I agree with your point of view.

As for Emotiva, while I find some of the concepts and features from the XMC-1 very seductive, I have a feeling that it may not perform as well as the 978 in terms of SQ and as I have expressed in a previous post, I'm not convinced that the Tact digital room correction system would be the most adequate, mostly because of it's single listening position nature. I could be wrong but time will tell. Furthermore, Tact have yet to integrate the Tact DRC technology into a unit other than the Tact TCS processor although I have no doubt that Dr. Radomir Bozovic (the co-founder and president) is up to the task as he's a brilliant man but he's also extremely busy with running most facets of Tact Audio and this could add quite some delays in the delivery of the DRC technology to Emotiva.