Not ideal, but as long as you leave the Sony alone after you get it set up, I don't see the problem.

i see no problem either..yet. jst read my horror story. it really happened. the young lady was a audio technician for a local theatre here in hotlanta. the problem was they had bought some b-s- speakers and they had no bass and the sound was thin and if they turned up the sony rcvr. the spkrs rumbled or something like that. she had already made her mind up that a equalizer would solve the problem. i don't believe in band-aiding a problem...if there is a viable alternative. believe me, i've pulled wiring out of blown up hotels in bosnia and kuwait to make longer jumpers for generators...but i don't recommend it. i had ta get us on the air, RME doesn't, he just needs his tunes. i recommend leaving the 950 alone for now...till a proper multi-amp is available and using the rcvr. you cannot get surround by input things into a 950 and outputting the 950 to a stereo rcvr. if the rcvr is surround then jst use it. the sound will not be better by going from the 950 to another reciever.
gotta go..IT man is here and my puter has a cold. be rat back

The receiver is Dolby Digital surround, I just wanted to get Pro-Logic 2 decoding and dts... but my Pioneer DV45A player handles dts from any disc just fine, so it was mostly the PL2 and dts:neo I was looking for. So I'll either save my pennies and get both at once, or maybe get lucky and get at least half of the combo as a birthday present, and then I can easily get the other half myself...

For the record, I'm hoping I don't end up in Kuwait anytime soon, in case you hadn't figured out the RME thing = Army...

wow, they keep making up all those alphabet things, still, huh? i was in the air force, '69 - '71. great time but i didn't do 'nam, either. worked for the brass for 2 years in japan...an army base, Camp Zama. it was known as the little pentagon cause it was the hq for vietnam silly talk. r n r base, too. there was a tiny group o us that ran round to all the different military command posts and kept up the crypto gear and the microwave systems and all kinds a wierd sheet. also had a 'gut wound' hospital there i stayed in for a few days. when the movie 'mash' came out...we watched it from a theatre with helicopters flying over head with bodies strapped to em going to the gut ward in sagami ono. boy you brought memories! anyway, don't worry bought kuwait...look we got half a million guys n girls surrounding iraq with more heavy metal than you can shake a snake with. we're surrounding a country that has a few hundred thousand soldiers...some of em are even still able bodied...they don't even have many bullets. heck, 12 yrs. ago i was in kuwait with...some of your guys...and a few who shall remain nameless.it was like that then...daddy needs a new oil wheel tho.
to fair, i am on our side and as a past 'soldier' i know ya gotta do whut ya gotta do. still, come on folks. u should go to india or pakistan...our next big mess...oh, don't forget N korea.
good luck no matter what they do with ya. keep yer head down low...their riding shetland ponies! i could say more but i'm sure i'm gonna get jumped on some of this. heck, no ones asked me about palestine yet. now there's a mess...what you see and hear, here, is soooooo far from the truth.
gotta go for now