Hi gonk, yeah that makes sense< I haven't played with the sms1 much as it was christmas day and the wife was sick{flu is going around} but plan on really geting into it this week,used the auto eq and it set the 20 up to + 6 but I backed it down to +1 and 32 to -13 but brought that up to -12. I have two klipsch rw12's in a room thats 20x15 with a 13foot peak in the ceiling the subs are supposed to rated 21-120 plus or minus 3 db, but I don't want to cook em. sounds good with the auto eq but like i said am going to play with it this week, any cautions wuld be great.