darth,

What I meant by multiple channel setting on the BA is: You can save 2 different presets of all channel levels (L/C/R/SR/SBR/SBL/SL/SW) and call them as a preset. You can also adjust the levels on the fly very easily and in effect, this gives you a third set of channel levels.

That was one thing I didn't like about the 990. If you adjust a channel on the fly, it saves the value even when the unit is turned off/on. The BA makes it easy to go back to your orignal settings by calling one of two saved presets.

The BA still only has global speaker set-up (crossovers, sub out). It does give more adjustment as you can set multiple sub channel levels for different types of decoding schemes.