Richard,

Just to clarify on the Entech issue: The Entech was/is a very nice DAC. However, what I said was that I encouraged you switch back and forth between the two. You will find you probably prefer one over the other. DAC technology has come a long way in the last few years, and the upsampling chip in the 990 is very sophisticated. Of course, while I prefer the DAC set in the 990, your experience may not be the same...play around...enjoy!

gonk,

The way that control works is that you tap "SURR MODE" and then use the up/down arrows to select the surround mode. This works fine as long as you're not in headphone mode. For whatever reason, once you've gone into headphone mode, it won't let you pick anything using this method.

There is a setup menu under "Surround Config" where you choose the headphone mode (one of three Dolby Headphone modes, or stereo).

Interesting... How do the different Dolby Headphone modes sound so far?

Looks like the modes are all DPLII Movie + Dolby Headphone modes (when run from a stereo source, as I am right now), so I'm not really sure I can give much of a useful review since I just have music to listen to here.

I am curious to hear what it will sound like when run with some multichannel movie content.

Well, I'm also the proud owner of a large cardboard box - and mine even came with a 990 inside! I'm going to be visiting family some for dinner after work and I need to try to get a little more work done this evening on a floor plan or two, but I will be taking some time tonight to install it and get it at least roughly set up. It will probably be this weekend before I have any really definitive thoughts about it, but as with the 950 I'll be putting together a review on the 990 to summarize what I find.

I look foward to your review Gonk..

I still have not had the chance to purchase mine yet,......but I am sure that my time will come...

Ian

Could one of you folks measure the depth of your new 990? The manual says it’s 17.75 in. but does that include the volume knob & connectors? The 950 manual said it was 14.75 in, but that DIDN’T include volume knob & connectors. It actually measured more like 15.5 in. This is important because I have doors to close.

As others have asked why does it have to be so big?

Anyway I hope you lucky folks enjoy your new toy.

Actually tomorrow's the day.
Fedfex reports that my tracking # of a package weighing 39.0 pounds, whose reference starts with the designation "990: (gee I wonder....)

Anyway. HOT DOG!!!!
Tomorrow.
I wish I had ordered my center speakers sooner and had gotten further along with wiring.

Just because I was able to I put in not one but two separate 20 amp circuits to the location my eqpt will plug into. These are clean circuits. Nothing else on them. Ought to be good. Saw the suggestion on an outlaw forum/. Can't remember which.

Actually tomorrow's the day.
Fedfex reports that my tracking # of a package weighing 39.0 pounds, whose reference starts with the designation "990: (gee I wonder....)

Anyway. HOT DOG!!!!
Tomorrow.
I wish I had ordered my center speakers sooner and had gotten further along with wiring.

Just because I was able to I put in not one but two separate 20 amp circuits to the location my eqpt will plug into. These are clean circuits. Nothing else on them. Ought to be good. Saw the suggestion on an outlaw forum/. Can't remember which.

I'm heading to bed, and haven't had much chance to listen yet, but so far I'm extremely pleased. Very clean, absolutely quiet when appropriate, and upsampling the digital input looks like it may be my new default method of listening to CD's.

From back face to front face is 17.75". Add 0.5" for the volume control knob, so 18.25". The rear jacks would add about 1/8", but if you plug anything into them (which I assume you will for at least some of them), the real determining factor is how much room the plugs need. For me, I cut the whole back of the cabinet away, so the rear of the 990 can actually poke through until the rear feet catch on a thin strip of cabinet still remaining above the shelf. The door closes fine this way and it's easy (comparatively speaking) to get to the rear panel of the 990 for wiring.