Well, I haven’t been a Emotiva customer for that long to ”remember” failed promises of yesteryears..
I don’t feel like they have promised that much since I bought my RMC-1 (june 2019). They have hoped to
have Dirac ready last year though, and had alot of excuses why they failed. Mostly blaming Dirac for not
delivering the full code and/or working code. Yes, they got it late about june last year, yes it seems the
code had to be recoded alot, especially memory allocation I heard. But..
It felt a little strange, a company only blaming other companies for their own failures. This was a new for me.
Acting a little bit unprofessional IMO.
But is Emotiva the only company to ”promise” what they want to do? I rather have a company telling
me what they want to do and what they are working on than not.
The only thing that’s bad is their time scale.. Everything takes ages. Even minor fixes. Other than the
1.9 ASR fix because that hit them hard.
Although, since I bought my RMC-1 I have had 6 official firmwares and 2 betas. Compared to others
that’s quite alot in less than a year. Not many new features though, mostly catch-up for their bad
stability.
But I have almost never seen or heard these issues myself. The unit has been quite stable for me.
Never had any firmware update issues, never done those crazy steps SOWK writes about.
Just update, restart and use, every time. Never even backed up my settings until I first installed
a beta I got from them.
But it has been slooow.. I have mentioned this alot both to Emotiva and at the Emo lounge, but
most seem happy with the speed now.
The big boys (Denon/Marantz, Yamaha, Onkyo/Pioneer) almost never upgrade their stuff. You get what
you paid for the year you bought it. Next year they mostly add some feature to to make you ”need” to
upgrade. Don’t know if these silent ”promises” are better.
I got pissed of several times when they added a feature I know can be added by firmware but chose
not to just to sell the new year model.
Sorry for my ranting..