Until the LMC-1 is finished and a manual made available, it's hard to say for sure. It has some valuable features - PLIIx processing, transcoding of video from s-video/ composite to component (assuming the video switching gets fixed), second zone with a little 25Wx2 amp - but curiously it has some of the same design omissions that the 950 caught a great deal of grief for back in early 2002 (no software upgrade support/RS-232 and no discrete speaker distance settings) as well as the lack of bass management and some question as to how/if stereo analog bypass is included. Does that mean that it's not worthy of consideration? Nope - but if a unit based on the 1070 (which is what started this discussion a few posts back) that were priced several hundred dollars under a grand would add some interesting spice to the (currently non-existent) +/-$500 new SSP market that the LMC-1 would otherwise have to itself once it comes to market.