This is sorta relative to the 990...sorta.

I was debating whether to get the 7125 or 7500 and use the receiver's preouts to drive it, or simply get the 990 in conjuction with one of the amps. Yesterday, I discovered that the preouts on the onkyo 702 may actually be nonfunctioning or malfunctioning. When the left and right preouts were connected to the aux in jacks of an older small boombox I could not get ANY sound from the boombox itself. The aux in jacks DO work as I tested them with a portable cd player. The issue may be that the spec for preout voltage from the receiver is listed at 1v. So the fault seems to lie in the preouts themselves. Has anybody ran across this situation before?

I know it is an odd post but any ideas are appreciated.

Of course I could just bite the bullet and get the outlaw combo...THAT should fix things nicely!