I am assuming you mean the Emotiva XMC-1 (the XPS-1 is a phono preamp).
Based on those two choices, I would go with Anthem AVM-60. It is going to have much better sound quality and resolution. Anthem uses a true linear power supply.
Emotiva uses a switching power supply (even though it has a toroidal transformer). It also uses some rather slow op amps, so sound quality is somewhat closed in and constrained.
Since Anthem uses its own "ARC" anthem room correction, it does not have to pay licensing fees to Dirac (which does bump up the core cost of the Emotiva). That is, if you like room correction.