J.R.,

Not to dampen your listening preferences, but you did say you're listening to FM (radio) in surround mode, right?. In my opinion, you have to listen to music/movies the way it was originally recorded. For music, that's stereo only, using only the 2 front speakers. For Dolby Digital movies, then all the speakers are being used.

If you listen to music using surround modes, the imaging is somewhat distorted... Just my 2 cents.