New Emotiva MR1 AVR Released

[Steve Dallas]

At $2,000, I am not sure I see a reason for this to exist:

MR1 Receiver

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If its specs are to be believed, it offers a good amount of power. But it does not support 8K, appears to have only IIR digital room correction, and, let's face it, is probably typically Emotiva buggy.

I paid $1400 for my Denon 4700 before the price increase, and it offers much more in features and likely performance.

Hopefully someone will send one of these to Amir for testing.

 

[techsamurai]

There's an existing post about the MR1 of this here:

Emotiva Introduces BasX MR1 Home Theater Receiver

This piece features a Sharc DSP chip and Class H power amplification. It, unfortunately, uses EmoQ room correction as opposed to Dirac. I have to wonder why not a 2.1 receiver with Dirac and Class H power amplification? I posted a poll on their forums some years ago about whether the company...

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$1,400 for the 4700 is a good deal. It's unfortunate that the 4800h is $2,500.

How much do you think this is worth?

 

[azzy_mazzy]

a new product category for them to be leaders in buggy software

 

[Trell]

Given all that I’ve read about Emotiva on several forums I would not buy a complex product like an AVR from them, ever.

 

[theBruce]

Given all that I’ve read about Emotiva on several forums I would not buy a complex product like an AVR from them, ever.

I would of considered it if it had HDMI 2.1 , like similar products from Onkyo that came out a year before the MR1 was released.

 

[danstahl]

I recently bought a refurbished and upgraded XMC-1 to replace an MC1. While I found the MC1 to be unbelievably buggy the XMC-1 has been rock solid and sounds amazing. At least in some cases Emotiva can get their act together.