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RE: Help! Emotiva XPA-2 vs. Adcom 5500 with MMG's?

I think you are describing the sound of the Adcom 5500. I would match it with a tube preamp. There are plenty of old 80s-90s tube preamps you can get for well under $1K, Then you can have the parts upgraded as budget allows. Go to Salvatore's tube pre recommendations for ideas. About half the old preamp models he recommends are from Bruce Moore and Falkland (MFA) who still builds his basic Dual Mono design first made for Audible Illusions before 1980.

Designs have not changed much these 40 years, but parts have improved substantially.

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