For those who are reading this thread and who have never "touched" a 950 - I completely disagree with those who say the buttons and knob on the 950 are terrible. I realize that this can be considered a subjective thing, but I just don't understand why the knobs and buttons are taking such a severe beating. I, for one, don't find a thing wrong with the knobs and the rubberized volume control is actually kind of nice.
After all this talk I took the time to compare the knobs and buttons with my other equipment, which includes some very nice pieces from a build standpoint and the Outlaw, in my opinion, fits in very nicely in build quality.
Also, in the real world I've maybe used the buttons and knobs on the 950 maybe 3 or 4 times (and I've had one for four months now) so even if these were crappy (and they are not!) it wouldn't really matter to me. I'm not trying to justify the importance or non-importance of quality knobs based on remote usage - it's just that I honestly do not agree with all this knob bashing since my unit (now a production unit) has perfectly good hardware.