Originally Posted By: beyond 1000
Well as of yesterday Feb 3 Audioholics announced Emotiva's new XMC-1 pre/pro. Check out the site and the short intro by them. This is not a full review. Emotiva wants $1499 for this unit. I am not sure I am willing to pay that kind of money for an EMO. If that is the case I would be willing to first go with the 978 provided the price is respectable, then the Marantz 7005. One or the other but nothing else. With EMO's track record of early adoptor problems I would be skeptical.


I imagine Emotiva is going to deliver a much better product this time without all the bugs. I listened to the entire audio dialog while making pizza dough and it seems they've invested in a lot of quality outside work to complete this unit. I'm not an Emotiva fanboy and I don't own any of their products but after what happen with the UMC-1 I can't imagine they'd release something that isn't polished and fully functional.

The release date is slated for June/July.

I'm curious about the TACT TCS 3 e room correction they're using.