Well my room is so small that the thick carpet and various furniture act as a combined dampener. My system doesn't sound as "alive" as it did in my last apartment (and as alive as my parents' system does in their room). My parents have hard floors, but there is a large rug in the room, as well...
All I can say is, to quote The Continental (SNL character played by Chris Walken): "Wowie, wow, wow!" The 1014TX is one heckuva receiver (value and performance)! At my apartment I run an NAD T763 to MB Quart Speakers (QLS1030s + matching center, 12" Energy eXL sub, eXL-16 rears) and...
Ray, see Yohan's response. I too forgot about setting your DVD player to output in DTS until I just got my new bedroom DVD player. I too had the same problem [different receiver] and was wondering what the hell was going on. Then I went into the DVD player's audio output menu and it had DTS...