Well, this is my new tuner and I can recommend it. It is an Emotiva UMC-1 Home Theater Processor. They seem to be going for cheap prices on craigslist or ebay.
All I can say is I think it is pretty good. I can listen to it for long stretches. My bug-out system has an Audiolab tuner which has rather spoiled me.
Why does it sound so good? Well, it seems to have a very serious power supply certainly. I even see two transformers inside.
