No bass management. I have a Sony DVP-S9000ES, I use it as my main transport for CD & DVDs. I use coaxial digital in and the analog in for SACDs. That's it. I have been through all the obvious stuff as stated earlier and I am far from a newbie at this

I have tone set to 0, no other processing being done. All speakers set to small, crossed at 80hz. I have Monitor Audio Silver 7s as mains. I have had all my gear for many years so I am very familiar with how they sound and work. The only new piece is the Outlaw 990 and having to back down sub levels is new for me in 5.1. My old processor had the exact opposite problem, a 2channel sub offset would have been a nice feature then.

I do have 5.1 set to one of the video inputs and 2 channel upsample set to use the DVD input. I did this so I could easily go between inputs and not have to change the surround mode but I thought that since bass management is global, no worries right?