I don't know about you, but I've never been a fan of paying much of a preumium for hand-selected so-and-so's. Now, if the AT had some new features compared to the 950, in fact, if it had ANY new features compared to the 950, then that would be different. But I don't see anything new. And as far as the specs being better, sometimes this happens because the original specs were too conservative, or because after the unit ships they improve the manufacturing process.

As far as I can tell, the AT and the Outlaw 950 are the same. The big complaints about the 950 that should be relatively easy to fix, like the DPL 2 reset, the bad user interface, not memorizing settings when switching modes, time delay settings being the same on the surround channels, not being able to easily change the subwoofer volume, the very bad AM, and not being able to upgrade the software code, among other issues, are not even addressed. No doubt these are the types of things that could be addressed if in fact, someone were to put out even a slight upgrade to the 950, in my opinion. But no, it's just "premium" parts and better specs. And of course, the AT unit looks different than the 950. That's just marketing. For brand identity. There were all these published pictures of the AT and of the 950 insides on various web sites just after the January CES, and from those pictures, the outside was different, but the internals, down to the capacitors, seemed identical.

It just costs more.

[This message has been edited by Will (edited July 24, 2002).]