The sound is great, the features fantastic, and you'll never be able to appreciate them, because the controls are impossible, and the manual worthless.Quick! Change the volume level of the center speaker. Just try. You'll have to push a button on the remote, after you push a button on the remote that isn't documented, then you'll be able to get to the control. The buttons for changing between 5.1 and 6.1 on the front panel, as well as the remote, are easy to find, for all you folks that swap out speaker systems daily. If you want to change balance, make a pot of coffee and a sandwich.