Not sure if this is the right forum or the right title.
Please bear with me.
When setting up to listen to music in stereo the advice seems to follow the lines of source, amp, speakers. Position the speakers in the best position that the manufacturer and your ears decide upon. All being well audio nirvana.
When setting up for multichannel follow the above initial set up as above, using the 6 speakers instead of 2. However then the advice seems to be to go through a process of measuring and in crude terms use electronic bass, mid and treble controls to adjust the sound. Then all being well Audio nirvana.
Then people seem when listening in 2 channel seem to switch all the electronics off and go source direct or whatever you AV receiver calls.
Also the advice seems to be to add a stereo amp in for 2 channel instead of the AV receiver. I have tried this with a Marantz amp I have and in my instance got no improvement.
I tend to listen to 2 channel with the Sub added into the mix with my main 2 speakers.
I do not like the result the MCACC from my Pioneer gives me as it sounds too "aggressive" with it on so have put in the distances and levels manually.
So I guess my question is why the minimalist route with stereo and the complex route with multichannel, would the simplistic stereo set up benefit multichannel or would the complex multichannel set up benefit the stereo set up
DrH
Please bear with me.
When setting up to listen to music in stereo the advice seems to follow the lines of source, amp, speakers. Position the speakers in the best position that the manufacturer and your ears decide upon. All being well audio nirvana.
When setting up for multichannel follow the above initial set up as above, using the 6 speakers instead of 2. However then the advice seems to be to go through a process of measuring and in crude terms use electronic bass, mid and treble controls to adjust the sound. Then all being well Audio nirvana.
Then people seem when listening in 2 channel seem to switch all the electronics off and go source direct or whatever you AV receiver calls.
Also the advice seems to be to add a stereo amp in for 2 channel instead of the AV receiver. I have tried this with a Marantz amp I have and in my instance got no improvement.
I tend to listen to 2 channel with the Sub added into the mix with my main 2 speakers.
I do not like the result the MCACC from my Pioneer gives me as it sounds too "aggressive" with it on so have put in the distances and levels manually.
So I guess my question is why the minimalist route with stereo and the complex route with multichannel, would the simplistic stereo set up benefit multichannel or would the complex multichannel set up benefit the stereo set up
DrH