Lowering the crossover point.

[voice of the theater]

It still appears that your main use of these speakers is for video playback and I would have to EQ for that scene in a similar fashion as your EQ picture. Video sucks and you will probably never get it right, and when you are done, will have ruined the sound of your speakers for audio listening. With out true 5.1 surround sound, your are just chasing demons. Set your speakers for what they are designed for, stereo audio listening, and suffer through the sound affects and poor engineering of video.

I agree that video sound quality often times isn't up to snuff with a well recorded and mastered musical studio recording (vinyl/CD's), but I've found that many movies from this century actually have relatively good sound quality. So, VH, we may have to agree to disagree on this point. I do, however, agree with your main point "Set your speakers for what they are designed for, stereo audio listening...."

I have my Model 19's and Model 14's optimized for listening to music (CD's and Vinyl). I've got the dual crossover pots on the speakers etc. ( and I do (sparingly) use a graphic equalizer) dialed in to where (well recorded and mastered) music sounds phenomenal on them. With them setup this way, many "modern" Blue Ray movies/DVD's and even many stereo Satellite TV broadcasts (and digital cable broadcasts before I dumped Time Warner) sound great on them with no changes made to the dual crossover pots or equalizer settings. In fact, that's how I judge how good I consider the sound quality of a DVD or cable/satellite broadcast to be. If it sounds great on my stereo system in my customary/default EQ settings that I use to listen to music, then I consider that movie/tv broadcast to have "good" sound......

My wife and I watched the movie "Avatar" (the movie Cradeldorf uses in his clip in this thread) on satellite TV though the Model 19's with my customary/default (for music) EQ settings and it sounded very good--no mods to my EQ settings or dual crossover pots on the speakers were needed. I think they did a good job regarding the sound quality for that movie, even if they should have been sued by Roger Dean for mimicking his artwork/landscapes!


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