Comments on: Outlaw Audio Model 990 http://www.htblog.net/2006-05-23/outlaw-audio-model-990/ Home Theater Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:48:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Steve http://www.htblog.net/2006-05-23/outlaw-audio-model-990/#comment-203 Thu, 25 May 2006 15:14:31 +0000 http://www.htblog.net/2006-05-23/outlaw-audio-model-990/#comment-203 It looks like connector constraints have finally become the dominant factor in pre/pro mechanical design! That box could be about 1/3 the height (like my Myryad) and still accommodate the front panel interface and internal electronics. (There won't be any heavy-duty transformers or huge heatsinks in there, it's a pre/pro.) But then there wouldn't be room for all the back panel connectors... (The Myryad doesn't have balanced audio outputs, which take up about 1/3 of the back panel on the Outlaw. That's kind of a shame, because my Bryston power amp supports balanced inputs. But balanced outputs are not that common even in mid-to-high-end pre/pros, and apparently they're expensive to do right - the Lexicon MC-12 has a balanced version that costs about $2000 more than the unbalanced one. This may be because a properly ("true") balanced signal path requires twice as many electronics as an unbalanced path.) It looks like connector constraints have finally become the dominant factor in pre/pro mechanical design! That box could be about 1/3 the height (like my Myryad) and still accommodate the front panel interface and internal electronics. (There won’t be any heavy-duty transformers or huge heatsinks in there, it’s a pre/pro.) But then there wouldn’t be room for all the back panel connectors…

(The Myryad doesn’t have balanced audio outputs, which take up about 1/3 of the back panel on the Outlaw. That’s kind of a shame, because my Bryston power amp supports balanced inputs. But balanced outputs are not that common even in mid-to-high-end pre/pros, and apparently they’re expensive to do right - the Lexicon MC-12 has a balanced version that costs about $2000 more than the unbalanced one. This may be because a properly (”true”) balanced signal path requires twice as many electronics as an unbalanced path.)

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