In which case, perhaps next time, Nedim, you might reserve your adulation for a new, untried arranger until AFTER you get it and give it a serious workout...

Oh, and you MIGHT consider cutting a little more slack to those of us capable of spotting the 'gotchas' BEFORE it comes out from simply reading about the specs...

In the light of how you feel now, do you consider some of your rabid and borderline insulting comments from a recent months perhaps just a BIT premature? Imagine, if you will, some jumped up fanboy starts insulting YOU, now, for expressing the same reservations about the Audya now, that we had weeks (months) ago? I mean, SURELY the Audya HAS to be the greatest, yada yada yada? ALL it's flaws will doubtless be fixed (despite the same flaws remaining unfixed on SD-1 etc.), how DARE you imply it is no good, blabber blabber blabber...

This is a great forum, and all that, but coming in guns blazing can only end in you shooting your own foot off if you aren't cautious. Personally, I tend to view ALL manufacturer generated hype as dubious at best, and so far, have rarely been proved wrong! Jumping in and 'defending' a manufacturer for their hype and marketing exaggeration rarely turns out to be a good move.

Perhaps now you can move over to the "realists'" side of the aisle, rather than the "optimists'"... you'll find plenty of company