@sanford12 You have had the RR2160 for a while now. Has it changed much? I've had my finger on the trigger for a bit. I don't really need it but, I like it.
My Luxman L450 is very tube like and I really like it. The 2160 is a different animal and a great sounding one. It's a lazy man's dream. I stream music thru a tablet and the internet radio is also a great option for lazy listening.I read the review in Stereophile. Just wanting a first hand opinion.
I using separates and tubes now. I'm getting lazy and would like to simplify my system. This would sure make it easy.
To tell the truth I played with it a bit at first thought it sounded better with the defeat on and have just left it that wayHow well does the tone defeat work? I see you have it activated in the pic.
Do your scrolling arrows work backwards like mine do? "Up" is "down" for the station numbers? Have you found any faster way to get from station 100 to station 800 other than manually going one-by-one? Any way to just manually enter a station number and just go there? Unfortunately it's not a "smart scroller", where the speed of the search increases with the amount of time your finger is on the button... it just slowly plods along one-by-one.I'm using tp-link wifi extender mdl RE200. It has an ethernet port on it and it works flawlessly. The extender I had before work flawlessly till it crapped out. Scrolling through is a PITA I'll give you that. I would suspect your connection to the amp, not the amp for your connection problems. I've never had to cycle it to get it to connect. It takes a few seconds to load and start then it's rock solid and the sound with a good station is excellent. If you checked it out before buying you knew it didn't have bluetooth if you didn't that's on you.To me it was just something to say to pile on to make it sound worse. When you were responding to the Stereophile Reviews the Outlaw RR2160 thread I wondered why anyone who complained so much about it before purchasing would buy it. And 800 bucks for all it does is an amazing bargain. Sell it on to someone who'll enjoy it. As far as not having a full blown manual. It took 10 minutes to set-up and there's nothing hard, controls are well labeled. It's pretty self explanatory.
THANK you for your answer; This explains half of my frustration with what's been going on with my unit. I disagree (putting it mildly!) with Outlaw's total lack of development in this area and will continue to try and find Ethernet that makes the RR2160 happy... even though my laptop NEVER has any issue with the very same physical connection.No way to tune direct that I know of and yes they're "Backwards" I make sure to write down the stations I like and tend to stay on that station the whole session. It does remember the last stations I was listening to. I also use a RocketFish bluetooth adapter to stream music and internet radio. We should push Outlaw for a firmware update which they should do anyway since their products tend to have a long production run.
Kinda thinking that, or a used Music Hall Maven or similar could be the ticket. Thank you for your feedback!I still enjoy the heck out of it. Using a Marantz CD-6006 shows how good it is with the amount of detail. You give it a good source and it will shine. The only draw back is with the phono and confined to MC. It doesn't pump up the signal enough. MM carts are fine. I had a set of Dahlquist DQ-12's that I ran with a NAD 7140 receiver but the Outlaw is much better than the old NAD and a lot more versatile. The internet radio is something I really like. Some of the HD stations sound great. Never heard a Mambo so I can't speak for that. I switched from a Luxman L450 that I rebuilt that sounded very good but I like the Outlaw better. I'm running a set of 8 ohm not very efficient B&W 704's and a set of 5 ohm Martin Logans together and the Outlaw purrs right along. I did call Outlaw before doing so and they said it's fine as long as you don't play it at stupid high levels. They're techs are very good. You've 30 days to try it if you don't like it send it back and you'll get your money back minus postage.