Yamaha RX-V3800 Ventilation.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Well, this one I can't help ya with. From day one I've had issues with lower frequencies and my listening area. Room modes they call them. I can walk behind the couch and get good low end, but if I walk inside the area about 10' away from my mains, bass almost completely disappears. Things improved greatly when I added the amp, but the phenomenon still exists.

Do you have or are you adding a subwoofer to your setup?

[thxpaul]

Well, this one I can't help ya with. From day one I've had issues with lower frequencies and my listening area. Room modes they call them. I can walk behind the couch and get good low end, but if I walk inside the area about 10' away from my mains, bass almost completely disappears. Things improved greatly when I added the amp, but the phenomenon still exists.

Do you have or are you adding a subwoofer to your setup?

I DID have a mission 70ASA sub up until last october but the amp inside it blew so I've yet to replace it. Up until now bass levels with my fronts were good without the sub powered by the 2300 - but the 3800 sounds as though bass levels are set lower by default or something, nothing an adjustment can't fix - but on my 2300 I didn't play with the treble/bass knobs at all and the bass was stronger.

[GMichael]

Have you run the auto set-up yet? Out of the box, there's no telling what settings you have.

[thxpaul]

Have you run the auto set-up yet? Out of the box, there's no telling what settings you have.

Hey if you're talking about the YPAO setup with the microphone, then yes i ran it but it unbalanced all my speakers and I didn't really like that. Like the left surround was +2 while the right was .5... why the need for different levels?

Is there any other type of auto setup i should do?

[GMichael]

Hey if you're talking about the YPAO setup with the microphone, then yes i ran it but it unbalanced all my speakers and I didn't really like that. Like the left surround was +2 while the right was .5... why the need for different levels?

Is there any other type of auto setup i should do?

That's the one. I expect that the distances from each speaker to where you had the mic (where you sit) were not all the same. That's why it sets different levels. This is so that they all sound the same where you are sitting.
I don't like how it sets the EQ's either. I set each of them to flat when I'm done. Also, the set up doesn't do that great of a job with the sub levels. I always end up turning that up after it's done.