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Hi All, I have a few questions to ask.

1. Could anyone tell me what would be the proper setup for the 500 that will be used with a Yamaha RX V2600.
I must have set the sub about three different ways and always sounds low.

2.Does anyone know how to delete the auto setup settings from the yamaha rx v2600 and mem. setings?

3. one last thing every once in awhile I here poping coming from the sub, what would cause this?

Are talking about volume? How did you calibrate the sound level of the subwoofer? What are you using to test your subwoofer volume(DVD, music).

How do you have the subwoofer setup right now?

I have my subwoofer volume at about 6 o'clock, and the volume is plenty loud.

Vol. seems to low.

I first set the vol. to 9 o'clock for setup I then set the crossover to bypass then trim at flat.

Sound was from auto setup from my receiver, Yamaha RX V2600.

What should my settings be set at?

There may be another issue here. Possibly a simpler one? Is the sub connected to your receivers LFE/Sub out via an RCA connection, to the Sub's Line IN?

Verify the settings in the receiver show the Sub is present/connected so that it will send a signal out to it.

Is the light on the back of the EP500 green?

Can you run the yamaha receiver's test tone that goes from speaker to speaker, and verify you do hear the sub working.

Just checking some basics, as 6-7 o'clock is plenty loud for most of us with the EP500.

If you are sure you are getting signal out of your sub, but it just seems a little "low" then turn it up to your liking. Everyone is different. Sorry I don't have experience with the Yammy 2600 to give you more detail.

My settings on the sub:
Trim set to flat
Crossover set to bypass
Volume set to about 8 o'clock position
Phase 0

Receiver settings:
All speakers set to small
Crossover set to 80hz
Sub level -2dB

My guess is you don't have your receiver set right. Can you describe how you have your receiver settings, for ex., speakers (small/large), crossover setting, dB level for the sub. The Auto Setup should do a pretty good job, I assume you placed the mic in the primary listening position about ear level.

There should be a User Preset option to reset the receiver back to the factory defaults, look at page 101 in the manual, however, I don't think this will reset the autosetup settings. Each time you rerun the autosetup should clear out the previous settings.

You need to describe the popping sound to us more, are you using sub coaxial to hook to the receiver?

Have you tried movies with lots of LFE, or are you trying music? Please provide more information.

Randy

Hi,

I have the same speakers as you do, a Yamaha receiver RX V 2600.

Here are some of the settings that I found on the receiver;
Speaker Levels.
Sub -3.5
Front L +4
Front R +3.5
Center +.5
SL +2
SR +4
PL +2
PR +3

Speaker size;

Surronds - small
Center - small
Front - large

Base crossover is at 160HZ.

On the sub itself here are the settings;

Vol. where max is at 2 o'clock and min. is at 4 o'clock. I have this set at 8 o'clock (260 degrees).

Phase = 0
Crossover is at BYPASS
Trim is at FLAT.

As I said before at times I would here a poping sound (perhaps the vol. is set to high)?

What should the settings be set at?

Thanks,

John

One other thig I forgot to mention before is when I do reset the receiver the sub vol. levels do increase and if I do increase the vol. on the receiver sometimes I would here the poping sound from the sub.

Question, Is the auto setup mostly for video sound levels?

I really cant here the sub output from audio signals but the sub output has deep lows for video and are at good vol. levels.

One last question, how does the cross over levels settings work?

John

Two things I see that need to be changed are.

1) Set the mains to small also.

2) Set the crossover in the receiver to 80hz.

I have made the changes, is there any other changes that need to be maid?

As Wid mentioned, you have your receiver crossover set way to high, try 80hz on the receiver and leave the sub on bypass. I would also set your mains to small on the receiver.

On the volume knob on the sub, there are 4 white marks. There is one at the 9 o'clock position, I keep mine around the one just below that, which is about the 8 o'clock position. Sound like that is where you have yours, which makes sense since your receiver setting for the sub is at -3.5dB. I think mine is about -2dB, but I have a Denon so things will be a little different.

The popping sound confuses me, not sure what that was, the only thing I can think of is that you had the receiver set to 160hz, so you were sending signals to the sub higher than its frequency rating of 100hz. I don't think you can play the 500 to loud, it will play louder than a orchestra in carnegie hall.

Another thing is if you find the Center channel being to quiet during movies, you might want to bump that up a bit, I have mine a few dB's louder than my left/right speakers so I can hear the movie dialog better.