Here's the thing: RESOLUTION!
These processors are techinally something else, but more importantly sound like music should. When we are dealing in the digital world, the implimatation of high end D/A converters is far more important than the type of bells and whistles (though I am hoping for more bells with a nice software update). If The D/A converter is linear and has high resolution, I have not much need for high freq eq (we know this adds numerous kinds of distortion), of course there are external processors like Behringer, DBX, DEQX that correct room/speakers. I have all 3, but only use the DEQX (as 3 way active crossover/eq)
BUT, what's to lose? They take it back up to 30 days, nobody said different...