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Second test, which I think is more along the lines of what you wanted to know... Let's say that you wanted to use PLIIx-Movie for watching TV (which is my standard approach) but wanted to use PLIIx-Music for CD's. I stayed with my cable input, changed to TNT-HD for a DD 5.1 this time (although by this time, after a break to re-assure Kate that it was OK to go to sleep, Discovery HD was also playing a DD 5.1 broadcast). In that case, my 990 applies DD+PLIIx-Movie. Then I set my front input to the optical 1 and DVD component inputs (so as not to monkey with my normal CD input, which is set to upsample) and set it to use PLIIx-Music with the CD that was playing at the time. I could toggle between inputs to my heart's content: Cable stayed DD+PLIIx-Movie (or PLIIx-Movie for PCM and DD 2.0 stations), and Video5 stayed PLIIx-Music.
This is not what I asked. PLIIX music employs all 7 speakers[+sub] as I have, PLII Music employs 5[+sub], and they sound none alike, which why I was specific about it.
See the reason I asked this because I have A Boston Acoustics receiver which is based on the same Sherwood/Outlaw platform, as far as the DSP engine goes, and this receiver will stock in the PLIIX mode in all digital inputs, once it's selected at any one of them. So I wondered if the 990 would behave differently in the SAME exact situation as the Boston.