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In Reply to: RE: Emotiva is currently posted by ejman on August 13, 2010 at 11:03:07

My pre-amp is next up for upgrade and I would like to try the Emotiva but I like to have tone controls on my pre-amp. Their USP-1 does not have them and from what I am hearing, their soon to be released XSP-1 will not have them either. I had started a thread about this over at the Emo forums. The consensus seems to be to wait and see what the XSP-1 ends up being because they have not posted "official" specs/features just yet. If they don't offer tone controls I will have to go elsewhere because for me that is a deal breaker. I really like the way that Parasound approaches this in their P3. They have tone controls(that can be defeated) but they also provide several inputs that are completely "direct" and outside the tone controls and the bypass circuit. This seems like the most flexible design and should satisfy the most people. So I have decided I will be upgrading my pre-amp but I don't know with what just yet.

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RE: Emotiva is currently - pictureguy 16:03:18 08/13/10 (1)
What the Emo Pre DOES have is bass management well integrated. Hi pass / Lo pass both variable and lo pass with full range out.......
I'd trade the bass control for tone control ANY day of the week.

I'll also bet that the synergy with the Emo amps has to be good.
$ for $, it's probably a pretty good deal.....

Not an owner.....dealer or even a prospective owner......

Too much is never enough
- RE: Emotiva is currently - Joe Mags 17:48:10 08/13/10 (0)
  I can see your points especially about the value for performance part. However, I no longer run a sub so at this point in time the bass management does me no good. I'm really hoping that their new flagship two channel pre (the XSP-1) will have bass and treble controls like their previous generation pre the RSP-2. I was told via email from their sales manager un-officially about two months ago that it will not. I'm hoping that info turns out to be bad.

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