NRBQLou - "regret" is strong and to that exact question I would say "no", I don't regret buying a 990 what now seems like many years ago,... but I have to admit I have been having similar thoughts lately as you expressed in your first post above. The gap in time or features between receivers and processors seems to have widened. I too have considered jumping to a receiver as a processor because it seems tough to find good processor choices right now, even adjusting for a time lag. I can't bring myself to do that (and if anything 'will cave to a couple-year old proc before a receiver), but I'll second your point in that in seems like a low point for us right now.