Yeah, in my room the MCACC settings seem to suck the life out of my music. I play music in "pure direct" mode.

I haven't had time to understand MCACC but for movies I ran MCACC in full auto, then went in manually and flattened the EQ settings. This left just the delays, standing wave and reverb settings. Seems to be OK for surround sound in movies.

Axiom M80s + QS8s + VP180 <-- Pioneer VSX-1120-K <-- Squeezebox Touch / XBox360 / Oppo BDP-93