I am just setting up my room and I need equalization (in addition to room treatment) to make it work. I just purchased two Behringer DEQ2496 Ultra Curve Pro equalizers. XLR cables will connect from the left, right, center and sub XLR outputs of the 990, through the equalizers and to the amp. I have two concerns:

1. The equalizers will be in the path AFTER the volume control. If I have to use analog (and by doing this equalizer connection I am doing an analog to digital to analog conversion), I would rather be doing this at line level. I think there would be less noise it the equalizer operated at line level. In the old days, with my stereo receiver, I would hook an equalizer to the pre-out and amp-in jacks. I have no way to get the analog outputs at line level unless I crank the volume up on the 990 and then add another box to act as a master volume control for all channels. Ideas anyone?

2. Wouldn't it be much better to have a digital pre-out/amp-in setup? If I could but a 7.1 toslink equalizer, and the 990 had such an connection path, that would be great. I don't think equalization of the surrounds is critical, so 4 channels would be enough. However, I would need electronics that could separate the appropriate digital channels, feed them as digital inputs to the equalizers and then recombine them to send them back to the 990 to apply volume control and send the analog to the amp.

I am going a little crazy trying to make equalization work.