I recently bought this A/V Receiver (which is probably similar to the other STR-DE models with lower numbers). I'm generally pleased with it (though the remote sucks).

For anyone with experience with this or simiar Sony receives, I have two questions:

Mystery Power On: for reasons that are completely baffling to me, the receiver will switch on all by itself (while all other components --TV, VCR, DVD, CD) are off). Anyone experienced this?

Soundfields: Sony's multitude of soundfields are very poorly described in the manual. Can anyone give me a general overview of the "Cinema A,B,C..." and the "Virtual Enhanced A, B, C..." ? I'm just trying to figure out which modes I'd ever use with my 5+1 speaker set up. (The music modes, like "Church", "Arena", etc I understand).

Thanks!