Emotiva XDA-1 DAC?

they only sent out one batch of the XDA so far, seems alot of people are having issues with the volume control. Emotiva has come out with a fix for the problem and people are sending there units back in to get it. i was put on the reserve list back in November and have yet to hear anything from them. im thinking they are waiting to get this issue sorted out before they continue shipping again.

I was on the reserve list and recently was advised that they will ship in February 15th. With the volume control issue I will wait a little while longer to be sure the fix is correcting the problem. Still it is a good value, assuming no other problems show up.

thanks for your input folks - i have been searching & haven't found much in the way of user reviews (mostly just back & forth about about features, etc.). but apparently this is b/c so few have shipped so far. i did pick up on the volume issue - & also some complaints about bass levels(?).

i was thinking about starting with one of these - though the wyred4sound dac2 looks very tempting too (but in an entirely different price league).

i think a reviewer in stereophile gave it a thumbnail sketch review as a best new product. but you are right in observing it is new and there are some questions/issues so far.

saw the reference in stereophile but it seemed to be referring mainly to the array of features offered (rather than SQ) & in fact, it wasn't clear whether the guy had actually heard one.

as with many of the more complicated Emotiva products it does seem as if there are initial bugs. i hope they resolve them more effectively than they did with their ht processor!