Guido - you're right on the money. The 7500 is really a great pair with the 990. The attack is fantastic, and I've never heard the SL3s under such perfect control. Well, in fairness, I've heard them sound this good exactly once, and that was at Pass Labs display room at Stereophile '96, but otherwise I usually hear some excusable issues with the speakers. The issues are gone - I love this setup. Had I any idea how good the Outlaw product really were, I'd have made the upgrade much sooner. I'm just stunned.

Thanks for the recommendation to try the 'upsample' mode. It definitely smooths out vocals and strings which had a tendency to sound a little brittle at times in bypass mode, but it's splitting hairs. However, the upsample mode engages the 990s crossovers, right? I tried setting the mains as 'large' and cranked the high-pass filter down as low as it goes (40Hz I think). Is that as 'off' as it goes besides bypass mode? Once I get the subwoofer hooked up and tuned via the SMS-1, this will hopefully be a non-issue.

I'm pretty sure my neighbors are pissed. I live in a high rise apartment building, and the folks across the hall just moved in about 2 weeks ago. The day they were moving in, I was mastering a recording and doing listening tests on my main system and my Genelec 1031s at the mastering desk... and now I've been playing bits and pieces of bizarrely assorted music for the last two days. It's a blast for me at least.

Thanks again for the pointers.

- Jason