Hi all,
I have a 990/7125 combo. Sources are a Toshiba HD-A1 via digital coaxial and a Dish 811 reciever via optical. Speakers are all Swans Divas (5.1, C3, R3's). I have auto calibrated the unit 3 times, each time it works perfectly. I have to crank up both sources to about 0db to get what would be considered reference volumes. This is not blow you out of theater volume, just nice, loud, engaging volume. I have done a search for "volume" and only found 1 thread where front panel db's were discussed, seems most are in agreement in that thread that normal db's on the front panel run somewhere in the -20's for normal, to slightly above normal levels of volume.

The sound I'm getting is clean and free of noise, but some of the low mastered HD-DVD's from Warner require me to crank the volume up to the max setting and it still does not seem loud enough.

Any suggestions would be appreciated...