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pioneer 1015tx reciever

by SLLPC Nov 2, 2006 8:14AM PST

I must of done something wrong....

all of a sudden, my Pioneer 1015 reciever is hardly pushing any bass to my Sony 12" sub... Granted, its not the best sub, but in the past I have had it turned down half way because it was so loud.

Now, I have the sub eq turned all the way, and the volume on the sub all the way up, and it barely rattles anything.

I know the cord is ok - i have tested a couple of them..

WHen I have a cord pluged into the sub, when i touch the other end to my finger, it makes a very loud bass note. So I know the sub is working...

And when I go into the menu of the reciever, you can adjust the EQ on sub, and itis VERY loud... Rattles my whole house... But when I push anything through it (tv, dvd, cd, anything), the bass is barely there.

Does anyone know of a setting or what to check for in the menu of the reciever?

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MABEY THIS WILL HELP

by stewart norrie Nov 4, 2006 6:42AM PST

try setting speaker size to large, Also go into the amp menu and do a test tone for each speaker you should be able to adjust the volume for the sub please post back if this helps or tell us what the problem was all this information really helps us all steweeeeeeeeee

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Presuming...

by RoadRunner6 Nov 4, 2006 11:41AM PST

...that this is a powered Sony sub, the receiver doesn't push bass to the sub, it simply sends a line level signal at a given trim level (which might have been EQ'd in the receiver) and the amp in the sub does all the pushing or amplifying.

You might have changed the sub set-up settings in the receiver by accident. Go back and make sure that you have the sub versus speakers settings correct.

You don't indicate what your other speakers are but unless they are very small (higher crossover setting in this case) you probably should have them all set to ''small'' and the sub crossover setting in the receiver to 80Hz and the receiver set to send ALL low bass below 80Hz and ALL LFE signals to the sub and not to any of the speakers.

Precise models numbers on the speakers sure help.

RR6

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