Another Emotiva in the house
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| Posted on August 28, 2015 at 08:35:21 | ||
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I recently did some switching around of system components, retired a few and just purchased an Emotiva mini-X A-100 amp for use in with the in house system. Previously, I was using an old Kenwood receiver left over from the previous homeowners. That now lives in the garage driving some vintage Advents. I found that its having a tuner and phono input were more valuable there. The in house system is driven solely by the office server which can access the digital library along with internet radio and XM so having a single input on the amp is no problem. While it has less power (still plenty), it is arguably better sounding than the old Kenwood and runs cooler which works great hidden away in a cabinet. It has a thermally activated fan and goes into standby when not in use for a while. It was only $219 delivered complete with a five year warranty.  
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| RE: Another Emotiva in the house, posted on August 28, 2015 at 09:47:17 | |
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Understand it was never intended to use with the electrostats in either the main or HT system, but rather the in house system which drives in ceiling speakers (mostly GRS 8" full rangers) in the office, living room, dining room, den and patio by pool. The decision was more of a utilitarian one for that purpose. It is said to use the same topology as the larger amps (with some Gen2 refinements) and I can comment on the older XPA-5 in the HT. While not as refined in terms of detail retrieval or soundstage as a previous Threshold Stasis I owned or the VTL mono amps, it is a clean sounding amp with plenty of power. Its sins are more of omission and has no trouble driving the 1+1s to pretty loud levels. Kal liked one he heard a while back. :) I would put it in the high bang-for-buck category while delivering satisfactory performance.
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