It will be interesting to see what the LMC-1 ends up being. It is well over a year late, and as Gonk mentions, still being sorted out. One would have thought it would be ready, but they seem to have had problems with the video and the menu system.

You have to believe it will sound good, but based on the information that is available, it is terribly under-featured for the price: no lip-sync delay, little or no bass management, no software upgradeability, fewer input/output choices than most receivers, and it appears to be based on the older, CS 49326 DSP chip. (Though, in fairness, no one has officially confirmed if the DSP is the '326 or a '400.)

The other thing I've always found peculiar is the choice of a 6x125 configuration for the UL amp. It's also configurable to 5x125 + 2x50. Fine, and undoubtedly a great amp, but given the general feeling these days that "equal power across all channels" is the way to go, it's an odd animal when used in 7.1 systems.