Wow - thanks so much for your time and your patience. I'm sure I will work my way through this, mostly because of your help. I just want to clarify a couple things:

Are you saying that I should tell the BD player that my speakers are 'large', sub 'on', center and surround rears 'off'. But I tell my 990 that my speakers are small, with sub 'on'? BTW - I have attempted the auto setup a number of times, but usually it ends with the 990 telling me that my fronts are set to small, but rears to large so it can't do it's thing (they are not set this way, of course). But generally while the setup is in progress I make note of the calibration parameters it wants to use for distance and db offset and apply them manually. For HDTV movies, I think I have things dialed in pretty well. Very happy with the sound. Better than I thought it would be.

I've tried all sorts of options for the setup. Seems that speakers set to 'large' sound the best. My latest experiment was to set the fronts to small with the 40hz xover, thinking this would get the most sound out of the LSi's and still route the low frequencies to the sub. I do know that with fronts set to 'large' and sub set to L/R + subwoofer, there is waaaaay more bass going on than I would ever want or need.

So, I played with the optical digital cable from the BD player yesterday. Maybe today I will remove it and go with just the analog interconnects. BTW - any reason not to use the analog setup for listening to CD music? Or do I need to use a digital source for that?

I did have the interconnect harness running close to the power cord for the 990. I'll try to get some separation between these and see if I can get rid of the hum.

Thanks again for all the help....

-c