Now, once you do have four subs in the room sure, you can work on getting their level dialed in. You can kill yourself trying all the different methods. Or you can set the crossover to about 80 and then adjust the volume levels. If you have something like the Dayton SA1000 then you can also use the one band EQ, bass boost, and or low cut filters to tweak things.
I highly recommend doing all this by ear. Because, see Equal Loudness Contours. Meters measure equally regardless of volume. But our hearing changes dramatically with volume. So you can have it measure flat, but it will only sound flat at one volume level. Above that it will sound like too much bass, below that too little. So it is a trade off compromise situation.
In my case, I made some pretty big swings early on, then within a few days got to where I was making smaller and smaller changes further and further apart.
You can get more detailed about it but this really is all there is to it. Listen to a lot of different music over a long enough period of time and then make only a very tiny change. Because you will find some records will sound like there is no bass, the subs are doing nothing. This is the way it should always be. You do not ever want to feel like you are listening to subs. I sure don't. Read the comments. Most people don't even know there are 5 subs in the room until I point them out.
Tim, Noble100 used the crawl method. I tried that, you can do it, but read up and notice we all wind up with pretty much the same thing in the end. Then we all wind up making tiny incremental tweaks until finally at some point, done.
I highly recommend doing all this by ear. Because, see Equal Loudness Contours. Meters measure equally regardless of volume. But our hearing changes dramatically with volume. So you can have it measure flat, but it will only sound flat at one volume level. Above that it will sound like too much bass, below that too little. So it is a trade off compromise situation.
In my case, I made some pretty big swings early on, then within a few days got to where I was making smaller and smaller changes further and further apart.
You can get more detailed about it but this really is all there is to it. Listen to a lot of different music over a long enough period of time and then make only a very tiny change. Because you will find some records will sound like there is no bass, the subs are doing nothing. This is the way it should always be. You do not ever want to feel like you are listening to subs. I sure don't. Read the comments. Most people don't even know there are 5 subs in the room until I point them out.
Tim, Noble100 used the crawl method. I tried that, you can do it, but read up and notice we all wind up with pretty much the same thing in the end. Then we all wind up making tiny incremental tweaks until finally at some point, done.