One of the real great features on the 1070 (970 based on reading) is the analog input, bypass mode with analog bass management. For the next generation of all Outlaw reciever/preamps, PLEASE keep this feature?

I also suggest no fixed crossover point and also, 5 or 10 hz steps!

Chiming in late here, but I would say mega dittos to Lizard King's request. I love my 970 in bypass mode with the 80Hz analog x-over. Please keep this on the successor to the 970!

If they keep the analog bass management (which I agree is a handy feature that I liked on my Model 950), it will almost certainly not be adjustable. The fixed 80Hz crossover is needed because anything else adds complexity very rapidly, and thus cost as well. The ICBM-1 offered adjustable analog bass management with 20Hz steps, and even in a 6.1 configuration (not the 7.1 that would be needed here) it sold for $250 when it was released five or six years ago. Cramming that sort of adjustment (especially in smaller steps) into a surround processor that will be HDMI-based to a great degree would be both expensive and foolish. Adding even $100 or $150 to the price tag for a feature that will see much less use due to the inevitable migration of sources to HDMI in place of multichannel analog would really hurt their competitiveness, and thus hurt sales as well.

I am sitting here with ants is my pants , waiting for the Fed Ex guy to deliver my used Anthen AVM-30 Pre/pro. I will be able to adjust the crosser steps in 10hx and maybe even 5hz steps!

The unit does not have the analog bass MGMT in bypas mode yet the Pro grade setup is supposed to be seemless and transparent.

More to come.