JW, Can you expand on what you didn't like about the XPA-5?

carbon summit:

JW, Can you expand on what you didn't like about the XPA-5?

Please do, I am looking at them to drive my heritage (KHorns, Heresy, and planned La Scalas)

Love my xpa-3. It's powering my front section. Adding an xpa-2 soon.

Bigdnfay1:

Love my xpa-3. It's powering my front section. Adding an xpa-2 soon.

Is there an advantage to xpa-3/xpa-2 combo vs xpa-5 other than the extra 50 wpc on the xpa-2 ?

 To me it boils down to budget.

XPA -5 200 wpc   799.00

or

xpa 2 and xpa 3    1,300.00

 I noticed the xpa-2 was considerably noisier than the others, though I'm not sure the difference would be noticable.

Having the extra power supply VA with separates might be nice also.

Separates would fill up a rack and look cool 

waiting for a response on a question i asked about the kg's i came upon this thread.

xpa5 and klipsch is like ammo and a gun, you need it to make an impact.

ive had the rb-5's connected to an onkyo when the onkyo died. i heard about emotiva and gave them a try.

wow!!you will not be dissapointed..i feel like my rb-5's are towers now..

 , try their forums..http://emotivalounge.proboards.com/

Venaka, you can't go wrong with good clean power. Glad you like it. Me too.

the xpa-5 back panel labels the outputs...I purchased an onkyo 1007 that does 9.2 ss. I am interested in sending the front five channels to the xpa-5 and just having the back four powered by the 1007. It shouldn't matter if I hook the front wides up to the xpa-5 outputs that are labeled surround, right?...as long as the inputs are coming in from the front wide outputs on my receiver...I have four f3s up front and a c3 and four s3 in the back.

the outputs are not designed for particular channels but just labeled for convenience, right?

mistermoravec:

the outputs are not designed for particular channels but just labeled for convenience, right?

That's right all the Emotiva inputs/outputs are the same.

thanks, I'll probably be picking one of these up once I get everything set up

If you're looking for a good price/performance ratio, you should look into pro-amps.

I've had piles of amps,Rotel,ATI,Parasound,Adcom,BK,Carver,Outlaw etc..all good amps.Only the Parasound actually sounded better than the Emotiva,but it hummed slightly,for the money and a warranty Emotiva cannot be beat,only my opinion.

Fish,

  What is the big difference in sound between Outlaw and Emotiva?  I currently have an Outlaw 750 and been looking at the Emotiva XPA-5 as a replacement.

James