Hi Red Orc,
I'm delighted you've got your system sounding great. And those volume levels you are setting are quite normal. For my own system with either M80s or M22s running with an EP500, I find I set my H/K receiver's volume display to a range of -30 dB to -15 dB.
Alan -30db to -15db is also the typical range for most sober applications with our H/K 635 but I find that with the cable HDTV stations the volume needs to be turned to just above 0 ... and whenever the system gets switched back over for DVDs or music I always get a blast of high volume for a few seconds because I forget to reduce the volume prior to switching from cable HDTV.
Happens every time.
