Emotiva ERC-1 Buy-In for demo

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Woohooo!

I suppose I'll be able to drag my **** out of the tree for a while.:p

I just got my Acurus L10 today...so good timing.:)

Nice! enjoy Curt!:D:D



Pat.

for people who has reviewd this nice looking product

hows this sound different between erc-1 to ps3 or dvd player?

would 399 worth shelling money for cd player if you have dvd player or ps3 ?

CAN TAMPA POLKIES DEMO THIS PRODUCT IN OCTOBER at "TAMPA POLKIES GATHERING"

It would be nice if we could demo all at once.. ship to me and i will ship back to whoever next on monday after saturday gathering..

how much do i have to pay for the demo? i would like it to be mailed to me few days before gather so i can properly set it up and be ready for the party

LessisNevermore wrote: »

I'm sorry CP, but last call was some time ago. This was never meant to be an open-ended demo, like the cable demos. The only reason we 'paid' for the demo, was to fund the purchase of the player, and a drawing was held-in which Ben won the player and will be receiving it last. He doesn't know how lucky he is, yet...;)

Allright thats ok with me.. no worries and was just asking if we can demo it.. thank u for your time

This player made it to our weekend RAS (Rockford Audio Society) gathering and we put it up against a few benchmarks. Personally I don;t feel reviews from demos will really influence anyone. I will abide by the wishes of those involved to not say anything at this time.

H9

P.s. When I say benchmark, I mean a unit I'm very familiar with

Well...Duell(lessisnevermore) came by my house today and dropped off the ERC-1!:D Duell's a real cool guy! We hung out for an hour or so, and did a bit of comparison against my Cambridge DVD89 universal. We would have did a bit more comparison, but I'd just gotten off of work, and we both had stuff to do. It was cool hanging out with him for a bit though!:)

Here are a few of my impressions of the unit, aside from the sound quality aspects...


First of all...this thing is built like a brick shithouse. A very solid unit...it weighs a lot more than you'd expect it to as well. The extruded aluminum baffle looks beautiful. The silver/gray accents on the corners are a nice touch too. All of the blue LED's look awesome as well. Between the ERC-1, and the 8 or so bright blue LED's on my APC H10 power conditioner, I had a nice little nite light going. Added some really cool ambience when listening to tunes with the lights off and the black lights on. It really sets a nice atmosphere.

The packaging for it is SUPERB! Double boxed, with some nice cushiony, but firm styrofoam cut to the exact shape of the CDP. The styrofoam also has a hard cardboard backing on the top and bottom to reduce flexing. I give Emotiva big props on their packaging job.

The user manual was also MUCH better than the average piece of gear. It was very straightforward, and explained all of the different features in good old, straight forward, easy to understand English. No terribly worded descriptions that take 2 minutes to decipher...lol Props to Emo on the manual...it's much better than all of the gear manuals I've gotten recently.

Another note...the slot loading mechanism.

I thought that I was going to hate this, but I'm actually starting to like it. It's nice for removing discs particularly. The CD slides out just enough so you can get a finger in the center hole, and a thumb on the outer edge.

It still remains to be seen whether I'll like the slot-load in the long run...but it's pretty cool for the time being.



One feature of the ERC-1 that I REALLY like is the A/B feature. It lets you loop a certain section of a track over and over again. This is great for me. A lot of the songs that I learn on guitar, I just learn by ear, listening to them over and over and over again.

When trying to focus on a certain part of the song, it's a pain in the **** to listen through it once, then have to stop and rewind it...listen again, stop, rewind etc. By the time you have it back to the beginning of the passage you've half forgotten what it was that you just figured out...lol

With the A/B feature, you just click the A/B button at the beginning of the passage, and click it again at the end of the passage. It will then infinitely loop that one passage until you tell it to stop.

Then I came to realize that my Cambridge DVD89 universal actually has the same feature, and I just never realized it...:o...lol


One last point...The remote for this thing is BADASS! All extruded aluminum...heavy as hell. If anyone ever breaks into my house I'm reaching for this remote and beating the crap out of them with it...lmao

The remote itself weighs over half a pound...9 ounces to be exact. All extruded aluminum...no cheap plastic here. I tend to play with the batter compartment lids on remotes a lot...the little plastic tabs always end up breaking off after a few years. I know plenty of people have the same problem...lol

Not with this one though. You actually need a small phillips head screw driver to get into the batter compartment.

I like how the buttons on the remote actually "click" when you push them too.

I've already said it...but I've gotta give Emotiva props on the build quality of this thing. Especially when you consider it's price point of $400, this thing is built damn well.

dane_peterson wrote: »

Does that mean I'm next in line? :eek:

I believe so! You're in for a treat!;) I'll let you know when I send it along. I might just decide to keep it though.;) It's looking pretty sexy in my rack...lol

heiney9 wrote: »

This player made it to our weekend RAS (Rockford Audio Society) gathering and we put it up against a few benchmarks. Personally I don;t feel reviews from demos will really influence anyone. I will abide by the wishes of those involved to not say anything at this time.

H9

P.s. When I say benchmark, I mean a unit I'm very familiar with

I'd have to agree with Brock. If everyone else wants to abstain from posting reviews, I'll go along with it though. Personally, I talked to a few of the people who demo'ed it before I did over PM, just to hear their thoughts on it.

It hasn't changed my impressions of it at all. I've heard similar characteristics in some ways, but I've also gotten my own impressions of it as well.


I've only gotten about 4 hours of listening time in...so I've definitely gotta get some more time before I build any real solid impressions of it.




Thanks again, Dane, for taking the time to put all of this together.:D



Also, I haven't tested out Ben's cables yet. I figured I'd listen to the ERC-1 with my own cables( AQ Sidewinders) for the first week or so, to get a feel for the CDP. These Ben's cables are SKINNY! I've seen pictures of them before...I never realized how thin they are. I'm looking forward to seeing how they match up against my AQ's.


edit-Wow, I just wrote a novel there! LOL

Hi everyone! I think it is really cool how you all have rallied to take advantage of the Emotiva offer to demo their ERC-1. Pretty cool company for sure and I like them.

I bought the ERC-1 and spent several weeks trying to determine how to do a proper DIY evaluation of a CD player. You guys are all really supportive of one another but that is not always the case on the AVS forums so I tried really hard to put something together that could be credible to anyone interested in this product.

The bulletin board code on Emotiva is ProBoards and has a slightly different syntax than vbulletin so here is a link for the evalution on the ERC from my experience.

ERC-1 Evaluation

Any constructive feedback that you may have is always appreciated!:)

Speaking of which.... are we almost done so we can unleash our opinions/reviews?

apphd wrote: »

+1 I'm chomping on the bit to post and read the others.
Last I knew Curt had it.

Curt??????

Yup. I have a bad feeling that i'm going to be the odd one out in the bunch of reviews....

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Yes...I've still got it. I'm getting it sent out either tomorrow or Saturday.

Last week was a bad week for the tree business, and it rained about 4 days out of the week...so I was kind of broke this week. It'll be on it's way to Dane either tomorrow or Saturday though.

Rain my ****....... "Birthday Boy":rolleyes: J/K Curt.:D Hope you enjoyed the player.




Pat.

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Yes...I've still got it. I'm getting it sent out either tomorrow or Saturday.

Last week was a bad week for the tree business, and it rained about 4 days out of the week...so I was kind of broke this week. It'll be on it's way to Dane either tomorrow or Saturday though.

Yeh but what great conditions to sit in front of your gear listening to tunes.:)

Really want to see what others impressions were, especially those with higher end gear to compare it to/with.

edit just saw about your hearing problem. So I guess it wasn't "great" conditions after all

comfortablycurt wrote: »

You'd think so, but those 4 days I had an ear infection and was basically deaf in my left ear. That basically made it impossible to do any critical listening.:(

That sucks Curt. Glad your hearings back to normal. Hope you were able to get somewhat of feel for the unit. Im with you guys though, anxious to start hearing some reviews.:D




Pat.

You should be receiving it next week sometime. I got to the post office on Saturday, but made it there just before they closed...so I'm assuming it won't get sent out until Tuesday, due to labor day. You should be receiving it soon though!

concealer404 wrote: »

Where are we at on this beast?

I'm guessing Dane has it by now. Unless someone from USPS decided to keep it for themselves.:p