Emotiva is really losing credibility. They tanked with TacT. They tanked with Sherbourn, and now they've tanked with Carver. They said last summer, that was it. No more sales. Everybody can pay full price because our prices are so good. And now they've just started another sale! These guys keep changing their minds so often you can't count on what they say, and the "no sales" promise now just looks like a marketing ploy to get people to buy instead of waiting for the sale price.
They really need to simplify their business and shore up what they're having challenges with instead of complicating the path to profits by all these failed investments.
How about investing in a processor that isn't buggy? And releasing it on time, without pre-release price increases as with the XMC.