Interesting approach, gonk - thanks. I heard some things when setting up the fronts as 'small' that I didn't like, so I assumed that filtering out more of the bass would only make things worse.

Your point about setting the crossovers high when setting up the SMS-1 is well taken, and spot on. I ended up setting them all at 200Hz when running the '321' test and initial manual EQing, and then tweaking further with everything playing as described above.

I'll give this method another shot.

Do you happen to know what "as dictated by crossover" means for the subwoofer signal if the fronts are set as Large? ie: does the Front speaker crossover setting control the low pass frequency for the sub in this case? ie: Digital Input, Fronts "Large", Sub "LR+Sub", matrix says "Front: Full Range; Sub: As dictated by crossover".

Thanks!

- Jason