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My Parasound A21 review and VS Emotiva XPA

l bought the Parasound halo a21 and the differences of improvement in the sound quality are just unreal, it's like too good to be true, before the parasound i had an Emotiva XPA and after listened to the differences btw the emo and the parasound i got to the conclusion that emotiva made my speakers sounded so bad, the sound quality is night and day differences, I'm was shocked!! It's just unbelievable, to give you a better hint of what I'm talking about, the emotiva is a Honda and the Parasound is a mercedez Benz s63 AMG, or Toyota vs Ferrari lol. I can't believe the sound just can get that good.

Emotiva is not High End they not even close to what high end sounds like, they are good products but never can consider high end, but they claim to be high end, for the price you can get a good Mid-fi sound, but they are out of the high end league, that's a true statement. it's not an opinion, It's what it's. when i demo the parasound i put it side by side with 10,000$ and 12,000 dollars amplifiers and the parasound just sounded as good as those super expensive amps.

The emotiva was my first amplifier so that's why i wrote a review on amazon saying that Emotiva was a truly High end Amp with a consumer price tag LOL, what the Hell i was thinking OMG i was soooooo wrong.

I was only getting 20% of my sonus faber veneres with the emotiva, now I believe I'm getting their full potential 100%, I believed the hype of the emotiva for a while, I was a believer but now i know emotiva is just a good mid-fi amp, nothing more!! If you looking for the best sound as possible please don't get the emotiva, emotiva is not even close to high end, you will be disappointed!! The parasound is the best AMP you can get for the money, i believe that you can spent the double of the money and won't get this kind of performance, Halo is the best Bang for your Buck and i finally found the product that i want to use forever.

to get a better understanding of what i'm talking about, let's say Parasound vs krell is like mercedez benz S Class AMG vs roll royce!!! all depends your budget and how much money you want to spent, but me personally i'm gonna stick with the parasound halo forever.

i use the Cars Example cuz i don't have no words to describe the sound of my system with the halo LOL.

the part that i was even more impressive is with movies, since the Denon X4000 receiver is running the center and surrounds i didn't expect so much differences in the sound quality in the Movie department, but the movies sound nigh and day differences also, but i still need the halo A51 to finish the full amplification department, i'm gonna save up for the A51 cuz i want the same sound quality in the surrounds and center channel, but for now i'm so happy with the performance and soundstage i got from the A21.

I'm very very happy cuz this past saturday i went to the high end show and they were demo the Devialet amps that sounded so good, but the parasound sounds better to me, i can't believe i can get 20,000 dollars performance for 2,500$, THIS IS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE!!! but it's true.
brownsugar_ny
213runnin
914 posts
 
In going back and re-reading you comment, it is clear that whatever meaning you were trying to convey was muddled in regards to you "distributor" vs your "local A/V", but whatever.  Since you are hoping to become an Emotiva dealer, one must assume that you are a dealer/retailer or work for one. And you are excited about Emotiva.  Again, I hope you get a good margin out of them.

I'm still puzzled at your comments on how many different amps you own, or have owned?  I guess you were comparing the Emotiva to your old amps by memory?  Either way, good for you on finding something else that you like, as me I suspect you'll see that the emperor has no clothes within two years.  Unlike you I suppose, the Emotiva amp I purchased was my second audio amp ever.  It didn't sound any better than an entry level Adcom amp I had, but it went louder.


cutlr7
7 posts
 
Having owned both Parasound and currently owning Emotiva XPR-1s.....I am very satisfied in my decision to move there.   In fact, there is a very well known audio reviewer who swapped out his JC-1s to move to XPR-1s and said that for a fraction of the price he gets as good of sound compared to the $5k JC-1s at a price of $1750(XPR-1 new price).......
213runnin
914 posts
 
Well that's great, except Emotiva did their usual behaviour and retired the XPR line some years ago now.  No one can buy them.  They've done this with line after line, amp after amp and product after product.

Why would they retire the XPR line.  Any ideas?
snoopy72
24 posts
 
" Well that's great, except Emotiva did their usual behaviour and retired the XPR line some years ago now.  No one can buy them.  They've done this with line after line, amp after amp and product after product. "
You are so right! 
auxinput
2,920 posts
 

I believe that the biggest reason the XPR series was discontinued was due to weight and cost of shipping.  The XPR had to be shipped via truck services on a pallet.  It was too heavy for standard UPS (although it appears FedEx will accept these).  The other reason, I believe, is cost to manufacturer and service.  The XPR internal design has a bunch of spaghetti wires plugged in all sorts of places and it's very difficult and cumbersome to disassemble for servicing.

Emotiva has moved to a modular approach with their Gen 3 amps, which allows them a very generic platform to build a "X" channel amplifier (just install however many board channels that the customer wants).  It also makes servicing very easy.  The change to switching power supply has cut the weight down significantly, saving huge costs on shipping.

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