"With the help of the famous loudspeaker designer Vance Dickason, they have put together a 5.0 package at a price that seems almost too good to be true. These speakers sound great, the dipole surrounds are amazing, and the boundary and tweeter adjustments mean that they'll fit almost any room."

Read the full Audioholics.com review of the ERM-1/ERD-1

details and photos of the ERM-1 | details and photos of the ERD-1

How does a company like Emotiva separate itself from the pack and offer something that is really special?

For starters, we teamed with the very talented loudspeaker designer Vance Dickason. He literally wrote the book on loudspeaker design! Vance is a legendary figure in the audio industry and he's been behind some of the most popular and successful products on the market. We're privileged to have him as a part of the Emotiva design team.

Vance has been instrumental in the design of our loudspeakers from day one. Working closely together we designed a full line of high performance transducers for all of our new models. We don't use any "off the shelf" transducers, all Emotiva drivers are custom designed and purpose built for our products and manufactured to our exacting standards; Vance wouldn't have it any other way!

To learn more about Vance Dickason and loudspeakers in general, please go to the following links: Official Bio | Vance on wikipedia.org | Vance at amazon.com | Vance at LionAv.com

details and photos of the ERM-1 | details and photos of the ERD-1

AffordableAudio.com March Issue Excerpt: "...The sound has more authority to it. For instance, the bass is tighter, kick drums have more kick, and the pluck of upright bass strings have more “pluckiness.” Other differences include greater refinement which offers a bit more detail and clarity. It is as though a thin layer of skin has been peeled back from my CDs to reveal more music embedded on them..."

Our high performance XPA-5 5 channel amplifiers are sold out...but not for long! They'll be back in stock in late April and shipping again. The XPA-5 has been reviewed at AffordableAudio.org, and our forum is buzzing with user reviews and praise from happy customers...get on the preorder list for the next shipment now!

The UMC-1, featuring full HDMI 1.3 compatibility, is still in progress, awaiting the final codes and chips necessary to go into production. This will hopefully be very soon.. After the unit is completed and thoroughly tested by both Emotiva engineers and outside parties, it will be ready to ship. We've put a lot of work and thought into the unit, and think you'll be happy with the finished product.

(image is artist rendering, not finish product. click image for larger view)
UMC-1 - due: Summer 2008 - place pre-order now
price: $699 (initial run)

Partial list of features:

• 4) HDMI inputs and 1) HDMI output.
• 4) each composite and s-video inputs
• 3) component inputs - all will be scaled and set out over HDMI at whatever resolution you want up to 1080p.
• DVI and VGA inputs which will be scaled and piped out the HDMI
• Full color graphical OSD on HDMI
• Auto room correction with User definable EQ's.
• 4) analog audio inputs (not counting the 7.1 analog input),
• 4) coaxial inputs,
• 3) optical inputs and both coax and optical digital audio outputs
• continuous 2 channel mix down of the audio on a fixed output level, as well as variable and independent Zone 2 output and an analog record output.
• Built in AM/FM tuner, trigger output
• IR in and outputs
• iPOD connectivity
• USB for complete flash upgrades (no need to ever send it in for an update),
• Calibration microphone.
• Deep menu structure that allows for assigning the inputs and selecting default modes per input.
• HD formats including DTS-MA.

More details to come.

UMC-1 - due: Summer 2008 - place pre-order now

Excerpt from Audioholics.com review of RPA-1:
The Emotiva RPA-1 offers one of the best values in reference quality amplifiers out there. Beautiful, powerful, and bulletproof, if this amp isn't on your father's day/mother's day/birthday/Christmas wish list, it should be.

Rating: 5 out of 5 on both performance and value - read full
review

The award winning RPA returns! Emotiva's critically acclaimed and award winning 2 channel amplifier the RPA-1 is gone, but the new RPA-2 is on its way. This is the same amp, but with a new look. It will still feature the popular analog meters as the RPA-1, but will have a solid black face with thin aluminum trim pieces, like the XPA-5.

We also have a new version of the RSP-1 called the RSP-2! It's designed to match the appearance of the RPA-2. (items pictured are renderings, not actual production models)

RPA-2/RSP-2 - due: Summer 2008 - place pre-order now