Very true, but I'm on a mean strak today so I'll just lob this in: With the Emotiva product, you have a company making (I think) its first effort into this strata, using several very new technologies. That is why I think so many big boys are waiting for others to iron out the kinks. So for $300(or so) in savings, you have to wait and get a much riskier product.

You know Onkyo can make a prepro that competently decodes and passes all the signals around, and you have an amp. For $1,000, I'd take the Integra over the Emotiva even if they were dead equal. Given what I have heard about Emotiva, I have some reservations that their product will equal the Integra right out the gate.

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