Hello all...Everything sounds wonderful, but I do hope someone out there can help with a couple of minor problems:
1. I have a 6.1 speaker setup, and I have tried to setup the rear surround speaker in the OSD setup menu. Sometimes the program will allow me to set the speaker to small, but I am never able to set a x-over for that speaker, even in DTS ES mode, or Dolby ex.

2. I purchased Riding with the King audio DVD. Sounds great, except the 525 auto defalts to Logic7, instead of DTS or Dolby. I have to manually change to DTS. I do not have any audio input set to Logic7.

3. While I can hear sound from the rear speaker the lights on the front of the 525 only show 5.1 config. or L&R main, even in Logic7 and the DTS and Dolby modes that should be 6.1???

The owners manual is not very helpful, and the website might as well not exist. Tech support...

As always thankyou in advance for your expert help

Hi,

I think you're better off getting advice from a place like hometheaterforum.com, but I'll take a stab at this:

1. I would guess it's just sharing the setting with the regular surround channels. Are you sure you enabled the surround back properly?

2. Logic 7 only runs on a stereo signal through the 525, so that probably means your DVD was playing a stereo track by default. The 525 does let you save default processing modes per input, but I don't know if it stores proccessing modes for both stereo AND surround contingencies on the same input. You probably want to just find the 5.1 channel track on the disc, if it has one.

3. This probably indicates the # of channels in the source material. DPLII and Logic7, in that case, would both show just two speakers. Very few DVDs have DTS ES or DD EX with the sixth channel in there; in those cases, though, you should see the indicator light appear.

-Cooper

Thank you for your help...I think I have solved the problem. I have just recieved my MX-500 remote, so I will be busy for the next little while

Sweet! I have the MX-500 as well and have been very happy with it. I just got the AVR-525 as well last week, did you figure out the answer to your question? Id like to know as well