Well, I'm still going to be 5.1 for a while. I won't go 7.1 until I get a dedicated room. I'm coming from a first generation Encore that I bought used from it's original owner. It was about 2.5 years old, had the old display, first remote and first version software. So I'll see huge improvements not considering the 8 channels. If I had a newer Ovation or Ovation +, I might wait also. But at the price I got the Encore for + the price of the upgrade, I'm still getting an Ovation 8 for less than the price of a new Encore so I went ahead and jumped on it. As I had time to listen to the Encore for 2 weeks before I sent it in, I'll sure post my results here when I get it back. Hopefully some others will chime in also.
EAD 8 channel upgrade?
Anyone here getting the EAD 8 channel upgrade? I sent my Encore in last Fri., and I know they are already working on some units. Final software testing is done. If anyone is getting the upgrade and you receive your unit back, I would appreciate any thoughts being posted here. I just hope we don't have to go through several software revisions before we get one that is not buggy.