Fiddlin' around last night on the 2805. Found a setting: "Ext. in Subwoofer level." It was set to +15db by default. Changing this to +5 took care of many of the things that I referred to originally. I now withdraw with tail betwixt legs.

"There's too many notes!" M22ti VP150 EP350 QS8 AVR-2805 SCD595 Panasonic DVD-S35