Hello Fellow Outlaws,

Since so many of you have speculated on some of the more technical aspects of the model 200, here is a bit more information.

The issues that we face with presenting more of this data are centered on the concern that some who profess to be knowledgeable in this area are actually drawing erroneous conclusions based upon what they have heard from others, often with no practical or engineering experience.So with that in mind, here is a bit more information about the Model 200:

First, we want to tell you that the particular engineer who designed this product for Outlaw has over 30 years of successful consumer electronics design experience. In particular his designs have been used in some of the most famous and well- respected names in our industry. Presently there are two extremely high end companies offering products with his amplifier designs.
The Model 200 utilizes a newly designed (and proprietary), hybrid Class A/B/Class G circuit. It will provide class A/B power up to 80 watts (which covers about 98 % of most listening situations). Above 80 watts the Model 200 will instantly shift into Class G amplification. This approach was chosen because of our requirements that this amplifier had to be quite compact (1 3/4 inches high) In addition we insisted that the amplifier would not use any fans. For those of you who are curious, the transition from class A/B to class G requires just two microseconds (NOT milliseconds),and (we know this question is coming) the transition itself is 100% inaudible. This was key to us in that some other alternative designs exhibit audible side effects. Incidentally at 200 watts the 200 has less than .05 % THD.

For output devices, there are a total of six: four bipolar transistors rated at 15 amps each and two robust power mosfets rated at 40 amps each Dynamically, into 8 ohms the unit will put out approximately 300 watts! In addition, it has at its disposal 20,000 microfarads of capacitance.

If we haven't said it before, the Model 200 will sound not only powerful, but neutral in its character. All in all, this is NOT your father’s amplifier

Regards,

The Outlaws!

[This message has been edited by Scott (edited December 03, 2002).]