Marcus, in reference to your quote;

"Bottom line: to get what I want today...I need an SACD player and a blu ray player ... and both feed audio via analog out to the Outlaw 990."

The 990 only has one set of multi-channel inputs, correct?

Or, can the digital output (optical or coaxial) from a SACD or Blu-Ray (or DVD-A for that matter) output the multi-channel information correctly?

I was under the impression that SACD and DVD-A needed to have the the "information", or music, output specifically via analogue (5.1) connections.
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