I recently replaced my 950 with a 990 after the 950 died one sad morning. It served me well for a number of years and I've been enjoying the 990. I have one question about a difference I see between the 950 and 990. I have an external Musical Fidelity Dac that I used with my 950. I had the digital output of the 950 feed the Dac and the analog outs of the Dac fed the 950 CD inputs. If I wanted to listen to a CD or to my Apple Express I would set the 950 to CD and change the digital input to whatever source I wanted to listen to. This fed the digital signal to the Dac and I would select Bypass on the 950 which then used the analog inputs. This no longer works with the 990. If I use the menu to change the CD input to analog it doesn't pass the digital signal to the Dac and Bypass of course is still using the digital signal. Is there some way I can get back to using the external Dac by having the 990 route the digital signal and yet still listen to the analog inputs for the CD?