I previously used an Anthem AMV60 in my 7.2.4 setup. It was good for movies, but just okay (IMO) for music. So far, the MP-60 is a big step up.
@arisholm , would you mind messaging me your MP-50 setup guide that you previously posted for some added fine tuning? I looked back through 10-15 pages and cannot seem to locate it. Thanks in advance.
Yes I think my MP-50 works very well on music for sure and the MP-60 cannot be worse I assume
Regarding the "guide": after having helped out tweaking quite a few systems lately I realise that my almost one year old recommendations were a bit naive, I thought the experiences with my own systems were applicable "in general", but as it turns out - not really, e.g. depending on the room and reflections, woofer vs tweeter time alignment in your speakers, etc ;-) I think it is quite difficult to make a general recipe as I seem to discover new things that must be "dealt with" each time... But at a very general level:
(1) Find the initial time/distance setting of the sub first, meaning a relative delay such that the sub starts moving air about the same time as the lower frequencies of your woofers in your speakers.
(2) Then tweak the delay of the subs in small increments (usually, but not always, into longer distance settings on the sub) to make the phase overlap optimally in the crossover region.
The question is how you do those points in the most reliable way... my current favourite is to look at the "Excess group delay" for the subs vs mains in REW to determine a starting point for the delay (theory:
Minimum Phase), another way is the acoustic timing reference but it is less reliable because tweeters are inherently a LOT faster than woofers (depending on the speakers), the third is to start with a distance corresponding to the rear of the subs (the simplest but the least accurate way). And then, vary a few ms around that starting point to find the best match in terms of phase at the crossover... and as I said, typically, you would want to delay the speakers a bit more from that initial starting point, so in other words, increase the distance setting of the subs incrementally in say 30cm increments until you get the highest SPL in the crossover region (e.g., 60-120Hz for a XO at 100Hz). That is often a "very good" distance setting..
cheers