Sure…. Rub it in Ken..

All my ‘cough’ HK’s have had bass management on the analogue channels. Pretty cool feature. They convert the analogue to digital; do their magic, than back to analogue. Whether this degrades the SQ or not, I have no clue but I didn’t notice it if it did. Not sure what models have this feature and which ones don’t. My 7200, 7300 and 745 all had it.

HK’s definitely have a whole slue of features that you don’t realize how handy they are until you don’t have them. Too bad their QC has gone out the window. But I’m beginning to wonder if any of the receivers manufactures care about QC anymore.

I’m real interested in hearing how the 980 does with SACD and multi channel music. I like the up-sampling that my PS3 does with the latest firmware upgrade and bet the 980 will do as well.

I’m half tempted to buy a 980 seeing how I have all of its siblings. I sure wish Oppo would change the IR commands though. It can be irritating when more than one is on the rack.