May I suggest - or rather sketch the ideal of - a way forward?
Clearly Emotiva will desperately try to salvage this design, that should've been aborted long ago. Expecting them to admit to incompetence and bad performance is foolish. They would ban every single user on their forums and close down the entire site, before they would ever admit to selling a terribly-engineered POS. And their stakeholders would be right to expect this of them.
For this not to devolve into an unproductive war of two persons (Amir vs. Emotiva dude) and two boards, losing themselves in ever finer details and disagreements of proper protocols and ways of presenting graphs (which Emotive would certainly like, as obfuscating and creating uncertainty would allow them to continue business as usual), a third party is needed. Clearly this is what science demands. Amir does well to employ 'objective' testing protocols, using standardized machines outputting data that should be intersubjectively invariable, that is, data that could be reproduced even if it wasnt Amir pressing the buttons but someone else. Most of the time that will be enough to satisfy the definition of 'scientific'. However in cases of disagreement and contested findings, that assumed intersubjective invariability has to be put to the test and a different person has to push the buttons to see what's what.
So here is my suggestion:
As I understand it, Gene DellaSala, the founder and principal editor of
Audioholics is both a true customer advocate with a proven track record, a learned electrical engineer with a mind for measurements, a declared opponent of snake oil and inflated manufacturer speaks and - IIRC an owner of an AP-analyzer (Edit: Apparently an "Audio Precision APx585". Is that ... good?). He's also situated somewhere in the US.
Let us send him
.... A.) an Octo-8-whatever DAC (the well measuring multi-channel one)
... B.) a non-Emotiva AVR, that has also been tested using Amirs battery of tests and shown to be (****** but) better than the RMC-1,
... and C.) either the very RMC-1 that was tested here or a new RMC-1, to be supplied by Emotiva themselves.
Then Amir will suggest two measurements to be taken and graphs to be produced and the Emotiva-designer will do the same. Finally Gene would add tests of his own that he believes to be indicative of real-world-performance.
Then let's see. (Of course, Gene would need to be interested in such an undertaking, but he'd be getting the chance of a pretty interesting write-up and if I judge him correctly, I believe he would cherish such an opportunity.)
Not only would such a procedure be an almost ideal realization of scientific ideals, it would also be VERY HARD for Emotiva to trivialize or blow off. I would be greatly amused to see them slither around on their forums and trying to find reasons why they couldnt possibly send an RMC-1 to Gene.
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PS: I sure hope there's no long-lasting blood feud between Amir and Gene that I am utterly unaware of.