Healy6er wrote:

Looking at your systems do you have two 990 preamps or switch between the 7700 and 755 crown with the one?

I have two systems. I don't actually have a dedicated HT, however. In the living room there is a 990 feeding a 7700. This is where the TV Oppo etc are. Downstairs in my "office-studio room" or (whatever one would call it) which is where I transcribe my old 4 channel CROWN 15 ips tapes I have a 990 and 755. This room is not for TV or surround sound. I have 4 Crown electrostats...arranged in-line. This reproduces the imaging the way we recorded big bands etc on Crown tape machines, years ago.

I had been using Crown SL2 preamps, feeding 4 CROWN DC300A's of varying vintage. The amps fed the speakers bi-amped. I liked the sound so much from the 990-755 combo which had been in the living room that I kept the 755 and started to sell off the DC300A's. The 990 was an obious choice to replace the Crown preamps. All I can tell you is that having replaced with outlaw (even considering the [old] 755 the sound is soooooo much better now. I wrote about this awhile back. The change to outlaw from Crown breathed new life into those old (1970a) Crown electrostats.

I care more for the audio than TV or movies, so the change both upstairs and down was wonderful.
Hope this helps explain, and I'm sorry if there was confusion.