Now that the 7125 arrived, I was able to hook them up and listen to some 2 channel music and a bit of a movie I always listen to for surround effects.

Well, all I can say is, it was like there was a towel over the speakers and now the towel is gone.

Interestingly there was something I did not expect to encounter... audible hiss. Now don't get me wrong, I turned the 990 to a unused input, AUX, and proceeded to turn up the volume to the max setting and hiss was easily heard from the listening position. Out of curiousity, should this occur? I recall a post by gonk that indicated he did this test with the 950 and there was no hiss. ( After the blue dot fix as I recall ) Perhaps I am expecting too much?