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Originally posted by Unferth:
[B] In the way he described it I can't imagine that anyone would design bass management to behave that way...

So.. it all matters when bass management is applied, before levels are set or after...

in this case then all of the speakers should be set to the same level or there'd be all kinds of varying bass levels... B]


bass management adjusts levels of redirected bass and LFE in the summing modules according to the speaker configuration (dolby 0, dolby 1, dolby 2, etc.). the signals used to do this, in the case of redirected bass, are duplicates of the 5 satellite signals. the subwoofer calibration has nothing to do with the individual satellite calibrations.

the only variable as regards redirected bass level, is user adjustment of the subwoofer level. this also affects the LFE signal equally, as the composite redirected bass signal and the LFE signal are summed to form 'one digital bass signal'. except, of course, in the case of all satellites set to 'large', where the sub gets only LFE.

i'm fairly certain that the 3803 was not designed to do what the poster said his does. IMO, he has a defective receiver.
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