Well so far I am extremely impressed with the BT2500. It's super quiet, fast at loading BD's, offers a killer picture (especially through the AVP's Realta), and is beautifully built. And very soon the -5 LFE issue will be corrected. I contacted Denon tech support and I was told that they are aware of the issue and will have a patch to fix it in about two weeks.
So once that's corrected I'll be good to go with LPCM.
I'm happy.
Seth