Emotiva Story.

comfortablycurt

Chapter 1 was over a long time ago my friend. We're probably onto chapter 12 or so now.

Sometime I need to go back through and reread this whole thread...the topic of discussion has changed quite a few times...lol

heiney9

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Chapter 1 was over a long time ago my friend. We're probably onto chapter 12 or so now.

Sometime I need to go back through and reread this whole thread...the topic of discussion has changed quite a few times...lol

Hence my comment about some getting it and some not......he/she doesn't get it yet :rolleyes:

daboyz

Someday we'll all look back and laugh about this.....................

heiney9

daboyz wrote: »

Someday we'll all look back and laugh about this.....................

Actually I've been laughing quite a bit already for quite sometime......each new player that posts in this thread is waaaayyyy too serious. Pushing buttons is soooooooo easy! I worry about people sometimes who take themselves so seriously. Times are tough.....have some fun

H9

comfortablycurt

daboyz wrote: »

Someday we'll all look back and laugh about this.....................

heiney9 wrote: »

Actually I've been laughing quite a bit already for quite sometime......each new player that posts in this thread is waaaayyyy too serious. Pushing buttons is soooooooo easy! I worry about people sometimes who take themselves so seriously. Times are tough.....have some fun

H9

x2

For some reason people keep thinking that this is a thread about Emotiva.

It's actually about PIE and it's many uses. I think Club Polk needs a section dedicated to discussion about Pie.

mmadden28

mmadden28 wrote: »

Non Audio deal of the day!!!!
Fake **** 97% off at Amazon.

mmadden28 wrote: »

Or even more appropriate for this thread....Liquid A$$ (rated 5 stars :cool: )

Still on sale-don't miss it....:rolleyes:

shack

I thought we had digressed to muffins

I know what I'm having for breakfast in the morning!

comfortablycurt

shack wrote: »

I thought we had digressed to muffins

I know what I'm having for breakfast in the morning!

mm...Muffins...

Anyone ever had the Otis Spunkmyer muffins? Those are the best...

I've gotta run to the gas station in a little bit, and I just might have to pick one of those up.:)

mmadden28

Toast anyone?

vmaxer

:Da hot blueberry muffin with butter melted on it.................:D:D

Disc Jockey

It was the best darn Boston Cream Pie I've ever had. Bar none.

mmadden28

Ha, no this is all the reading material that can be handled at Club Polk.

bartimus

mmadden28 wrote: »

Toast anyone?

Now that right there is funny I dont care who you are!!!!!!:eek::eek::eek:

mrbigbluelight

Disc Jockey wrote: »

It was the best darn Boston Cream Pie I've ever had. Bar none.

I googled "Boston cream pie" once, and I ...... saw things ...... I'm never going to Boston !!

xcapri79 wrote: »

The books I read generally have more than two or three pages per chapter. Twenty-nine pages make for a nice chapter in a nice novel. I thought we were a little more upscale here on Club Polk. Get it?

Dam .... I wish I had known we had a founding member of Mensa here ! I'm going to have to call "BS", though, on that 29 pages per chapter in a nice novel thing. No way ! That's almost a whole ensyklopeedia !!!

mmadden28 wrote: »

Ha, no this is all the reading material that can be handled at Club Polk.
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Ahhh ..... "Goofus" and "Gallant". The Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde of Children's Literature.


NOTE: While I'm at it, if anybody's within armshot of Danger Boy, could you give him a good clobber alongside the head ? Just tell 'em , "This is from Captain Janeway.". Thanks. I appreciate the effort.


:cool:

moe

ben62670 wrote: »

Well my buddy Jerry has an EMO 5 channel amp. He is using 2 channels to drive a pair of tweeters only. The tweeters are 4ohms with an RE of 2.9 The EMO goes into protection driving them to high volumes. My Adcom's never skipped a beat. I can't recommend Emo's 5 channel amps for 4ohm speakers if they can't handle driving a pair of tweeters properly:( LSI owners should consider used Adcom or Parasound for amps.

I had an ADCOM 5500,it clipped often,I sold it,my xpa2 never clips,don't know about the xpa5.

Dawgfish

I think what a person likes best is an "eye of the beholder, YMMV" thing. I own other amps from Marsh, several Adcoms, Emotiva, and a Carver as a recent pickup. I actually have listened to other amps and I have a basis of comparison. I like the sound of my XPA-3's as good or better than any of the other amps. I have tried several amps with my front towers, but I keep coming back to the XPA-3 as the best sounding running my mids and tweets on my RTi12s (I am bi-amping the 12s now, I have an Adcom GFA-555 powereing the subs). I get a bigger and sweeter soundstage with the XPA than any of my other amps. Seriously I do. There are plenty of good amps out there. I try to keep an open mind though and see if something actually does sound better or not. Listen and buy what you like best. I happen to like my Emotiva, others do not I'm not offended by that. I know what sounds best to me with my system, and I'll stick with it until I find something that sounds better to me. Others will continue to run what sounds good to them. It's really as simple as that.

shack

The muffin I had for breakfast was EXCELLENT! It was the lemon poppy seed muffin I had been craving. Thanks to whomever mentioned muffins.

Ricardo...this is still all your fault.

Lowell_M

Dawgfish wrote: »

I happen to like my Emotiva, others do not I'm not offended by that.

Well... Get offended, damn it.... otherwise this thread might end.

You should see the Muffins here in Taiwan...

edit... I'm in Taiwan for work and have a rockin Sony HTIB in my hotel room

Ricardo

shack wrote: »

Ricardo...this is still all your fault.

So sorry. To show how much I regret this, I will punish myself. I will not eat pie or muffins for one whole day.

tonyb

If there was ever an example of warrented death,this thread is it.

"No,Mr.Bond,I expect you to die"

Lowell_M

Ricardo wrote: »

So sorry. To show how much I regret this, I will punish myself. I will not eat pie or muffins for one whole day.

Wait a minute. That doesn't sound like much punishment. I thought you didn't eat pie and muffins anyway? You like cake.

Lowell_M

Dawgfish wrote: »

I think what a person likes best is an "eye of the beholder, YMMV" thing. I own other amps from Marsh, several Adcoms, Emotiva, and a Carver as a recent pickup. I actually have listened to other amps and I have a basis of comparison. I like the sound of my XPA-3's as good or better than any of the other amps. I have tried several amps with my front towers, but I keep coming back to the XPA-3 as the best sounding running my mids and tweets on my RTi12s (I am bi-amping the 12s now, I have an Adcom GFA-555 powereing the subs). I get a bigger and sweeter soundstage with the XPA than any of my other amps. Seriously I do. There are plenty of good amps out there. I try to keep an open mind though and see if something actually does sound better or not. Listen and buy what you like best. I happen to like my Emotiva, others do not I'm not offended by that. I know what sounds best to me with my system, and I'll stick with it until I find something that sounds better to me. Others will continue to run what sounds good to them. It's really as simple as that.

By the way... That's is what this hobby should be all about is experiencing different gear and knowing what you like. Everybody's ears are different. Otherwise we'd all have Bose. It's the people with the Emo's the End All attitude that keep this thread going.

Toolfan66

a_mattison wrote: »

By the way... That's is what this hobby should be all about is experiencing different gear and knowing what you like. Everybody's ears are different. Otherwise we'd all have Bose. It's the people with the Emo's the End All attitude that keep this thread going.

Hey i am an exception to this:p, I have an XPA-3 w/o the attitude. I know there is better out there, and i will soon be tring something else. with that said my emo is keeping my system going till then. :cool:

Dawgfish

a_mattison wrote: »

By the way... That's is what this hobby should be all about is experiencing different gear and knowing what you like. Everybody's ears are different. Otherwise we'd all have Bose. It's the people with the Emo's the End All attitude that keep this thread going.

I couldn't agree with you more. I love tinkering with things and
finding what sounds best to me. I can never leave my system alone because I'm always playing with different cables, interconnects, speaker placement, set-up, etc and that makes it great because there is something always to look forward to.

I have been a die-hard fly fisherman and guide for many years now. In the fyfishing world, everybody has their favorites just like in the audio world. I know a lot of respected fisherman, colleagues, and fellow guides who like things totally different from me, but I trust in their abilities and capabilities totally. They know what they are doing, they just like a different action and set-up than I do. That doesn't make me disrespect their knowledge and abilities in the least bit, it's just diferent and everybody has their own tastes.

I don't pretend that Emotiva is the best stuff out there. I like it, and for what I paid for it, I am very well satisfied with it. I would love to own some Krell, Classe, Mark Levinson, Manley, McIntosh, etc, but I just can't afford it or justify it. I'll just keep on looking and hope something comes around at an obscenely good deal. Until then, I'll stick to what I can afford.

BTW, I love cake. pie, and muffins! Ricardo this is still all your fault,and Orvis is the Bose of the flyfishing world LOL.

ben62670

moe wrote: »

I had an ADCOM 5500,it clipped often,I sold it,my xpa2 never clips,don't know about the xpa5.

I don't really consider much of the newer Adcom's to be that great. I like the older 5xx amps, 7300, 7400, 7500, 5800, and 5802. Probably left out a few. I have never clipped an Adcom, but I have made the distortion lights flicker a few times. The XPA-2 seems to be holding its own, but the lower end 5 channel can't keep up using just 2 of the channels to drive tweeters. By the on-site ratings you would think there would be no problem. I do like the sound, and the sound stage is very good, but again I just can't recommend it from what I have seen for speakers that dip low in impedance.

heiney9

shack wrote: »

The muffin I had for breakfast was EXCELLENT! It was the lemon poppy seed muffin I had been craving. Thanks to whomever mentioned muffins.

Ricardo...this is still all your fault.

You're welcome!...........that Ricardo is a troublemaker.

ben62670

885...

Kex

Damn it. I fell for it again: all the rave reviews, just like Emotiva, and then I got disappointed ... all over again! I don't know who's writing these reviews or how they listen to anything honestly. They must be getting paid with free gear or something. Anyway, long story short: I listened to all the comments and went out and bought both pie and muffins, hoping to do an A/B blind comparison test. Well ... first off ... I couldn't even figure out how nor where to hook them up. Nanners worked best for the speakers, I suppose, 'coz you can just poke 'em right in there. The ICs from the NAD to the muffins and pie were a lot more tricky, however. I had trouble getting them to stay put. I guess I must have been hooking them up wrong. Anyway ... I turned on the NAD and it blew up, so I was pretty dang furious at this point. In my rage, I just ate all the muffins and pie :mad:.

Sorry everyone ... I just could not help myself ... and yes ... you are right: I am completely stark raving mad.

Dawgfish

Kex wrote: »

Damn it. I fell for it again: all the rave reviews, just like Emotiva, and then I got disappointed ... all over again! I don't know who's writing these reviews or how they listen to anything honestly. They must be getting paid with free gear or something. Anyway, long story short: I listened to all the comments and went out and bought both pie and muffins, hoping to do an A/B blind comparison test. Well ... first off ... I couldn't even figure out how nor where to hook them up. Nanners worked best for the speakers, I suppose, 'coz you can just poke 'em right in there. The ICs from the NAD to the muffins and pie were a lot more tricky, however. I had trouble getting them to stay put. I guess I must have been hooking them up wrong. Anyway ... I turned on the NAD and it blew up, so I was pretty dang furious at this point. In my rage, I just ate all the muffins and pie :mad:.

Sorry everyone ... I just could not help myself ... and yes ... you are right: I am completely stark raving mad.

See there Kex, at least something good came out of it! Cake, pie, and nanners I think I saw an adult film that went along something like that.

887......yeah baby, let's take this thing to 1000.

Ben, sorry I missed your call yesterday. I was at work.......again. I'll give you a shout sometime this week. Hope all is well.

vmaxer

okay, where did everyone go?? Just had some PIE,,,,or was it Tequila??? Oh well, just got the Parasound HCA-1000A and I am starting to compare it to the Emo XPA-3...having fun anyway!!