Yes, off = none = I don't have any of these speakers hooked up.

So you have a 6.1 setup, rather than the normal 5.1 or 7.1? I think that's rather uncommon, can't speak for what the 976 will do there, but you'd need it to down mix the 2 rear surround channels to a single mono channel. I'm not sure it has any option for this. When you select rear surround it expects 2 speakers, so it makes sense that the auto config runs into issues here, one speaker is not connected.


Glad to hear you are on your way.