JC, Dean basically hit the high points.
My personal trust in Emotiva to deliver a product of this complexity has eroded. My opinion is that a processor requires so much corporate collaboration with other major players (Dolby, THX, chip manufacturers, etc.) that any company trying to bring forth such a product must have quite large operating scale. The design, integration, research, development, QA, and sourcing for a processor take so much more effort than the actual production. I don't want to bash Emotiva, because I honestly have great respect for the people, what they are trying to do and their business model. It's just that they took YEARS to bring the UMC-1 to market, and it still isn't "right" according to too many users.
