Thanks for that. I did use Audyssey when setting up which allows you to setup multiple listening positions. However, after setting it up using this and testing the pink noise again, speaker volumes didn't seem to match up, and all of the speakers were set to low volume (-dB gains) in the speaker settings e.g. -4dB, another -2dB etc. and they didn't seem to match volumes from what I can remember. Technically, Audyssey should automate these measurements and settings for me.

then I wasn't sure if I can increase all speaker volumes by the same dB gain in order to not lose overall volume. Hard to explain so not sure if you're getting me.

So I re-calibrated the BL5's, then ran Audyssey again and set it up for 5 listening positions (3 of which are quite close to the rear left surround speaker).

Here is what Audyssey set:

Distances:

Left - 5.22m (seems too far, although I'm not sure if this is an average distance since I have multiple listening positions?)

Center - 2.52m

Right - 3.36m

Surr. right - 2.82m

Surr Left - 5.10m

Speaker Config:

Subwoofer - No

Center (BeoLab 7-2) - 40Hz Crossover

Surround (BeoLab 3's) - 40Hz Crossover

My front R and L are Beolab 5's.

Result:

Sounds good with Dynamic EQ turned on, and Audyssey set to "Music" mode. If I turn Dynamic EQ off, it sounds rather terrible to be honest.

But I still don't feel it's setup correctly. Reason being, sounds (music, and other material) doesn't quite sound "centered", with quite a bit of bias to the left side of the speaker setup, especially the left rear surround. 

Any advice?

what confuses me is that surely if this was connected to a B&O DVD player for example, it wouldn't do all of this "processing" that the Onkyo is doing, setting speaker distances, crossovers etc. It feels like I'm fiddling with the audio source too much and not letting "raw" audio pass to the BeoLabs to let them do the processing?

For example, music playing through my BeoSound 5 to the front BL5's via Powerlink sounds far more "punchy" than playing music through my amp to the speakers. So I feel the amp is not setup correctly, and all of these "settings"/ processing is messing up the audio passing to the speakers!?

thanks

Puncher wrote:

RussR wrote:

That seems like a question for the Onkyo forum!  😕

 

Shouldn't discourage anyone from connecting anything non-B&O to Lab 5's, you could ruin their life!

Sorry if I was unclear.  I did try to help with the connection.  My remark here was more about how to calibrate the set-up.