KU40
07-23-2007, 08:55 AM
I built 3-ways for the center, left, and right channels that consist of 8" Dayton Reference, 6" Dayton Reference, and 1" Dayton classic tweeter. The crossover points are 80-300 for the 8", 300-3000 for the 6", and 3000+ for the tweet. I built the 8's into 1 cube tuned to 60 hz I think and have the 6's in sealed enclosures within the whole enclosure, I forget the size though, maybe .3 cubes. I'd show pictures but my internet at home isn't working right now.
Anyways, my problem is mostly with hearing talking in movies. I use the Dolby Digital processing on my receiver (It's a pioneer something or other, like two years old) for movies, and sometimes it's just hard to hear the voices, but every other sound is fine/great. Everything else comes in great, music sounds terrific on them (though usually I use other processing for that, like Advanced Music). Some TV stations will sound ok, some have the same voice problem. Is this normal for dolby processing, or should I change up my center channel to something that has better midrange (like MTM with 5's and a tweet, for example)?
One thing that may be a problem now is that the center channel is a tad below eye level when sitting due to it's box being so heavy that I can't sit it on the TV and haven't gotten a wall-mount TV stand for it yet. It's below the TV. Could raising it up above the TV help with this? One of my roommates is moving out and I'm hoping to move this all up into his bedroom for a home theater room. The room it's in now is a rectangular living room that's got quite a few odd places (kitchen, hallway, low ceiling in half, raised ceiling in half) that aren't great for acoustics, and it's facing sideways in the raised ceiling portion.
BTW, the rest of my system consists of MTM's for the surrounds (used to be my mains, that's why they're MTMs instead of just MTs) with 7" Vifa MG's in 1 cube for both tuned to 50 hz or so and 1" Peerless soft domes. For the sub stage I have two 12" Crossfire BMF's left over from an old car install in 5 cubes tuned to 24 hz and a 500 watt plate amp from PE. the subs definitely suffer from the acoustics because if you sit in line with them you can barely hear them, just feel it, but go off-axis or down the hallway and it's insane.
Anyways, my problem is mostly with hearing talking in movies. I use the Dolby Digital processing on my receiver (It's a pioneer something or other, like two years old) for movies, and sometimes it's just hard to hear the voices, but every other sound is fine/great. Everything else comes in great, music sounds terrific on them (though usually I use other processing for that, like Advanced Music). Some TV stations will sound ok, some have the same voice problem. Is this normal for dolby processing, or should I change up my center channel to something that has better midrange (like MTM with 5's and a tweet, for example)?
One thing that may be a problem now is that the center channel is a tad below eye level when sitting due to it's box being so heavy that I can't sit it on the TV and haven't gotten a wall-mount TV stand for it yet. It's below the TV. Could raising it up above the TV help with this? One of my roommates is moving out and I'm hoping to move this all up into his bedroom for a home theater room. The room it's in now is a rectangular living room that's got quite a few odd places (kitchen, hallway, low ceiling in half, raised ceiling in half) that aren't great for acoustics, and it's facing sideways in the raised ceiling portion.
BTW, the rest of my system consists of MTM's for the surrounds (used to be my mains, that's why they're MTMs instead of just MTs) with 7" Vifa MG's in 1 cube for both tuned to 50 hz or so and 1" Peerless soft domes. For the sub stage I have two 12" Crossfire BMF's left over from an old car install in 5 cubes tuned to 24 hz and a 500 watt plate amp from PE. the subs definitely suffer from the acoustics because if you sit in line with them you can barely hear them, just feel it, but go off-axis or down the hallway and it's insane.