Thank you...thank you. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress... 8-)
Which level controls are you talking about? The individual speaker levels on the surround calibration menus? If so, I'd say that having those levels be persistent across power cycling is a "feature" not a "bug." Otherwise, you'd have to recalibrate the levels every time you power cycled the unit.
I haven't felt the need to fiddle with the levels after initial setup other than a couple of tweaks to the "2 channel offset" setting. Since I've got 2 LFM-1's, it took a bit of trial and error to get movie bass/LFE to acceptable levels without blowing you away when listening to 2-channel sources.
Cheers,
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