Parasound A23+ vs. Emotiva XPA-DR2

@big_greg.......................It isn’t snobbery. I owned an  Emotiva DAC at one time and speak from experience. I had their dac and it was so bright (it shouldn’t have been as it had an Analog Device chip). It was nails on a chalkboard and I couldn’t listen to it for more than 10 minutes before leaving the room. I resorted to listening in our kitchen with the stereo in the living room. The bright blue display would burn the retinas out of your eyes. I looked inside and the power transformer was so tiny, no wonder it sounded so bad. You gets what you pay for.

I thought this thread was about amps, not DACs.  So basically you're saying you have no experience with the subject at hand, but know that the Emotiva amps are junk somehow.

@big_greg..............................Perhaps I should have been clearer. Yes, I had one of their DAC’s and hated it. A buddy had a pair of their big amps he bought new 2 years ago. He asked me to listen to his system as he said it sounded hard and sterile.

I went to his house with some of the music I use to demo equipment and it sounded like S***. He had the amps running constantly for 4 months and he said the sound never smoothed out. It sounded like my DAC did, bright, sterile and hard. Not musical at all. He traded them in and took a bath on them but was glad to get rid of them. 

If you believe they are high end then there is no point discussing this with you.   I have read many stories where people had them and when they moved on to something else, realized how bad they really were.  I also don’t like the fact that once the equipment is out of warranty, Emotiva won’t repair it.  I know of no other audio company that does that.  

I'm not sure where I said they were "high end". Probably because I didn't. 

To br3098, the Parasound A23+ is not an integrated amp. It is a standalone two channel amplifier. I am surprised no one caught his reply and that error...