Truth be known, that is the way I always used to set it up. With 2 little ones in the house, I was always afraid to have the amps all the way up for fear of having one of them accidentally turn it WAY up and blow something.

Enter the other day...I noticed that bypass was much louder than going through the dsp. I realized that the channel trims are dsp, and that by setting all trims to zero I could switch between any source, analog, digital, or bypass, and have the same volume (with exception to the recorded level of the source, for example, a loud commercial vs the actual tv show). Now I set all trims to zero, adjust the pots on the back of the amp and the subwoofer for trim control, and leave it at that.