I have found; Ok, works for me anyway, that if I set up my receiver in a way that sounds "right" and get used to it for a while in "strero", then set my receiver to unmodified "direct" mode(where it really sounds "thin")and listen to it that way for a bit, that when I go back to "stereo" for the enhanced set-up, that it then sounds artificial, and I find that I can turn the EQ and tone controls back a bit toward neutral.

Eventually after going through this cycle a few times, I find a point where, for me anyway, the sound is pretty much what I'm listening for!