Originally posted by Pythagore:
My other concern is the volume level. I need to put the volume level to -10dB in order to have my usual listening dB, which doesn't leave me much if I want to crank the volume up when I have friends over or if I want to listen to concert level. (I do have space and no neighbor to bother, so I usually listen to music at moderate level).
This is the part I am having a hard time understanding. If you have an SPL meter set the volume on the 990 to -10 and then run through the channel configuration and use the pink noise to dial each speaker to 75 db. This way you should have plenty of headroom since the 990 goes to +10.