Upgrade Rotel RA-12 with Outlaw RR2160?

First off, I work from my home office full-time and have a nice 2.1-channel setup with a Rotel RA-12 integrated amp powering a pair of GoldenEar Aon 3 bookshelf speakers and an SVS SB-2000 sub. It sounds fantastic, but I have always wanted bass management, so that my GE's are not unnecessarily trying to play the lows as well.

The new Outlaw RR2160 looks exactly like what I've been looking/waiting for and it has some other nice additional features as well (streaming, HD Radio, etc...). Does anyone have any thoughts about how the RR2160 would sound compared to my Rotel RA-12?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Stach

Most subs allow you to feed the audio signal to the sub directly from the two channel audio output and then feed your receiver from the sub. What the does is allow you to adjust the crossover on the sub and the rest goes to the smaller speakers.

No, there's no amplified / speaker level outputs from the sub and this would also reduce the quality of the audio signal. Ideally, an integrated amp would have bass management, like the RR@16) that's done in the preamp stage and then the integrated amp would drive the main speakers and the sub would have it's own amp for just the lower bass frequencies.

I'm really hoping to hear from some peoples personal experience with listening to both similarly priced Outlaw and Rotel amps. I love the sound of my Rotel, but so many people have such strong positive feelings about Outlaw as well, that I'm hoping that the RR2160 can equal or surpass the sound of my Rotel, while providing several more features.

-Stach

I would think you would be able to use the line level output (pre-out) on your receiver into the inputs to the sub and then the line level outputs on the sub back to your receiver into one of it's line level inputs such as Aux1. That way the whole signal goes to the sub where it is filtered, based on the crossover setting, and then returned to your receiver to be fed to the amp section and then to your speakers. There should be no degradation of the signal and you use the sub controls to determine how much low frequency stuff is sent to your smaller speakers.