I've owned this receiver for over 2 years, and have read the manual cover-to-cover many times, but apparently never figured out that you can alter the speaker calibrations in any mode including the multi-channel in for SACD. Bingo! Re-calibrated everything again tonight, with the sub toned down to a more realistic level with the gains on the receiver set back to near normal (instead of like -10). Sounds even better now, and digital vs. SACD volume and balance is spot on. Thanks for that bit of advice about checking on the multi-calibration modes!!
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I don't have any advice, but I have read that when using bass management on a SACD player, the player may reduce the analog sub (SW) level by typicaly 5 dB, maybe 10 dB depending on the player.
This is so the summation of bass (The standard .1 LFE track and the redirected bass from all the other channels) doesn't overdrive the input on your receiver.
Some receivers let you apply sub level changes per listening mode, which may let you provide correction for this in your preferred SACD listening mode, and then not for movies in your Dolby or DTS modes.
