Emotiva amplifiers review/experience?

Aren't the Emotiva's cheap Bryston knock-offs? I read that somewhere...

Why would anyone knock off bryston? I mean, if you're going to parrot a big bad power amp design, wouldn't you pick something more worthy of cloning than bryston?
For instance, Krell or Dynaudio or Boulder or Goldmund??
Think, Dave...THINK.

I could think of worse amps to clone.......though i don't believe Emotiva is a clone.

Bryston, eh? I always thought Emotiva was going for a McIntosh vibe. Some of their older model amps even had glowing blue voltage gauges.

As for quality, I'm not sure. I actually own a USP-1 preamp, which so far has been a great piece of equipment--very quiet and linear with good build quality. That said, according to some recent threads on the Emotiva forum, their cd players have literally been going up in flames on people.

I heard back in the beginning of Emotiva that is was Sunfire not Bryston.