What makes the surround levels hard though is if you lower them so they aren't too loud at low volumes, at higher volumes they won't be loud enough... I tried that as well and I always thought I was fiddling with channel levels and not worth the hassle.Agreed, though as someone mentioned, it doesn't seem to be as bad lately, may be one of the FW updates changed something or it could just be getting used to it. Regardless, I have been experimenting with lowering the surround channels using the trims and I like it better simply by lowering the levels by 1 to 2 dB. I tried more and didn't like it as much. It should be fixable via FW but I guess D+M won't do it unless enough people complain about it.
By the way, you have the Trinnov Atitude right, does it has a similar feature?
No I don't have a Tinnov, I have a storm MK2. It does not have loudness compensation. But it does have excellent tone controls via their remote app to raise/lower bass and/or sub levels. So at low volume I bump up the bass 2 or 3 clicks until it sounds good. My preference would be to have variable loudness control but at least there are very good tone controls to adjust when needed. My understanding is Trinnov does not have tone controls, or loudness compensation. Of course with both processors, you could set up presets for low volume listening but I haven't bothered to do that yet. I can't understand why any processor would not have tone controls to help with poor recordings etc...