Will,
On one of your earlier posts, you mentioned that the 950 doesn't memorize settings when switching modes. Does this mean that when you switch from DVD to CD and then back to DVD for example, you have to reset your settings? Even the most entry level receivers have the ability to remember the previous settings.
Thank you,

[This message has been edited by minuteman (edited July 26, 2002).]

Which settings are you asking about? Some of the 950's settings are global (I'm thinking of volume in particular, as well as some others like the speaker settings and such). If you are talking about surround mode settings, though, the 950 does remember those for each input.

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Thank you Jim,
The surround modes were the ones I was worried about.

Yes it has individual surround mode settings but not individual volume or bass management settings. There is also a minor DPL 2 reset problem, where, if your player's default surround mode setting is, for example, DTS NEO, and then you play a Dolby Digital movie, the 950 switches to Dolby, as it should for the movie, but then it resets the default setting for your player to DPL 2, and you'll have to manually change the default back to DTS NEO if you want DTS NEO as your default. It's a minor thing. But it's a bug and could probably be fixed easily, if there's a 950 software upgrade in the future.


[This message has been edited by Will (edited July 26, 2002).]

Thanks Guys. That's fine for me. The minor glitch with the DPL2 could be annoying, but oh well.

Will or Gonk,
I was just thinking about this (again). You mean that when you change input modes, the 950 remembers whether it was set on all channel stereo, or DPL2 for instance, but does not remember the individual speakers level settings for that particular mode if each one happens to be set differently?
Thanks,

That's right. The speaker level settings are global as Gonk says. If you change the speaker levels while in any surround mode (like stereo or DPL2, for instance) with any input (like DVD or TV), you've automatically changed them for all surround modes.


[This message has been edited by Will (edited August 05, 2002).]

Yes, that's true. Basically, these settings (and others) are "global" and not per-input, even though they're very confusingly placed so as to appear so. It's not a bug, it's a dubious design decision.

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