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Hi Anthony,

Correct for two-channel material. However, bear in mind that each DSP preset uses a speaker layout. As you've probably gathered from the configuration program, there are three layouts: Music, Logic and 5.1 Movie.

What *I* would do in your scenario is to define the Music layout as only containing your two (at present) EBA speakers. This layout will be used for any "Music" DSP preset which includes (for two channel sources) Music, Trifield, Ambisonics, Super Stereo, Music Logic, PLIIx Music, Stereo, and Direct, and (for multi-channel sources) Discrete, PLIIx Mus6, and THX Music. Doing this gives you the option of listening to down-mixed multi-channel music (or even 5.1 movie or TV material) via your EBA speakers.

See pages 28-33 from the latest 861 manual.

Having said all that, with just main L/R speakers in the Music layout, you are only really interested in Direct and Discrete. Obviously, you will also need to configure EBA=on for both of these presets.

Hope that makes sense.

Late edit: Using non-Music layout presets with EBA=off will allow you to use all of your speakers for two or multi-channel material, if desired.