Anthem AVM50V vs: Statement D2v

I went through this same issue - heres the skinny after talking with Anthem direct:

The major diffrence between the D2v and the AVM-50v is the 24bit 192 KHz.

Neither are HDMI 1.4 certified. However, they say if you buy new prior to August 2011 (estimated certified HDMI 1.4 release date) they will send you the HDMI upgrade for free once released.

The D2v has multiple AD 1896 sample rate converters which upsample every channel of digital or analog-DSP input up to 192 kHz (including Dolby Digital and DTS-the D2v is the first pre/pro in the market to do this!) The DACs then do further 128x oversampling to raise the final sample rate to 24.576 MHz.

Cosmetics

Video processing in both units are performed by a Sigma VXP processor

Feature set in both units exactly the same

If Two Channel Stereo or Audio in General isn't your #1 concern, go for the AVM-50v. Anthem states you will not hear much of a difference.

My understanding that in May of this year Anthem will be offering a 1.4 upgrade on al D2v's. I just haven't investigated enough as to if it will be a send in or a in field. And a cost hadn't been established at the time I spoke with them.

Yes I'm told the 1.4 upgrade from a 50 to 50v will be offered and priced between $400~$450...( not sure that fully applies to a D2 vs D2v) ....that is unless you bought one in the last month or so, I think the "free" upgrade to 1.4 option started as of March 1, 2011...but not real sure.