Stupid Newbie Bass Question


Okay all you audiophiles and aficionados- when you watch local and network TV (HD broadcasts) does your bass sound boomy like you're in a freeking flea market? My recently resurrected set-up sounds great with DVD's and movies on DTV, but LFE's are boomy and bloated during commercials, & news, all HD.

I have a 7.1 set-up, NHT VT-2 Towers, VS-2 Center Channel, iC4 x 4 in-ceiling (side + rear surrounds). All powered by a Denon 3803 and NHT SA3 sub amp to bi-amp the side-firing subs on the VT-2's.

Maybe I need to adjust the high-pass, low-pass and phase controls on the back of the SA3? I find adjusting this amp confusing as hell.

Sounds great w/ HD movies and CD's. Maybe it's just my system delivering crappy sound accurately. Thoughts?
760raptor

Showing 1 response by plato

Don't know... I have Comcast Cable and the sound is well balanced all the way around except that sometimes CD's tend to sound more boomy than other programming.

Though from what you've said it sounds like you don't have the bass fully dialed in. And you're right it's pretty confusing and difficult to get right even when you know what you're doing. I'd experiment more with the settings... sometimes the phase alignment (distance of speaker to listener) makes a rather large difference, so experiment with that as well.