The order is in now the waiting begins, I'm not a good at waiting. It really surprised me that all of the new high tech receivers and even some of the newer preamps still don't offer bass management for the 5.1/7.1 inputs. Since the OSD through component outputs has become somewhat of a nonissue one of the deciding issues came down to being able to play DVDA and SACD discs with bass management. Funny how people rip the 950 as being outdated but yet newer products fail to offer this.