Sorry, the way the question was phrased gave the impression were asking the quesion with a grain of salt. "Warm" is a very vague and frankly in the absolute sense undefinable term. It's like asking how high is "high". And compared to what?

Your speakers are the single most important determiner of how a system sounds becasue they are far from perfect electro-mechanical devices - no matter how much they may have cost or what brand they are. If you have "bright" speakers, then any amp you mate them with will sound bright, and vice versa for speakers that have a subdued "warm" high end. No amplifier will completely make overly bright speakers sound anything but what they are. No amplifier will make dull sounding speakers sound "brighter" than they actually are. This is strictly a speaker frequency response and power response issue, not a power amplifier issue.

Compared to all the other solid state amplifiers on the market, the Outlaw amplifiers have been regarded very highly in regards to their sound quality.

I don't own an Outlaw amplifier (I am strictly a tube power amp person) but I do own the 950 preamp/processor, and I can certainly say that it is not "strident" or "harsh" in any way. "Warm"? Probably so, compared to "bright".

I would suggest you take them up on the 30 day in-home trial since highly subjective things like this cannot be answered with certainty on a forum.

[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited February 21, 2004).]