Parasound A23+ vs. Emotiva XPA-DR2

The A23+ is a very good integrated amp, but the A21+ is even better.  All the soundstage, detail and clarity of the A23+ with better punch than the Emotiva.  IMO

I've owned Emotiva monoblocks and have an XPA-5 gen 2 in my bedroom system powering the center and surround speakers. I've owned the A23 (not +). I think there's some snobbery in this thread. The Emotiva are not as bad nor is the Parasound as great as some are claiming. The difference between them isn't huge, but I'd go for the Parasound, it will be more refined. It doesn't look like those speakers are hard to drive? Why do you think you need more power? 

@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.