chas,
My father upgraded from the 1050 to the 990/7075 combo driving paradigm monitor 7 and LMF-1+ handling the low end.
Sounds really nice: on DVD, SACD, and using ITunes radio stream.

Pops is into 2-channel and some movies. Ratio 75/25.
System has been running since thansgiving. I heard it over Xmas for 5 day's. Family is into music/movies so we ran it thru all day events. Very nice setup.
The 7075 could be driven to loud levels and maintain width and not get compressed.

2-channel sounds impressive. i would give it 2 thumbs up.
The amp would be cool to bi-amp mid-smaller towers and/or book shelf speakers in a 5.1 system or 2-channel.