Gonk I tried all speakers to small and xovers to Front (60) Center and Surrounds (80) like you suggested and this time it left my Fronts and Center to small but says my Surrounds are Large. I talked to Steve briefly and he seemed to think it had to do with my Surrounds being so close to the ceiling. I just changed my Surrounds back to small and left it there. I'm really not that overly critical about my 5.1 system being perfectly matched as it sounds so much better than my old eight year old Chiro. If fact the way it's currently set up sounds pretty good to me.

On the other hand I'm probably more critical with how two channel music sounds. I do in fact have an outboard dac (MSB) for music that I am running analog into the 990. Now whether it is better or not than the 990's dac's I don't know since I haven't tried them yet for music.

I like the speaker settings at small for movies but might prefer running the Fronts large for music but it's not possible for the 990 to be set both ways is it?

When I'm experimenting changing the speaker settings and xovers do you have to run the Auto setup each time or are the volume settings of each channel already set (and if you are happy with them) you wouldn't have a need to mess with them anymore?

I also have a buzz in my front speakers (I assume is a ground loop) which I've had ever since I hooked up the Direct Tivo so this is nothing new. I was just hoping it might go away with a new preamp but I guess not. If you unplug both coax inputs that are running from the dish to the receiver the buzz goes away. Since you are not supposed to put anything inline between the dish and receiver do you know of any filters that might be specially designed that would allow you to do this?