WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD?

@kota1 that sounds nice. Man. Enjoy it all. I been lucky in this hobby but your setup sounds like it can do it all on demand. That’s a good place to be. 

@dayglow 

The issue is you can NOT turn an Emotiva amp into an Esoteric amplifier even with proper room acoustics

I think you missed the main point, take an Esoteric amplifier and stick it in a bad room and you should have just bought the Emotiva instead, you can't fix acoustics with an amp, sorry.

I will take a great room with a pair of XPA HC-1 Emotiva monoblocks ($1800 for a pair) over a bad room with a $$$$ amp any day, all day, with pleasure.

Now if I can have a good room AND a $$$$ amp that is totally different 🤩

@kota1 i will say this. Having a great room helps tremendously but a really great amp in a bad room is still gonna perform well. If it is a great amp. Great amps don’t need perfect room acoustics they just don’t. It would help but you still gonna get a great sound. 

Adding even a few well placed and sized panels increased my enjoyment of my current setup for far less than any $5000 power cable, $3000 usb cable, $10000 set of speaker wires or $500 fuse ever could. 
 

@kota1 

I wasnt calling you Nepoleon.😂