Scott and company already know that my 990 is available as a test rig for new firmware, and I'm sure there are others - they may not use all of us, but some of us will probably be asked to poke around at whatever patches come out of all this. I suspect that they'll keep the patch testing fairly quiet (don't want to get us all eagerly anticipating a new patch if it isn't ready for prime time), but in the past they've done some good external testing. Jump back to 2002 and the hiss problems experienced by some users with the early Model 950's - the most notable problems were reported by soundhound (probably due in large part to his insanely efficient horn speakers), and both development and testing of revisions included him.