I wonder what we will designate it as...998, 999?? This will definitely liven up the forum. Go Outlaws.

999 was already taken by Herman Cain.

Hmm. /Me thinks you'd need an 11-channel amp to power all those speakers...

Good point. 11 channels of amplification.

Cue the Spinal Tap jokes.

A 7075 for the surrounds and a 7500 for the mains.

Ritz2, I'm glad I wasn't the only one sitting here thinking about Spinal Tap.

After the fiasco with the last couple of higher end processors flaming out only to be replaced by the rather mundane 975, it had better be something rather extraordinary. I noticed that Emotiva finally got their flagship processor out the door (a year or three after they planned). That seems like a pretty tough business to be in unless you're one of the larger players with a significant dev/engineering budget. I ultimately threw in the towel with the smaller niche players and got an Onkyo unit with Audyssey XT32 and called it a day. Life's too short.

More like 6 years (people had been on that pre-order wait list since 2008).

The feature that is supposed to separate that flagship processor from other 7.1 pre-pros is Dirac room correction, and THAT they have yet to get out the door.

LOL! You are correct. I hadn't heard that dirac was left out on the initial release. Jeez...

So far, I am having pretty good luck with Audyssey XT32. It's "good enough" that I haven't seriously considered upping my game to something like Dirac's PC software solution.

Best,