I received mine in 5/2002 and been on the 3rd unit for various design QC issues. The current one sits in my rack since 3/2003.I've been happy with it's performance and user convinience, some quirks, but I can live with. I found the analog section to be very good for the price,but the digital section is nothing to write home about.Ever since I got the Denon 2900 uni player it has been more then obvious that the 950 can't compete with that,as far as it's Dacs goes.I also wanna have the latest PLIIx or Logic 7 to enhance my plain vanilla 5.1 movies. The onboard CES and forced EX/ES just don't cut it for me.I also like the new "auto eq" features that pops up on many new gears these days.So for me yes, it is long on the tooth and I'm looking for an upgrade.Whatever happened with Outlaw's plan to introduce a high end pre-pro? I would jump on that, but it's very quiet on the "western front"[pun intented].I might have to jump ship and look somwhere else.