Liz,

I thought the 1070 was excellent. I do think that the 1070 would be more than suitable for your needs. The only reason that I went for the 990/7700 combination was that I thought if the 1070 was so good, then the 990/7700 would be even better. However, at 3X the price, it is a law of diminishing returns.

In my opinion, if the 1070 is an 8 out of 10, the 990/7700 is a 9 out of 10. Also, the 990/7700 had some additional features that a normal person might not care about. Since I'll admit that I'm a little crazy, I liked some things like the volume knob feel, the fact that you could use the microphone to set the speaker distance automatically as opposed to fooling with the radio shack meter and I could rename the inputs from video 3 to XBox 360 among other things that I can't think of right now. Again, this might not affect the typical buyer, but I go crazy for this type of stuff.

I know you will enjoy the 1070 as I did. Have fun as half the enjoyment is the anticipation of whatever you choose to do.

Aaron