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Emotiva xpa 2 gen 2 power amp

Looking for this amp ...emotive xpa 2 gen 2. Is as good as all the reviews have at it's price point. Or should buy the gen3 amps that now out. Thanks


Wayne

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edlchiang62
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You can purchase the Adcom GFA-555se for $1104 frm the Adcom USA distributor.
rhljazz
1,255 posts
 
The BasX A300 amp and PT 100 preamp received editors choice awards from the UK magazine Hi Fi Choice.  Associated equipment for the review were Cambridge CXC transport, Chord Hugo dac, and ATC SCM 40 speakers.  So, the supporting cast was well above the price range of the Emotiva pairing which should lay bare any faults from the amps.
The test concluded with "a new pre-power amp price benchmark, the most convincing evocation of affordable high-end that I've yet encountered and as a result an unequivocal great buy". 
Authored by David Vivian.

I myself have no personal experience with these amps.  Just relaying some info generally not accessible in the US.
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arcticdeth
1,572 posts
 
I liked them quite a bit, but their aesthetics are not my thing.
the sound was ok, I just liked the Sunfire better when I heard it. 


I have a pair on sale.  Gen 1 limited editions. 
Check the popular auction site for pics and price

they are extremely nice!


johnto
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Had a pair of 1L mono blocks for my Maggie 1.7 and amps kept blowing finally got rid of them and settled on a Parasound 2.1 integrated which has had no problem with the speakers. Big improvements in sound and staging. The emos are rated high watt but they won’t give you the current capacity which is more important.
auxinput
2,920 posts
 

The 1L will deliver a good amount of watts, but the transformer is somewhat light at only 450VA.  The Parasound integrated looks to have a much larger transformer, but not as much capacitance.  It could be a number of reasons why the Emotiva 1L could not supply the current.

The Emotiva amps stock are quite bright and harsh, although I do not have experience with Gen 3 and their new switching power supply (also with no fuse).  If you absolutely need to have that much power and have a limited budget, the Emotiva amps can sound nice when you convert the fuses to Isoclean or Furutech (or a combination of).

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