Adjust speakers for HT

[rayh78]

Which settings should I use to setup speakers?
Bought a new Samsung 3D Led TV with a bluray player. Sort of wanted everything to match and use Samsungs anynet+ features. And know receiver is not but so great compared to a Yamaha.
But bought a Samsung c500 receiver to replace a old Yamaha non HDMI receiver.

Also have 4 Polk rm2300 satellite speakers, Polk rm2600 center channel & Polk pw350 sub.
I have 2 choices on how to setup speakers. Not sure if I understand all of this.
Will not use the HT receiver much but I have too much invested not to at least have it setup right.

1. I do have a old radio shack sound meter. So I sit in the listening position in the room with the sound meter. I set all the Polk speaker except the sub to size small.
I manually run a tone test on the receiver and adjust All speaker including center and sub so that they all read the same volume.

2. The Samsung came with a sort of microphone that you plug into the front of it and it is suppose to do all this for you, in automatic tone test mode. And reviews were pretty good that this feature worked well.

But during the Auto tone test setup, I noticed that it set the size of the front speakers and center channel to small. The rears it set to large. Concerned because the front and rears are the same model speaker. Also when it did its own auto tone test some speakers seemed louder than others and the sub was not as loud. Are they suppose to be the same?

It did sound good when I played a DVD. Should I just leave it alone?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[aboroth00]

Set all speakers to small. Typically you'd want to set the speakers with your source. Most people have an Avia disc which will play tones and you'd set it to a reference volume. if you do not have this you can set it via your receiver. Play a tone in one speaker (center) to 75db and then try to match that level in the rest of the speakers.

Sure the auto test is nice, it's not 100% accurate. I would double check with your meter just to be sure. The distance settings should be checked as well.

Then all there is to do is ENJOY!

[rayh78]

Set all speakers to small. Typically you'd want to set the speakers with your source. Most people have an Avia disc which will play tones and you'd set it to a reference volume. if you do not have this you can set it via your receiver. Play a tone in one speaker (center) to 75db and then try to match that level in the rest of the speakers.

Sure the auto test is nice, it's not 100% accurate. I would double check with your meter just to be sure. The distance settings should be checked as well.

Then all there is to do is ENJOY!

Is the sub set to the same volume also