DACs_Lover
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With this measurement, I will stay away from the brand.
Problems started with rail switching.I have my XPA-1 gen 2 - which uses a torroid rather than a switching supply and doesn't have rail switching. I love it. Sounds fantastic to me. Best amp I've heard to date. Able to produce powerful dynamics during listening. I doubt its distortion figures are much better though. It probably also has a large 60hz bump.
Oh really. Distortion is a big deal.This Amp has very low noise, It has high distortion, distortion is a much les straight Black/White Audible/transparent Pass/fail metric than noise. And I'm not saying it is not audible, I believe it is, I care, but many may not. I personally have a few vintage receiver in B systems, or lent to my friends that sound very good to my ears and are in this ballpark of distortion, or worse. The only thing I can say is that there are not as High fidelity, finesse, realism, impact, are all subjective terms that don't relate to measurments, neither it relates to fidelity.
XLS fans aren't an audible issue, tho. I have several.Don't those have a fan tough?
Massive power and a tube sound, all for a bargain price.So high distortion, so bad multitone result. I am used to get distortions like this from tube amplifiers, not from solid state .
Emotiva's KeithL has already commented in two messages:It is not "tube sound", just poor distortion performance. I'm curious to see what Emotiva has to say, but one does have to wonder about their 0.1% THD spec and if this is typical performance.
Wow, that guy is truly a clown. He works for Emotiva, saying that the numbers aren't everything? This is class D PA amplifier level of performance, which is 180 degrees opposite what Emotiva claims about this amplifier. So Amir is the bad one of showing that Emotiva's marketing speak holds no value? If any of these problems are audible doesn't even matter, if I buy an amplifier on the promise of getting high fidelity performance and I don't get it I'm pissed.Emotiva's KeithL has already commented in two messages:
https://emotivalounge.proboards.com/thread/58999/emotiva-review-stereo-power-amplifier
Someone, please educate (i.e., explain to) me. Thanks.There is no benefit to having a differential power amplifier
Someone, please educate (i.e., explain to) me. Thanks.
Emotiva's KeithL has already commented in two messages:
https://emotivalounge.proboards.com/thread/58999/emotiva-review-stereo-power-amplifier
Yes a fan. Emotiva needs a lobotomy.Don't those have a fan tough?
I once knew somebody who had DNR (do not resuscitate) tattooed on his chest…I note that you didn't remove the "Please remove before use" sticker. I mean, c'mon, they said "please." Yet I suspect you nevertheless cut the warning tags of sofa cushions. Some people are just ornery.
Maybe that would make a racy t-shirt for the party-going crowd. Or a very disturbing tatoo. I'll stick with my friend's suggestion of "Not to be used as a personal floatation device."
Most of the snake-oil peddlers of the audio market seem to routinely ‘reimagine’ physics itself.Perhaps, they should move to "reimagine image high-end". We all know that things go the hell in a handbasket when they are reimagined
- Rich