I have a lovely BV11-55 (thanks Ian!) paired with some BL18's as front speakers, and a BL19 Sub for extra bass. It's integrated with a BS Moment for (lossless) audio streaming via Deezer.

I have setup a couple of presets for TV watching. film watching and music listening that cast the speakers into different groupings, and use different settings. The main difference is the use (or not) of the TV speakers as a 'centre' speaker for TV & Film use and the relative volume of the Sub.

The room is largely rectangular, with the TV on the wall on the 'long' side with BL18's about 1m either side of the BV11. The BL19 is off behind, and to the right, about 4m away from the centre listening position.

These presets have been in place for 6 or so months, and generally work well. Imaging is good (and when I can get some rears I expect will get even better).

I've been playing with the advanced settings the BV11 affords - of which there are many! - and wonder if there's a good working guide as to how to approach this in amore structured way than "try it and see"?

For instance, I originally had the dB offset levels for the 18's and 19 set to (+) values to account for their increased distance from the listener (and as described was happy with the stereo imaging) but had a play, and tried some (-) negative db values for the 18's (but keeping the 19 at a (+) positive value) and was genuinely surprised at how better the overall sound was.

Much less boom, and much more controlled balance. Great!

So, I wonder if there's any resources for helping us to achieve optimal setups - guiding us through the more esoteric options like db offsets, frequency crossovers and roll offs, and ceiling settings etc. Can't help but feel I'm fumbling around in the dark - which is fun - but could be better approached.

Basically, has anyone trapped and bottled the TonMeister ;-)

Thanks in advance

Tom