Well today marks a week with my 950. It first arrived on Friday a week ago minus the remote and manual, but a overnight Saturday delivery solved that problem. Great work by the Customer Service team.

Now I must say that Philip Hamm who had also owned the same model Newcastle I did was correct and DPL II was worth the difference. As I have Dish Sat. System we get a lot of stereo channels and they are great with the 950. Likewise the 5.1 channel input for SACD was much improved over the Newcastle. I also have more options for movies and music and will have more when I go to a 6 or 7 speaker system. Since I am still using a theater loop and listening to CD and Records through my tube preamp and my phono preamp I cannot really compare a lot of the analog, but I will get around to that. My set up is also simplified as I do not use a lot of the inputs from the Outlaw as the 2 channel work is still handled seperately.

Now for a question. I expect to and do get different output levels, from device to device and even station to station on the Dish, DVD and VCR and SACD. But I have a very large change in Db levels when going from any digital programing to say the SACD analog. We are talking possible equipment and hearing level harm if I do not adjust volumes down prior to changing over, a roughly 20 Db difference. The First time I hit the 6 channel button on the remote I almost straightened my hair. ALso if I use the stereo bypass while in digital mode such as DPL II I get the same effect, a 20 Db increase in volume. Is this typical for others, or do I need to contact Outlaw. Thanks.