da-drifter, your really confusing me. The surrounds are for "surround" affects in movies. You need to calibrate your speakers to the same levels and leave them there, don't mess with turning the 80's to -12dB to compensate for the Q's. I don't think your understanding. Either use Audyssey and trust the results, make sure to make speakers to a "small" setting after running setup. Or, use and SPL meter and run the test tones in the receiver manually, setting everything to about 75dB's.
Are you cranking up music in 7-channel stereo mode or what with the Q's. You keep mentioning getting them up to the same levels, for what?
