Life at Six Months with Emotiva

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Reminds of of how Blueray players work. There are so many stops and starts before the movie actually begins that sometimes I think there is something wrong.

I can never get my "Extended Collector's Edition" of Avatar to start at the beginning. After a considerable wait, it finally resumes somewhere in the middle. Then I back it up to the beginning.

Many DVD's have too many commercials before the movie begins and no way to skip over them.

Agreed. They certainly embrace the concept of customer disservice. You can usually, however, fast forward through them when the skip function is blocked. Or just refill your beverage and visit the bathroom during all that crap and wait for the main menu. Last night, the wife and I watched a Netflix film where they played the 20th Century Fox intro three times through the many previews. Fortunately, I just had to hit skip four times.

I was reading the features of the UMC-1 and it looks nice. Bass management appears to be much more controllable compared to my Yamaha.

It allows for both 12 and 24 db/octave slopes and more crossover frequencies to the sub than did the NAD.

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