Thanks for the post. I was wondering what all the hubub was about. What I honestly don't get....

There is at least one merchant (not sure if they're authorized or not...but who cares?) selling the exact same Onkyo unit for $999. To be honest, even if those are refurbs, why on earth would someone want to spend an extra $650 to buy the same product from Outlaw?

Scratching my head....

The Onkyo does look like a very nice unit though and a number of folks, including myself, were actively discussing it as a viable alternative to the perpetually tardy 997.

I suspect Outlaw's stock of processors is very low and this is their stopgap to having no solution at all for a preprocessor while the 997 continues to languish in development.

Sigh...