for the amount of money you'll have to spend on the outlaw you could have a way badder ass secondhand system with the right amount of research. the price of the outlaw alone paid for my mcs 3125+servicing (that has a BIG 4 gang tuner), pioneer vsx d1s with original remotes+ owners+service manual, a set of mcs 8295 speakers that are surprisingly good despite obvious cheap build quality, 14 gauge+12 gauge wires, multiple 3.5mm to stereo rca cables, and about 40% of the cost of the bic america venturi dv-84 speakers.... with the 3125 on the 8295 speakers and the d1s on the dv-84's, ive got a pretty despicable system going. the dv-84's dont have the guitar zing and wah the old school cheap 8295's do, but the old school 8295's dont have the tight bass snap/resonance the dv-84's do.. though the 10 inch woofers on the 8295s will boom some bass the d1s on the dv-84's is the perfect foundation to fill in whats missing.
the first thing i had teamed with the d1s+dv-84's was a kenwood ar-404 hooked up to 4 small 40 watt speakers and a kenwood 100 rms 8 inch subwoofer instead of the 3125 on the 8295 speakers and while its an impressive system for its size/"componentry", it still isnt what my 3125+8295 speakers is. i even had the 8 inch sub tuned pretty good for the music i listen to so it could hold bass riffs and still punch without clipping, and i was impressed with it. i just really like the simplicity/size/clean sound/power of the ar-404.. for not really being anything special, it actually is a very cool receiver. id like to see kenwood come out with another audio receiver...
ive listened to a lot of different receivers on a lot of different speakers. different receivers will sound better than others on certain speakers. some receivers simply wont sound as good as other receivers on any speaker. in my quest for sound, ive found i need multiple systems to really get me the sound im looking for. for intance, the d1s on the 8295 speakers doesnt have as much downright guitar presence as the 3125 does. the guitars from the 3125 are downright sexual and electrifying. guitar sounds are like explosions coming from the 3125. the d1s sounds more clinical, it really didnt sound right with the old 8295 speakers. the d1s seems to do better with the dv-84's than the 3125 does though. its a tough comparison between the 3125 and d1s on the dv-84's but at the end of the day i prefer the d1s to drive them because the d1s needed something to do anyway. i bought the dv-84's to simply replace the 8295 speakers driven by the 3125. the dv-84's ended up compromising too much midrange to run them alone and i was almost pissed off about getting excited over them, but now i have some incredibly powerful sound that flatout jams.
with the stereo sub outputs on the d1s i could run two active subs or 2-4-6+? subs off a power amp if i so desired. along with a center channel mono sub output if i really wanted to.
if kenwood combined two ar-404's, and dedicated each amp/outputs to their own channel with a transformer per channel, i think that would be a best seller for years to come.