The AVS recommendations are for the typical receiver, and since the typical receiver has no bass management for the multichannel analog input the standard advise is to set speakers to small so the BDP-83 provides bass management. The Model 950's analog bass management is very unusual. It is going to be better to use its bass management, which means disabling the BDP-83's bass management. You may want to take a look at the Model 950 link under my Outlaw/BDP-83 Setup Guides .