Reference level listening setup!!

[sta99y]

Hi forum users, Lately I been reading up on reference level listening. So this morning when wife at work and little man at grandma's I decided to dig out the YPAO for my Yamaha RXV2400 and do three calibrations to see if they were to differ, to my surprise they were within a whiska of each other. So now with the auto setup done would I be correct in saying that each speaker is at 75db or there abouts from the mic balanced on my head!! Lol. If so I then turn volume from -80 to 0 on the Amp & press play on T2 judgement day DVD, as I'm lead to believe this is reference level.

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Loud was an understatement! My speakers are KEF 2005.1 from when they first released. Have I understood reference level listening or have I messed up! Tbh it did sound good lol.

 

[aliEnRIK]

Im not even sure what your talking about there, but 0 on the volume control means its playing its loudest (Not recommended)

 

[sta99y]

No the volume goes to +14 my normal listening volume with the wife is around -27ish which she doesn't moan about. So at 0 it's not at full blast.

 

[Anonymous]

sta99y:

Hi forum users, Lately I been reading up on reference level listening. So this morning when wife at work and little man at grandma's I decided to dig out the YPAO for my Yamaha RXV2400 and do three calibrations to see if they were to differ, to my surprise they were within a whiska of each other. So now with the auto setup done would I be correct in saying that each speaker is at 75db or there abouts from the mic balanced on my head!! Lol. If so I then turn volume from -80 to 0 on the Amp & press play on T2 judgement day DVD, as I'm lead to believe this is reference level.

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Loud was an understatement! My speakers are KEF 2005.1 from when they first released. Have I understood reference level listening or have I messed up! Tbh it did sound good lol.

YPAQ should set things correct but you really should use a Sound level meter to check it manually and tweek the levels

By using this and the amp test tones you set each speaker to 75db

This usually equates to 0 on the amp volume which is probably too loud , I listen at -15 from reference

 

[sta99y]

Cheers it was exciting however it was a tad loud even for me lol. I do wonder how it's going to sound once it's connected to an LGBD390 using either re-encode or the miltichannel inputs!