I pulled the trigger and bought the 2900 last night. I had to rearrange the audio rack, and while I was at it swapped it w/ subwoffer to accomodate a new video cable someone gave me.

So 2 hours later...

Power on.
Walk through setup. With all of the complaints from long ago about 950/BM I left it off on analog inputs and let the 2900 handle it. There have been complaints on AVS about a lack of Bass, not the case in my setup. I had to back the bass down.

Problem:
Only audio from front 2 channels... grumble, grumble. I recheck connections, look at manuals, nothing. Now I run up and down the stairs (computer /internet upstairs) searching online for the problem on about the 8th trip (good exercise by the way) I remember in the back of my head something about the 950 having to be in a non 2-channel mode before swithing to analog in. Thanks to those of you who went before and figured that out.

Bottom line, I haven't even callibrated yet, and I'm very impressed. Audio superb. This is my first listen at multi-channel audio, but I'm hooked. By the way anybody got suggestions for media? I bought DSOTM, Dianna Krall, James Taylor, and Journey's Greatest hits (I swear it is 2 channel though unless I missed something).

I put in the Matrix for a few minutes to play with video. The player has some setting to increase blacks, (maybe the Matrix wasn't the best movie to test that with it is pretty much dark already).

So, this player is definately a keeper for me.