famasfilms
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Not to cast doubt on what you're hearing, but what about Audyssey One would cause this? Maybe OCA could explain.
I vividly recall scores of people over on AVS making these same exact comments after doing speed of sound correction. That tweak is so small as to be inaudible or at best, barely audible. Yet the placebo effect and the expectation bias were strong.
Read my previous post about the hybrid Frankenstein monster amateur attempt to combine an audyssey calibration with a room perfect calibration
Having a script to level match everything rather than doing it myself with a phone, and letting the Denon/audyssey drive the sub is much more preferable than the previous way. Which had the sub on the 1120, roomperfect doesn't have a "lower volume until in the green zone" but a manual that says "leave dial at 12pm". The Denon was set to no sub and large speakers to send all bass to the 1120. I have no idea whether that bass was just the LFE (the .1 info) or all bass/LFE which resulted in "double bass". I also don't know how "level matched" the sub was, esp with the dial at 12pm when on audyssey it's set to 0 and still just above green.
I think it's much simpler to just let the Denon have the sub so that movies .1 is sent directly to the sub. If I listen to music via spotify streaming on the 1120 then I don't need a sub and my Silver 500s certainly go very very low anyway. If I did want to listen to music with a sub then I can stream to the denon and set 2ch playback to use a sub- although presumably this would lose the better 'musicality' of the lyngdorf
So way bigger changes than just a sos correction.
The only remaining question is whether audyssey one on all 7.1.4 speakers is 'better' than having fronts set to L/R bypass and roomperfect enabled on those, but I'm not sure how I could verify that. I'm not a technical guy that can use REW to make graphical comparisons, so for now I'm happy just to put full trust in Audyssey One, which as mentioned, sounds a lot better, more clarity to front speakers, cleaner bass etc.
Just waiting for upstairs neighbour to go out so I can run audyssey for a third time - only because the first two times the 1120 was still configured with a sub connected
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