[PeterMusic]

Thanks, bscott. Glad to see you're happy. With respect to gain though, as your post implies,--when you look to shake the walls, you aren't really looking for an audiophile setting. (I do not mean that to be pejorative.) Even with my humble 805s, the difference of adding a subwoofer is subtle--more a feeling than a sound. To your much more awesome 802s, I would expect the difference to be less.

I am at -3db. (Interestingly, and similar to your experience and miner's, this is most of the way up the curve for 805s, which goes from -30db to +5) If I went to -1, I'd have very obvious distortion; if I went above zero, it would be unpleasant.