Had to go off a bit, thanks everyone so much!

Must be so dense I'm missing something on the back of these units. The 770 is a 7 channel amp right? And somewhere on something I've seen the the 8 outputs listed in the 770 stats. (7.1) makes sense to me there is a connection out for 7 speakers & one LFE.

But when I'm looking at pics of the back of the 950 should'nt I be seeing 7 or 8 connections, listed "prepro OUT"? As in the Pioneer (8) and not on the HK (5) (I know the Pion/HK are receviers and not pre/pro)

Dosent a pre/pro still need to have the 8 connections "out" to the amp to be 7.1 channels?
Something I'm not spotting on the pics of the back of the 950.
The 950 is a 7.1 pre/pro correct? So are the connections made diffrently than on the 2 mentioned recievers?

(..the brick wall is beginning to retain the imprint of her forehead.....)