Correction: This is not a malaysia product. It is a award winning (noted it is not "What Hifi" Award but Goodsound!) USA speaker. This x-ls Encore is one of the most sought bookshelf speaker in USA due to its performance/price. Google it and you will see what I meant.

They are many happy owners in Kuching, Bintulu and even in Lawas, and of course a number from all over west Malaysia. You can go to CARI for read some reviews from the owner.

If you want to do 5.1, we will have its matching center soon and subwoofer in the coming year.

Because it is not meant to place close to your ear and to the wall. And it is "huge" on table.

You can definitely use it as a desktop speaker (as I saw some of them did) if you can place it behind your desk. It will def sound awesome.

I have spoken to Keith from Emotiva. He told me UMC-200 is faster than UMC-1 in hdmi handshaking and hence the the drop out is minimal (not 0%). I have replaced my UMC-1 hdmi board recently, and I have noticed that the drop out is a shortwhile than my old board.

Definitely, will wait til umc-200 goes down to a good price buy before I commit one. But it is a really good processor on the market right now.

This post has been edited by fx20: Nov 27 2013, 08:39 AM

Yeah, Xmc-1 is triple the price, but does it deliver 3x performance? Maybe because of this they still keep it under development in hope to offer something for its price. To me, umc-200 with 5 monoblock will be my goal for this route. ThenI will go higher with speaker, hopefully open baffle.

This post has been edited by fx20: Nov 27 2013, 09:44 AM