I guess we will see how revised the BM is in a few days.
Hope we can get to the 7.1 direct from the frount panel, and not have the machine revert to PL2 everytime it is fed a PCM signal to DD then back to PCM (in this case it ALWAYS goes to PL2)

Of course, the 990 sounds great, and really performs on the balanced outputs. Otherwise it would have gone back before the 30 days. But I really hope at least these issues are fixed. It just makes me feel a little like the 990 software feature set was not though out as well as the 970. And some things about my 950 I liked a lot (like being able to see the signal type and sample rate) that the 990 doesn't do.
I say this because it sounds like they didn't give us these things that I/we had hoped/asked for. At least it wasn't listed. Anyhow, some revisions are sure better than none
Thanks for the update, I do appriciate the efforts of all involved.