PodBoy,

"The 990 does appear to have extensive bass management capabilities per each of the FOUR speaker groups."

All you can do for a speaker group is set the size and crossover. That's not extensive unless I'm missing something. The other receiver that I have is a Sony 4ES. Your right, it did not do automated setup, but that was not too difficult to do.

Also, just to add to my list:

5) Manipulating Lipsync works a bit poorly and really should be fixed to work with less button pushes. Right now you have to do the following:

Sync-> up or down for delay time-> select (to hear the results.

What I think it should be is as it is in the input config:

Sync-> up or down for the delay time and you hear the results.

6) There is no Hi Crossover setting that you can adjust for the Subwoofer. I will have to use the one on the Sub unless there is a hard coded high limit in the 990, but the manual has no mention.

Question: With the 990 (Sub set to LFE), when you set the crossover for a front speaker to say 80Hz, what does it do with the signal below that level, send it to the sub? The Sony did, but this does not mention that either. If it does, then what does L/R + LFE do?