Receiver with subwoofer level buttons?


I have a Marantz SR8015 v2 receiver and the remote has like 40 buttons on it, 36 of them are NOT important to me and are never used. Is there a way to adjust the subwoofer level from the remote? THere’s no way I’m going into that clunky menu to adjust.

Why do I ask? I just went to JL Audio Fathom f113s and they don’t have remotes like SVS, but they do have a "Reference" mode that bypasses all controls on the sub allowing you to make adjustments from your receiver/preamp. Wouldn’t that make sense to put sub controls on the remote?

Manufacturers please take note: No one understands all those buttons on your remote. Everyone needs to make sub adjustments from the seating position. Please add level, phase, polarity, and freq cutoff buttons!

dtximages

I wouldn't say more remote buttons are always positive or user friendly.  The OP mentions he doesn't use 90% of them already.  Having more "places" to turn things up and down, change phase, crossover points etc also create blind alleys some folks travel down when operating and then get lost-they don't understand why the front end unit doesn't fix things like before because you bypassed that with the remote.  These HT processors/receivers/front ends are already incredibly complex.  The more buttons in more places definitely makes things more confusing for many, causing more tech support and more manual searching.  Especially older folks who don't see well! 

 

Brad

@lonemountain  My point was 90% of the buttons are useless for 99% of the people using these things.  Why not change some of these useless buttons to levels/phase/polarity/xover etc... Things we all should be using.

Most of us love tinkering for best effects.  Systems change and move and no one wants to do the stupid subwoofer crawl every time something moves a few inches.  Not to mention, once I have it dialed in, I always find myself second guessing later on. It's nice to make changes on the fly from my chair to hear the difference in this vs that etc.  

The Marantz SR8015 remote has 68 buttons!!!!  that includes a channel up/down button which almost nobody uses...ever..  Why not make that rocker switch a customizable level for the sub or center, or rear, or something useful.