Why are EMC-1 s being dumped on market?

Its just a timing thing. Seen it many times over the years with a few different products. It's quaility unit. Worth the prices advertised in most of the classifieds.

Possibly the new version of the EMC1 has something to do with it (due out "this Spring", but not available widely in U.S. now). The new version will supposedly upsample to 24/192, and have some other improvements (e.g. power supply), but cost almost $6K. However, current EMC1 models will be upgradeable (I think this is done in U.S.) for about $1K, so there's no need for all owners to "dump". I haven't heard the new EMC1, but have auditioned the current model extensively at home. It is an extremely musical player, and IMHO no one should worry about "gettting old technology" by buying this nice current model. If you can find a good used one, and want a CDP that just lets you enjoy music, pick up an EMC1 and step back from the frantic digital rat-race.

people are selling a lot of high end cd players for SACD players

As I understand things, if you see a lot of Brand X CD players in use in rooms, it may be because Brand X offered to supply these players, not because all of the exhbitors personally prefer Brand X. Thus certain lines tend to look "hot" for one show and then vanish altogether for the next. There have been shows where it seemed you saw ARC gear in every other room. There was hardly any to be seen in New York.

I didn't mean to imply, having seen a bunch at the show, that it means that they must therefore be wonderful. (And if I gave that impression, which reading back I very well might have, it wasn't my intent). I'd wanted to give one a listen for a while and had never actually seen one in person, so they kept catching my eye. They all sounded fine to me but, in the course of wandering in and out of rooms with all sorts of different gear, I'm not nearly sophisticated enough to even guess what contributaion (or impairment) it may have lent to any given setup. More than anything, I was impressed by how cool they looked. Really nice. Pretty superficial, eh? But, what the heck, I went for eye candy as much as ear candy.