Hi Gonk, thank you for the timely feedback! always appreciated...Well I finally figured it out; perhaps by accident?? Apparently and for whatever reason, the Denon 2900 kept defaulting the Center, Rear, and Sub, to "disabled." I found in the manual for the Denon there is actually a way to "re-set" the Denon to its original factory settings; which I did and it appears problem solved.

I then proceeded to configure the speaker set up with the on screen menu for Denon and to my amazement the SACD worked!!!! Unreal Sound!!!

I bet you guys knew this little trick all along but wanted me to go through the pain of figuring it out...LOL......I guess the old adage "we learn from our mistakes!" Thanks a bunch! Great learning experience....