"But, the other benefit with calibration discs is that they use narrower band test tones for the audio tests. In general, the tone generators built into receivers are wideband, which can produce erroneous readings because the tones extend into the bass range. This means that the room effects can heavily influence the readings."

I thought about mentioning that too, Wooch, but after the wrestling match Kex and I had over the whole "Quality"..."Value" thing in the other thread, I wasn't sure he was ready to hear anything I had to say ;-) Hehehe

For what it's worth, Kex, I agree completely with Wooch about the audio calibrations too. I know when I got around to calibrating speaker levels with the AVIA disc (as compared to the tone generator) I found my center channel speaker needed to be boosted by 3 db and the surrounds by nearly as much. This made a huge difference in overall balance and sound quality; particularly for dialog intelligibilty.

I find the navigation menu's on the AVIA disc aggrevating enough to deal with, so if DVE is generally considered to be worse in that regard, I'd probably be thoroughly pissed by the time I was done with a calibration. Just something to think about, but you could be better with that stuff than I am so it might not be a deal breaker for you.

Q