Okay, I appreciate all the feedback, definitely a lot of helpful tips and recommendations. After a long trial and error the ultimate decision was to return the receiver. Since the one I was returning was out of stock I stepped down to the Denon S750H. I’ve gotten everything hooked back up, calibrated and tweaked the best I could. No crackling in the bookshelf speaker which is very nice. Now I’m trying to figure out what the best sound option I should use for the setup. The multichannel seems to be a big no no so I need to find a setting that won’t be so demanding of the speakers. I’m also trying to figure out what to set my crossover for the bookshelves, floor standing, and center speaker. So for now I have them all set at 80HZ but while toying with it I put the floors over 150HZ and I thought they sounded great, but I’m sure that’s probably because they were being pushed too hard. Like I said before, I feel like I’m way over my head.