I have just bought a lightly used 990, that I should be getting next week. The 990 will be replacing a Sherbourn PT-7010A. It was a nice pre/pro but lacked bass management on the 7.1 inputs.

I will be feeding the 990 from a HTPC with HDDVD and Blu-Ray, with a X-Meridian Sound Card. I have a ATI 3003 Amp feeding 3x Ascend 340SE for the fronts, and 2 Crown XLS402 feeding the 4x Ascend HTM-200 surrounds.

The only question I have on the 990, is if there is a discrete IR code, for direct volume control. Say if I wanted to program a macro that the outlaw would go to -10db or -5db?