I'm auditioning a Music Hall amplifier at home these days, as part of an upgrade to my 2.1 ch audio set up.

however, in the course of auditioning the MH, i came to notice that its remote can do random operations on my Toshiba CRT TV !!! and the Toshiba TV's remote can control the MH amp!
There's no logic to most of the buttons: for e.g.: the MH's vol up button does turn the vol up of the Tosh, but the vol down of the MH remote changes the channel on the Tosh, etc...same story the other way around. I think channel up button of tosh mutes the MH!

so if i want to turn the vol of the MH amp up while watching a dvd, the TV changes channel/input...this can get really maddening. (i don't want to turn the tv off everytime i have to push a button on the MH's remote and vice versa)

would a universal remote solve this? i don't see how, as they're the same codes, esp if i do the "learn" thing for the Harmony 659 remote I have (haven't done anything with it yet)...but if i use the normal codes (meaning programming the harmony with the online database) perhaps it will work? I guess I have to try it and see, huh?

In the mean time, does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks a lot.

I would think a universal remote would not fix this as is seems as if the components are sharing some codes as you point out.