As I said in my post, I'm interested in the pro reviews for the test measurements. All reviews have to be looked at with a certain level of criticism and sometimes downright skepticism as many pro reviewers often have conflicts of interest by the mere fact that the producers advertize on their websites and/or publications. The areas where professional reviews often fail is in the stability and reliability of the reviewed product. Because of review time constraints and the infeasibility of properly testing all the possible permutations in using a complex product, a reviewer cannot realistically find out about all the little bugs and stability issues unless they're really major and obvious, which in most cases they'll report back. That's when one has to resort to reading the forums to see what the buyers have to report on their experiences using the product.



Same here although I'd like to get much higher than AVR SQ. I hope the 978 can be better than an Integra DHC-80.3 in terms of SQ, which I believe is feasible considering that the 978 will have a far less complex design and feature set. I'm hoping that it could turn out to be the "Oppo BDP-95" of the AV processor market. A guy can dream, can't he? OK, so many I'm dreaming in Technicolor.



I can't speak to those issues as I have no personal experience with either Outlaw or Emotiva products and I haven't been following their reliability history. From my observations and detached perspective, I don't think that most folks around here are lumping the two companies together with respect to product stability.