My issue is not with optimum placement or crossover settings. It's with the inability to readily adjust output volumes from the sub for any given source.
When we set up our systems, we do it to fixed freqencies. Once we set everything up to our satisfaction, we are then at the mercy of the source material (music, movies ect)
Depending on who engineered the source material, you can have huge differences in the actual sound of the source material.
I have always found the sub levels to be the biggest culprit. This is why I am so surprised, in this day and age that there is not a direct access to the sub volume on the remotes.
Simple example. Give me the perfect room with the system dialed in perfectly.
Put on Diana Krall live in Paris DVD and enjoy the wonderful sound of the acoustic bass, but just a touch more bass volume for that particular song or passage would be perfect.
Tha is the tweaking I refer to.
Change DVD's and put on AC/DC at reference levels.
I want more output from the sub for this.
I simply wat to raise the sub volume for that particular recording or track.Again, that is the tweaking I am speaking about.
I am happy with the sub's integration into my mains and surrounds, I just want to be able to cotrol the sub volume readily from my listening position without needing to get up and fiddle with the gain control at the back of the sub or go through sub menues to do so.