Interest Check: Emotiva ERC-1 group purchase

[dane_peterson]

This thread is inspired by all the banter on the Early B. Emotiva thread...

Let's put this one to rest, everyone. Here's your chance to decide for yourself how the ERC-1 stacks up.

Official "rules" can be established once we have a decent number of interested participants. I'd say $20 should be the minimum investment for any contributor. The player can then be Karma'd off to one of the participants, drawn at random.

Who's in?

[cnh]

Sounds fine to me since Face prompted me to even think about this option.

I'm in.

cnh

[lightman1]

I'll pony up and see what all the fuss is about.
In.

[megasat16]

I AM IN! Hooray!

[NJPOLKER]

Nice idea however I won't waste my time or money.

[GV#27]

I'm in if I get to do the sledgehammer/tracking test.

[ESavinon]

Great idea. Not in since I'm familiar with Emotiva already.

[lightman1]

I'm in if I get to do the sledgehammer/tracking test.

The most critical test on the list. You get it last.:p

[comfortablycurt]

I got $20 on it...if we actually get enough people together to buy one.

I'd love to get my ears on one, and make my own decision regarding it's sound quality.

[george daniel]

The most critical test on the list. You get it last.:p

Russ is on the clock.;)

[MillerLiteScott]

Put me on the list. I can put it up against my basically stock Jolida. That should make for a good shoot out.

Scott

[BlueFox]

I'll chip in 20 dollars for this.

I will do two A/B tests. First, compare the Emotiva to the Sony5400ES SACD/CD player. Second, compare the Emotiva output to its digital output through the Benchmark Dac1 Pre.

This will be a pure "ears only" subjective test.

[Sherardp]

definitely in, I'll chip in 20-30 bucks.

[apphd]

I'm in for $20. Can't do any good comparisons, except to vinyl, does that count?:p But would like to hear this to see what a dedicated CDP sounds like.

[dane_peterson]

Great news!! I contacted Emotiva earlier this week in regards to our plans here... the VP of Operations just e-mailed me back a response.

Emotiva is willing to sell Club Polk an open-box ERC-1 for 30% off! We should almost have enough monetary commitment at that rate. I will start an OFFICIAL thread for this in the next couple of hours. Just wanted to share with everyone that bit of information.

[lightman1]

Sweet! Keep us posted.
Thanks again

[Sherardp]

How would we send payment, good deal too with 30% off. Nice job with working that.

[dane_peterson]

I will provide instructions in a separate thread... have to deal with a crabby 1 yr old at the moment. Stay tuned...

[Ricardo]

They already have open box players?








































j/k

This is a great idea for a demo. Tell them MIT jumped completely in and sponsored some cables. Having polkies pitch can get at some point into issues. Just saying

[dane_peterson]

They already have open box players?

I won't lie, that's what I thought too... but maybe there's a reason for it other than QC or overall performance? Trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. :)

[Retro152]

Dane, nice thread, have the Xpa-3. Will contribute $40 buck's toward's the "cause" to make this happen.


Pat.

[Face]

This is a great idea for a demo. Tell them MIT jumped completely in and sponsored some cables. Having polkies pitch can get at some point into issues. Just saying

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[Falcon01]

They probably used it for testing and/or demo'ing. It's common for a manufacturer to have several units available for testing and such before the product actually launches.

I.E. Emo's UMC-1, Oppo 83, etc.

[dane_peterson]

It's official. For those of you subscribed to this thread, please see:

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84103