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I picked up an Outlaw ICBM and have been playing around with it for the last few days, Wow! It's a much bigger improvement than I expected.

I have it connected between the Pioneer DV-45A DVD/SACD player, and the Outlaw 1050 receiver. The sheer volume of bass response is much higher than before, I had to turn down the volume control on the subs from about 12 o'clock to 9-10 o'clock. I'm hearing lower frequency material than I've heard before, and the walls are rattling like never before. I replaced some cheap interconnect cables in the process, with some better ones. This must be contributing to the improvement as well. They aren't real high end overprice botique cables, just these: http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=181-650

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Verrrry interesting. You and I have the same DVD player, and I've always wondered what it's supposed to sound like.

Same experience here. I do not have SACD capabilities, but I use the ICBM between the pre/pro and the amp. I found a lot more easier to set up the sub with the ICBM controls than using the processor bass management and/or EP500 volume knob.

Now, I can set the volume of the EP500 a notch higher around 9-10 o'clock, and fine tune it with the ICBM sub level. The LFE control is extremely useful for fine tuning movie playback.

The bass is much tighter and the EP500 really shows off.

As a comment, for other ICBM users, I set the preamp with no subwoofer for music playing (leaving all the bass management to the ICBM) and with subwoofer output for the movie playback (for the LFE). With this two presets, its covered almost any situation.

By the way, do you use the recombine switch? I tried, but it changed the phase of the subwoofer, and it was not exactly 180deg, because changing the EP500 phase to 180deg did change but not in a good way. I left recombine off in the ICBM.

Cheers

I haven't messed with the recombine switch. I have had some trouble getting the phase right. My sub, Outlaw LFM1, only has two phase positions, 0 & 180. I run the Chesky set-up disc, the guy says "in phase", "out of Phase", (my wife hates when I run that disc, calls me a stereo geek. Is that bad?) the level is supposed to be louder in-phase, but it's always louder out of phase regardless of the phase setting on the sub. It sounds great, so I'm not gonna stress over the phase setting.