Outlaw cancels the Model 997 moving on to 998

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It is not a clone Mr. Misinformation. A clone would be an exact replica, and the Outlaw is going to be a pre-pro with features shared by the Sherwood receiver. It is going to be quite different from the Sherwood receiver, and the only real thing they share is the Trinnov setup processing. The quality of the features on the Outlaw will be a lot higher, it will have far more processing power, a higher version of the HDMI connection, beefier power supplies, and will be far more feature rich than the Sherwood receiver.

That does not sound like a clone to me!

It was going to be a "pre pro", cant even get your tense straight.
Any difference between an "Outlaw" and what it copies is purely cosmetic.
Now, a lot of companies have been doing this for years, at Walmart they had half a dozen boomboxes, all with a few differences but basically the same thing, but with different brand names, like SONY, PANASONIC, etc.
All of these companies contracted out to the same Asian manufacturer, and nothing wrong with that.
But these companies do make original product, they just contract out their mass market
stuff they dont want to mess with.
My point is that they DO some original work, parts get shared , for good economiesw of scale.
But companies like Outlaw don't do anything but slap their name on products,
and they surrive only until someone figures out that their products are only overpriced
clones of value brands like Sherwood( a good economy brand, but certainly not high end).
And some companies create outfits like Outlaw, so that they have a place to send product that is not quite up to snuff for their line, but "good enough" when their name isn't on it.
An old practice, and not one just done by electronics companies.
Beer companies, car companies, etc, all have "value" brands