Passingbat
Distinguished Member
2. Using the PS3 to play music, the room seems to have really bad acoustics. In one corner, it sounds awesome and another, sounds like the Samsung LCD speakers as theres no bass, nothing shaking, sounds dead. I've then connected the sub and also moved it around but the sub only made a bit of difference. i thought the sub would rumble the room. I'm going to run the auto-setup using the mic tomorrow.
In my view, a sub is there to augment the base, particularly with the RSW12 with other RS speakers --- why would it shake the room with most music? It's the same with films; if set up properly, you shouldn't be aware of anything coming out of the sub, it's more a case of knowing that something is wrong with the sound if the sub wasn't there. I think that sometimes there can be a tendancy to listen to the sub rather than the overall sound.
Setting the sub to EQ2 will give it a bit of a boost; I'm still playing with that setting, but apart from in action films, where using the EQ2 is still debatable for my liking, EQ1 is the setting that I will normally have it on.
I realise I may be in a minority in this view of how a sub should work, as I know a lot of people like one that throws them off their seat so just my opinion.