My center is down for maintenance, but everything else works as it should. I barely miss the center; the sub works as normal. If by the reference to MIPS, you mean there isn't enough horsepower to process without a center, thats clearly wrong. I drop into this forum once in a while, but less frequently now.
It seems the only folks posting are those who are looking for something to gripe about, and then usually are wrong anyway. My 950 is far and away the best value of any product I have had in years. I had a Kinergetics Chiro system before, which was Stereophool recommended. The 950 blows it away in the various processing modes, and for music is about its equal.
Mike