Mr D, Do you have an SPL meter? (did you calibrate?) When I went to separates...and not being born with the handbook, - the first two weeks my husband and I did the same, looked at each other and said…"it’s vastly underwheming, the old PL sounded better". Being my first time around the block setting up a system I don’t even know what all I changed. But one of ‘leaps’ to "Okay….something’s not wrong anymore, now it sounds like a system!. Was calibrating the speakers, incrediable the diffrence this can sometimes make.

Are your speakers a 4 ohm load? The 3300 is reputedly not a good match for 4 ohms. If your using the SPM’s with your CD playback try 5 channel stereo, a reviewer said skip the DSP modes on CD’s. And I believe it was commented that in certain modes it could be lacking in mids and base. (giving you that muffled effect although that usually I notice what I think of as (muffle) when my highs are out of whack. (pulled back). Lastly what DVD player are you using there was some issue with pioneer branded players as regards (?-something) in combination with this AVR. I’ll try to look up what review I read on it that mentioned these topics.


As far as the WAF factor, my best advice is to buy a learning remote, tell her your busy…give her the instructions and ask her to try and program just one thing. (Beg her too for you…she’ll have to read the instructions she’ll get one down, do the next one….one thing leads to another. You be surprised how wife’s can tend to ‘take over’ if they get just one of these things they never cared for under their belts. I was so shocked when I was the only one who could run our touchscreen remote (because I programmed it) that it led to bigger and better things. (WATCH OUT- its easy to create a monster)


[This message has been edited by Smart Little Lena (edited March 04, 2003).]