Outlaw is only available in US and Canada as far as I know. I have no experience. I read only good things about Outlaw on this forum. If you run "search" I think you will find favourable comments by a lot of well informed people here.
Cirrus makes the DAC's for this unit and they are very good, particularly at this price point. The money spent on this unit is on the internals. It isn't the most beautiful preamp, just the best at under $1,000 by a comfortable margin. Even the remote appears to be the same as used by the B&K $3,000 receiver. Now I doubt that this AV preamp is capable of much, if any, upgrading. But what it does, it does incredibly well. Quiet, clean, and efficient. It has all the popular formats, except Dolby Prologic IIx, since that is from a very recent vintage (and is really only somewhat important if you want to play a 7.1 system in the Dolby matrixed sound mix). The unit is still capable of reproducing 7.1.
The only other sincere competition comes from Adcom and the cheapest Adcom might be the GTP-830 and it can be bought at a little over $900. But it has inferior DAC's 24/96K compared to the Outlaw's 24/192K's from Cirrus. Also the Outlaw has component video switching circuit bandwidth of around 50mHz. You'd have to go more upscale in the Adcom line to get this kind of performance.