[bradbrad]

Hi everybody,

Thanks for the questions you've helped answer that I've asked recently. 

I just finished up a pair of AV-3's, AV-0's, and an AV3-S.  The bass response I'm getting out of the AV-3's seems lacking compared to even the AV-0's, and I'm not quite sure why.  I'm using an Onkyo TX-SR500 receiver to drive these guys. I found that if I increase the "bass" setting on the receiver the bass response will jump up to where it belongs, but obviously the overall frequency response is thrown out of balance when I do this. 

Everything about these guys sounds really good, except for this.  I suspect that my receiver lacks what it needs to properly drive these guys, but I'm not sure. 

Is this receiver just not enough for these AV-3s?

thanks again for your time!


By the way, I agree with the previous poster who thought that the AV-0's are just too great for rear channel duty.  I used those in the front as well for a few hours, and they completely blew me away, and my room is about 20x15x17 high.  Those little things are great.

[Cacophonix]

Sounds like all it needs is breakin time.

When i had the AV/3, bass was -never- lacking, and on the contrary, it would be the first thing you'd notice about it.

Just play some FM, and let the woofers break in. Same goes for the tweeters.

[Danny Richie]

If you have no bass right off the bat then you wired one of the woofers out of phase. Re-check your wiring.

[bradbrad]

Thanks - I figured out what was going on.  My receiver was set to send 80Hz and below to the subwoofer, which I had turned off.  So - I told the receiver to only send the LFE channel to the subwoofer, which means that I won't have to adjust the sub setting or turn off the sub when I want to use only the AV-3s to listed to music.

I did listed to both midranges on each speaker and they both sound in-phase. 

thanks for the suggestions. 

I was starting to wonder what all the fuss was about these speakers...