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Originally posted by soundhound:
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 [b]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.

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Thank you soundhound, now that is the kind of reply I have been looking for. I don't know if you have been reading any of my other post? My speakers are MB Quart SL530's. They require alot of oomph to make them really stand out. They are 4 ohm speakers at 85DB's. The manufacture recomends that i use an amp that is rated between 75 and 130 wpc. I have had other replies that say they though my speakers would match well with a warm sounding amp, such as the NAD or B&K amps. I was thinking of trying out two 200m's with my current setup. I would be using my Denon A/V receiver as a pre-amp. What are your thoughts? Thank you for all the help.