piece-it pete
03-26-2008, 09:35 AM
My neighbors Yammie HT receiver (he was using it as a preamp) finally bit the dust, so he had a great excuse to upgrade.
He decided on an Outlaw 970. Out of the box it looked acceptable, although he had a hard time reading the display.
Anyway, upconverting video from s-vid to component looked grainy, and not just a little.
After checking connections, wires, etc, he called Outlaw and told them what was happening. After the requisite questions the guy said they were having a problem and swapped it out, no real problem.
Second 970 - same problem! But now the guy said he was mistaken and there wasn't a known issue, and gave my buddy a fair amount of grief even though this time the cables had been swapped out just to be sure they weren't the problem.
They did end up giving my bud a 990 at a sale price and took the 970 back, and he has only paid the freight one time.
Well the 990 has a problem upconverting as well!! But in this case somewhat faint diagonal lines through the picture.
He got his hands on an older Rotel 1066 HT processor and swapped it in. No lines!
Even though the Outlaw sounds better than the Rotel - and boy does it - he's thinking of giving up on them and maybe keeping the Rotel just because he don't have any confidence in Outlaw now.
I'll post how Outlaw handles this last issue when it is resolved. They've done kinda ok, although I feel they should be very very yes sir no sir right away sir at this point.
Any processor rec's at this price point?
Pete
He decided on an Outlaw 970. Out of the box it looked acceptable, although he had a hard time reading the display.
Anyway, upconverting video from s-vid to component looked grainy, and not just a little.
After checking connections, wires, etc, he called Outlaw and told them what was happening. After the requisite questions the guy said they were having a problem and swapped it out, no real problem.
Second 970 - same problem! But now the guy said he was mistaken and there wasn't a known issue, and gave my buddy a fair amount of grief even though this time the cables had been swapped out just to be sure they weren't the problem.
They did end up giving my bud a 990 at a sale price and took the 970 back, and he has only paid the freight one time.
Well the 990 has a problem upconverting as well!! But in this case somewhat faint diagonal lines through the picture.
He got his hands on an older Rotel 1066 HT processor and swapped it in. No lines!
Even though the Outlaw sounds better than the Rotel - and boy does it - he's thinking of giving up on them and maybe keeping the Rotel just because he don't have any confidence in Outlaw now.
I'll post how Outlaw handles this last issue when it is resolved. They've done kinda ok, although I feel they should be very very yes sir no sir right away sir at this point.
Any processor rec's at this price point?
Pete