BasX A-5175 volume question

[deepfriedgreens]

Pardon my newness to the world of Emotiva, but I am absorbing as much info as I can manage. I recently added a Basx A-5175 to run 5 channels out of my Yamaha TSR 7810 receiver. My fronts are Klipsch RP600Ms and a Polk center channel and Polks for the surround rear. I will slowly be upgrading my speakers.

I run my Yamaha in straight mode which disables most of the processing and find that I have to turn the volume to around 22db to get what I would consider decent volume. Frankly, I am not seeing much of a difference than before I added the Emotiva. Any suggestions, or is this normal? Maybe I was expecting the room to shake at a lower volume.

Thanks.

[gus4emo]

Do volume calibration....

[creimes]

Some receivers have a lower voltage output on their pre-outs, and in the end it doesn't matter how much you need to turn it up as long as the amplifier has more headroom with less chance of distortion.

Chad

[novisnick]

Jul 7, 2020 21:00:12 GMT -5 deepfriedgreens said:

Pardon my newness to the world of Emotiva, but I am absorbing as much info as I can manage. I recently added a Basx A-5175 to run 5 channels out of my Yamaha TSR 7810 receiver. My fronts are Klipsch RP600Ms and a Polk center channel and Polks for the surround rear. I will slowly be upgrading my speakers.

I run my Yamaha in straight mode which disables most of the processing and find that I have to turn the volume to around 22db to get what I would consider decent volume. Frankly, I am not seeing much of a difference than before I added the Emotiva. Any suggestions, or is this normal? Maybe I was expecting the room to shake at a lower volume.

Thanks.

Welcome to the Lounge! Always a pleasure to meet a new enthusiast to our ranks. I’ve found that the numbers listed on any pre-pro or AVR have nothing to do with anything. It’s just a relative reference to itself. IE; 12db on a Yamaha TAR 7810 have no correlation to my Yamaha RX-A3020. It’s just a reference for each user to have some sort of reference. My RMC-1 at 50 dB is almost audible and at 9db its extremely loud. So, at a glance I can see what “volume” my unit is at. That’s all the number represents. It too me forever to get used to it but that’s all it is, a reference.
Once again, great to have you hanging out here.

Many of us start our journey into HT by adding an external amp, it seems to prolong the life of the AVR and allows one to let the AVR power some channels and the external amp to drive others. Less work per amp.

[davidl81]

Jul 7, 2020 21:00:12 GMT -5 deepfriedgreens said:

Pardon my newness to the world of Emotiva, but I am absorbing as much info as I can manage. I recently added a Basx A-5175 to run 5 channels out of my Yamaha TSR 7810 receiver. My fronts are Klipsch RP600Ms and a Polk center channel and Polks for the surround rear. I will slowly be upgrading my speakers.

I run my Yamaha in straight mode which disables most of the processing and find that I have to turn the volume to around 22db to get what I would consider decent volume. Frankly, I am not seeing much of a difference than before I added the Emotiva. Any suggestions, or is this normal? Maybe I was expecting the room to shake at a lower volume.

Thanks.

Got the most part your amp won’t be any “louder” than your AVR was at the same dB level.  What the amp will do is play cleaner as you go higher in volume.