You do know you can set the remote manager volume option to control your amp so you don't need to press Aux, then Sat each time?Aquestion on your voilume control problem. When you try to control the sound lever through your AVR, are you pressing the white aux button first? That's the way my system works. I press the AUX button, change the sound level then press the SAT button again.( a big box appears on the screen prompting me to do so.