jackfish wrote:

Does this mean that Emotiva is the audiophile value leader?

Does what mean that?

   Nope .

Oh, ok. Perhaps. Good column!

No? It's not the value leader?

   I think most folks that own lower fi gear and feel it sounds great will beleive it's a value leader . Nothing wrong with being enthusiastic about  ones audio gear .

 I often wallow in the sound of my third / garage system , ( Luxman , Cambridge , Paradigm ) . But a hear many smaller system within the audio club we belong to and know that to call my smallest system a value leader would be a bit of a stretch , and although I've liked what I've heard from Emotiva gear I wouldn't say it's the best at it's price point  . Just my opinion , I'm not a qualified reviewer .