Giant Killer
Written: Jan 02 '02
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Pros: Ease of use, straight forward design and tons of clean power
Cons: No A/B speaker switch, no DTS ES decoder
The Bottom Line: The money goes into this unit where it is important, the quality components, the sound, not the bells and whistles. Go for it! Great reciever!
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| ecrab3's Full Review: Outlaw Audio Model 1050 6.1 Channel A/V Receiver |
I love my Outlaw. I was in the market for a reciever that had Dolby Dig and DTS to replace my older Pioneer pro logic reciever and my eyes were originally set on another Pioneer, then to Denon 2802 and this was the last choice. Im glad I did. After reading lots of reviews, the Denon seemed less and less attractive because of the apparently complicated set up, menus, bad remote and just plain non-intuitive design. The Pioneers were not as clean in the power section and had too many things that I never use anyways like DSP modes. Then after reading reviews for the Outlaw, and the return policy, I just had to give this a try.
To this day I love it more and more. The 65 watts were a concern at first until I heard it. Way louder than my 110 watt x2 Pioneer and others that I listened to that said they were 100 watts. I tried out a few others at Circuit City and Best Buy after I got the Outlaw and I was surprised how much of the WOW features that the other recievers had was more frustrating when I tried to navigate to find the tuner function or adjust the bass. Or worse, come to find out that I needed to use the remote (dead batteries)to make an adjustment because that reciever didnt have a button on its face. The Outlaw can access all of its functions from the face OR remote. If I want to adjust bass, I hit the bass button and the left and right arrows. I want to change the built in crossover, I hit that button, not scroll and scroll till I find it, only to pass it up and start over like I did with another.
I was blown away by the way it made my cheapo speakers sound. Very full sounding, just had lots of headroom. I havent turned it up all the way because it might blow up my current speakers. Im waiting on better more efficient Acoustic Research S50s in this week, I cant wait!
The remote is very cool, backlit with a blue Indiglo type light.
The set up is very easy, almost dont need to manual, which also is written in english with no happy faces and cuteness around. Not translated from something else that never translates right. It makes sense, but I hardly needed it.
The look is a bit plain, but when you get up in the high end recievers, they all look like this, straight forward and full of power. This also weighs a bunch! Once its in the entertainment center, there is no more scooting it around, its in there. I had to pick it up again to move it over a inch.
The negatives..have to scrape the bottom to find any, but these are my picks. No AB speaker outs. I could of really used this feature, so now I had to buy a external selector.
It doesnt decode DTS ES. Well I dont have any DVDs with that anyways. It does have a 6.1 decoder that is very similar to ES and works just like ES, just wont decode ES. That is it for me, no biggie. If these two things are the only reasons not to buy it, you might have a hard time finding another one that is this good for the price, or you dont have your priorities in place.
I highly recommend this reciever. Its different. Trust me, this thing will kill almost every reciever out there until you get into the $1000 price range.
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Amount Paid (US$): 554 w/ ship
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