Hi All,

The 1070 is an excellent unit, worthy of hall of fame status! As a audiophile who uses a little sub $1,000 receiver that is solid state, I must tell you, I am pleased!

Unlike a lot of HT people, I use Audiophile grade speakers (Alon 2 Mk2), Subwoofer, HSU VTF-2 MK2 and a Audiophile Denon 3930CI DVD player.

Movies are cool sounding yet I still feel a larger room will make them sound better since you have more space between the fronts and greater distance from the rears.

Music is in my opinion, tougher to get right yet the 1070 does a wonderful job and I am sad to learn it wil be soon , retired.

I need to know, once the 1070 is no longer made, what will be the next unit?

Liz out

I doubt that we'll know what will come after the 1070 until it is pretty close to production. The announcement of the 1070's retirement mentioned that it'll be at least mid-2008 before a new Outlaw receiver materializes, at which point it will probably include HDMI (most likely v1.3) and likely a couple other capabilities that the 1070 doesn't offer (transcoding analog video to digital, maybe some video scaling). That's all just guessword, though, and I wouldn't expect many real details for a while - maybe at next year's HE Show we'll see something?

thanks Gonk!

To be named the 1090??

That's anybody's guess... 1090, 1080, 1075... Hard to say what it'll be.

I don't understand. If 1070 is so great then why are they retiring it? Why don't they have a next generation model already available and then phase out 1070?

The 1050 was also retired before a replacement was ready, although after something like three and a half years on the market it was pretty much due to be allowed to retire. For the 1070, the feature set holds up a bit better, which brings us back to the question at hand. I'll hazard a guess...

Since they don't have their own factory, they place orders with the factory that builds them (Eastech, in the case of the 1070) for big production runs. We don't know how big those batches have to be, but I'm sure they're not insignificant. With the market thirst for HDMI growing day by day and companies like Onkyo, Pioneer, and Denon starting to get HDMI v1.3 product onto shelves, they may feel that another batch of 1070's would keep the warehouse filled past the point where they have an HDMI receiver ready, leaving them with inventory that becomes hard to sell. The attention being paid to HDMI inputs and the slowly growing number of HDMI v1.3 receivers on the market also means that the 1070 may see a sudden feature set deficit this fall relative to its approaching competition, which is something that the 1050 didn't really experience (it lacked component video switching, but in 2002 or early 2003 that wasn't a huge deal when competing against other $500 receivers).