Thanks, Gonk. It seems some of our Outlaw brothers are missing the point. Outlaw products are built to be "giant killers", and as such, will always have to make some compromises. At, $699, the 970 is ridiculously cheap. I wish I had the extra dough for the 990, but the need to obtain worthy cables made me "compromise". Yes, I have found some glitches too, but they don't take away from my newfound love for my cd/dvd collection. I will check out the Rush dvd. thanks.