Sushi, your information about the 912 would certainly disappoint someone who was considering it based on a presumed equalization ability. Without this it would be similar to the HK models which automatically set speaker levels, and I agree that this would be a relatively minor attraction. I assume that you got this from Tokyo and that the info would be more reliable than what was at least a misleading Pioneer press release which spoke of the MCACC success in the Elite series and strongly implied that the same abilities would be offered in the lower-cost models(although I did note that the release didn't specifically mention equalization). It's curious then what the two "manual" models offer, since all HT receivers have provisions for manually adjusting for speaker distance and levels.
