Brad,

I think the updates that Emotiva has developed for the XMC has closed the gap between it and the AVM 60. If I had known about the HDMI and surround sound format upgrades, I may have gone that route. When I was in the market, Emotiva was discussing none of that. I'm guessing that the SQ and room correction are both top notch and just as good as the Anthem. Of course, a head to head comparison would be fun.

Cheers,

T Cobe

hometheaterreview.com/anthem-avm60-preampprocessor-reviewed/

The second published professional review of the AVM 60 is now available on Hometheaterreview.com. In case you don't want to read the full review, let me sum it up. The reviewer is purchasing the Anthem to serve as his new reference component in his personal system. I can't think of a better testimonial than that.

Cheers,

T Cobe

www.audioholics.com/av-preamp-processor-...amp-processor-review

This makes two new reviews this AM. For the longest time there was nothing and now they are pouring in.

Cheers,

T Cobe

T Cobe wrote: www.audioholics.com/av-preamp-processor-...amp-processor-review

This makes two new reviews this AM. For the longest time there was nothing and now they are pouring in.

Cheers,

T Cobe

The latest issue of Sound and Vision also has a review of the AVM 60, titled "When Less is More". Says it "puts the money where you can hear it".

Happy listening!

Rick

The fellas at Audioholics sound like they LOVED the AVM 60. It was the most informative of the three reviews that popped up in the last couple days.

Funny that two of the reviews (Sound & Vision / Audioholics) mentioned the network bug that has plagued the AVM 60.

John,

I had some home network issues when I first purchased the AVM 60 and assumed the issues I had been having were part of that. So I will say that there were definitely issues with the AVM 60 "forgetting" the WiFi network setup, but as Audioholics indicated, firmware updates resolved the issue. It's been a while since I have had any connectivity issues. I also had to replace my wireless router that was giving me a host of issues.

I do have some issues with sound on Netflix. When I first fire up Netflix through my Oppo 103D, the audio doesn't always work. By switching from 5.1 to 2.0, and back to 5.1, the sound kicks back in. Not sure if this is a setting issue on my Oppo but it popped up after I was playing with the audio settings and performed an update on the Oppo. Nonetheless, it is an issue and the only remaining problem I have. As Moderator Dude previously illuded to, HDMI is a very troublesome technology.

I hope you're staying warm this week. First blast of arctic air. Wind chill is around 0 here today and it's set to get much worse. Good excuse to stay in and binge watch programming.

Cheers,

T Cobe