Arghhhh....I just called him and he said he bought a Rotel RMB-1095 yesterday since he was itching to purchase. The Rotel salesman told him that their RSP-1068 was "better" than the Outlaw 990 so he bought that too. That would have been a painless couple of grand for Outlaw and now my friend is going to realize that he paid more money for (from my perspective) worse sound.

Note to the Outlaws....in the future, you might not want to kill off the existing product line until their replacements are ready.