Ecstatic

Got one of the original "hiss" models and even loved that. (It was only audible from listening position at setting above zero, and at that point the source material was so loud you'd hardly notice).

Got the "red dot" replacement last week. Hiss gone.

The unit is very audiophile "analytical". It extracts all the information that's there. Every little nuance of sound--and spatially presents it so each little sound is localized in some space. Sounds very clean -- as it should. What goes in comes out, which is what front end equipment is all about. Looking for a little added warmth or some other embellishment, go elsewhere.

It's an astonishing piece of equipment for the price.

A brief note to those who have been incessantly belly aching over missed deadlines and stopped production lines. I think the Outlaws were probably a bit too optimistic in announcing ship dates, probably because they calculated them assuming everything went according to schedule, which of course it never does. But I congratulate them for their open approach, especially acknowleding that some of the original units had a hiss problem and replacing at no cost.

BTW combined with the 770 this thing really kicks