Tekdredger hit the nail on the head as far as matching amp to speaker and blending the different channels together. I was surprised to hear that a Dolby Digital receiver like the RX-V995 lacked channel calibration capability, so I grabbed the manual from Yamaha's site and skimmed through it. There actually is a way to adjust the channels, but it looks a little bit more complicated than I'm used to. Check out pages 32 through 34 of the manual (also available online ) for the exact procedure. That should allow you to get all five channels balanced properly even with outboard amplification for the mains.

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