Quote Originally Posted by frenchmon
RR...I do owe you an apology
Frenchmon, thanks for the kind comments, but no need to apologize. We disagreed and now agree, no problem. I just thought some here were a little slow on picking up on what I thought was more obvious. I know there were many comments that the ERC-1 was superior to a $200 player and others who compared it to very expensive players without detailed comments that were perceived as fanboy talk. Even the reviews in Secrets of HT and Affordable Audio are little lacking in details. You guys wanted to hear more and Mr. Peabody has been very helpfull with his detialed comments on the ERC-1.

I picked up some hints right away (other than my previous experience with the XPA-5 amp from Emo) that this was something more than your usual $400 player. Some might laugh, but one of the first things I look at in specs is weight as in 17.5 lbs for the ERC-1. That many times is a tip off to at least build (if not sound) quality for me. That caught my interest soon in both the XPA-5 (75 lb A/B amp) and the small Emo ERM-1 bookshelf speaker (18 lbs).

I can tell you that Emotiva's other electronics and speaker products also provide an amazing price/performance value .