakers that way the subwoofer is doing all of the low frequencies for bass

I now have all speakers running at a 80 Hz crossover. And the sub in bypass mode. And everything sounds so lovely. Now I wish my main stereo sounded this good. But it is lacking room correction. That will be my next port of call. A mini DSP or Dirac live

Totally worth considering an anti-mode. I was a huge naysayer in the past due to the a-d-a conversion but a few here convinced me to try one and it’s resulted in the best bass I’ve ever had

Smooth, deep and balanced.

 

[newlash09]

I think you had suggested the antimode once in the past too. Will surely check it up. Thanks

 

[Sliced Bread]

I think you had suggested the antimode once in the past too. Will surely check it up. Thanks

You’re welcome. Definitely worth a try and you can always return it if you don’t like it...but I think you will