Mind you, I believe Alan must have the H/K 525, which allowed the full bass management on the analog inputs. I bought the next year's model, the H/K 635, assuming it to have the same feature, but H/K unceremoniously removed it after one model year.

My 635 did add the room EQ, which I find to be pretty good, and it still has the variable crossovers for each speaker (which is great). But I would have loved to have the full bass management on the analog inputs, as I have a ton of SACD's and DVD-A's. But as it stands, my Denon 2900 has a fixed 80hz crossover, which works ok.

That actually leads me to a question about the Oppo. I have a new Pioneer 1080p plasma on preorder, so I was looking at the Oppo 980. How do the Oppos handle crossing over for the analog outputs? If you set the speakers to "small", does it have a fixed crossover? Thanks.