Hey all,

Setting up my new 990 I've run into a problem with regard to speaker placement...

My first out of the box set up for the 990 3-days ago was a basic quickie auto-calibrated 5.1 set-up which yielded descent results considering that I didn't tweak anything. Since then, I've been struggling to set-up 7.1, but the results have been poor due to calibration and placement issues (see other post).

My original 5.1 set up has my rear speakers mounted high agains the rear wall of my room. One of my goals for the 990 was to add floor standing side speakers (Def. Tech BP-10s) to the sides of my listening area. They are wired and in place.

Now here's the rub...

Apparently the 990 assumes that the SL and SR speakers will be placed to the sides of the listening area and that the SBL & SBR channels are to the rear facing forwardas diagramed in the manual. My problem is my rear surrounds are in the position that the 990 assumes that the back speakers should be :rolleyes: The manual doesn't even diagram a 5.1 configuration which I think is especially lacking, but I will save those comments for another post.

Problems & Options:

With my current speaker arrangement, if I chose to play a 5.1 soundtrack, the rear info. goes to my floorstanders placed to the sides - no good

Moving my rears from the back wall to the sides is not an option since I have no where to mount them and I like them where they are.

Swap the SR/SL & SBR/SBL outputs from the 990? This would put the back channel info. to the BP10s at the sides of my couch, but I don't know how that would effect that would have on channel steering.

Suggestions wanted!