Well, we've had a very busy week here. We seem to have sorted out 99.9% of all known issues.
The platform is working beautifully! Everything that we know of is addressed and the improvements are really noticeable. We not only repaired the corrupted link that caused the first "major" malfunction, but Lonnie took advantage of the occurrence to fine tune some parts of the SW some that were slated for a future update.
We are working on one last bug; this is an audio interrupt that occurs once in a while. We think we know what is going on here and the team is working on this bug. We believe we'll have it ironed out by Monday or Tuesday.
So, we should have firmware update download available next week . We've taken the approach that we should carefully sort out all of these issues and give you one update the really address the known bugs instead of a never ending series of smaller updates.
One of the cool things Lonnie added was velocity sensing for the volume control, now you can turn up or down very quickly if need be, or rotate slowly for fine adjustment. Sweet.
All in all, it’s just more of what is already a very good thing. I think you will all be VERY pleased.
By the way, I have put a hold on shipments until I have the final SW as we are going to load it in the units before anymore are sent out. We'll resume shipments next week.
Thank you all once more for your patience and support.
Just in time for the Holidays! Gift cards are redeemable towards the purchase of any item at Emotiva Audio.
ERC-1 Reviewed at AVREV.com
Hefty build, great sound, eye-catching design and audiophile-grade guts make the ERC-1 a terrific all-around player. At just $399, it's one of the best buys in audio – period.
Emofest 2009 was a great success, and we'd like to thank everyone who came out and shared it with us. We couldn't have done it without you!
Over two hundred friends joined us for fun, food, music and equipment demos on Sunday, September 6th. Many prizes were given away and amazing deals were to be found on all gear we had in stock. We truly had a wonderful time, and extend our deepest thanks to all who were a part of it.
The Emotiva USP-1 stereo preamplifier is a delightful surprise. It performs far beyond its cost, and this is testament to the design skills of Emotiva's engineers. I also consider this a major step forward in the image that "Made in China" has. Even if the US economy were not in trouble, Emotive would sell a boatload of these preamps, and I suspect that, things being the way they are, maybe two boatloads.
Steve Guttenberg's high-end audio blog, 'The Audiophiliac' recently posted 'How to: Double your home theater's power', and listed the XPA-5 as an affordable and powerful cure to the problem of low powered receivers.
"Today's receivers are jam-packed with features, but the one thing they lack is power.
In fact, most $500 receivers never come close to delivering their rated power into all channels.
Some can barely manage a third of their claimed wattage. Right now, your 100 watt per channel receiver might be pumping out only 30 something watts."
Happy Friday everyone!
Emofest 2009 was a great success, and we'd like to thank everyone who came out and shared it with us. We couldn't have done it without you!
