RE: Emotive - yeah or nah

Posted by ro7939 (D) on February 17, 2012 at 14:35:21

In Reply to: RE: Emotive - yeah or nah posted by shodulik on February 17, 2012 at 09:06:58:

It cost me about $50 to return the Emotiva XPA-3. Endless power, yes...first amp with so much clean power that the main speaker output exceeded the sub system capacity, causing the sub amp to turn off.

Sound quality was inverse, hurting my wife's ears so badly that she could stand it for only a few seconds. The leading edge transients were awful and pain inducing. I let it burn in for at least 48 hours playing music.

Based on Kalman Rubinson's favorable comment I can only presume either Emotiva sent him a ringer (upgraded well above and beyond a stock off-the-shelf piece), or his um, um, ears weren't working so well that week. When manufacturers supply kit to reviewers it is always unknown and unknowable whether the supplied kit is identical to or upgraded from stock.

Compared to my French YBA-designed Asian-built Audio Refinement Multi-3, the Emotiva XPA was about worthless, not even in the ballpark parking lot. Horrid.

Maybe the Emotiva XPA might gel with a system suffering from extreme softness/fuzziness. Emotiva said the UPA series is more tame on top, but it would have to be a completely different species to work in my system.

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Topic - Emotive - yeah or nah - mjcmt 16:26:36 02/08/12 (26)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 21:28:29 02/11/12 (8)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - shodulik 09:06:58 02/17/12 (7)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 14:35:21 02/17/12 (6)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - slbenz 10:17:25 02/18/12 (5)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 10:48:20 02/18/12 (4)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - earwaxxer 12:23:13 02/18/12 (3)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 14:38:42 02/18/12 (1)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ejman 16:12:54 02/18/12 (0)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 12:34:28 02/18/12 (0)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - Jerry P 12:38:07 02/09/12 (0)

Enthusiastic yeah. - Mr. Dick Hertz 07:42:35 02/09/12 (3)

RE: Enthusiastic yeah. - mjcmt 08:59:04 02/09/12 (2)

RE: Enthusiastic yeah. - Mr. Dick Hertz 13:52:24 02/09/12 (1)

RE: Enthusiastic yeah. - mjcmt 14:08:32 02/09/12 (0)

Emotiva, not to be confused with Emotive Audio (nt) - Jack G 06:23:13 02/09/12 (1)

RE: Emotiva, not to be confused with Emotive Audio (nt) - mjcmt 06:40:06 02/09/12 (0)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - Utley1 18:52:12 02/08/12 (0)

Thumbs up... - E-Stat 17:07:41 02/08/12 (8)

RE: Thumbs up... - mjcmt 18:08:06 02/08/12 (5)

Yes - E-Stat 06:03:24 02/09/12 (4)

RE: Yes - mjcmt 06:39:11 02/09/12 (3)

Thumbs Up says it all - Ozzie 10:00:08 02/09/12 (2)

Thanks - mjcmt 11:22:05 02/09/12 (1)

Let us know - Ozzie 18:53:53 02/11/12 (0)

RE: Thumbs up... - stereo5 18:07:36 02/08/12 (1)

RE: Thumbs up... - hodad 12:09:33 02/09/12 (0)

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RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 14:35:21 02/17/12 (6)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - slbenz 10:17:25 02/18/12 (5)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 10:48:20 02/18/12 (4)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - earwaxxer 12:23:13 02/18/12 (3)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 14:38:42 02/18/12 (1)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ejman 16:12:54 02/18/12 (0)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah - ro7939 12:34:28 02/18/12 (0)

RE: Emotive - yeah or nah

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