Emotiva Story.

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.

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.

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.

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 wrote: »

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!!

Great! An actual comparison! Let us know what you think. I heard an HCA-1000A at the beginning of you audio adventure. Will be interesting to see how your impression matches with my fading memory.

mmadden28 wrote: »

I may have missed a few posts and have no time to review right now-please summarize--Who in this thread said(or has that attitude) that Emo is the End All (be all?) ....

I'm not sure anyone had that attitude. I certainly don't. I am just trying to use the knowledge within this group to get the best amp I can for my money. I am new at this so I can't provide an expert opinion on anything. I will report what my thoughts are when I have spent some time comparing the 2 amps I bought... The thought for me is that I can still send the Emo back if that is the best direction to go...

cnh wrote: »

Ok guys,

I've got it, a blind test. Can you tell the difference between pie, cake and muffins if we put a blindfold on you.

Which is which? That ULTIMATE taste test. Can you pass?

cnh

Actually it's a good analogy.......all teh above use the same base ingredients (like audio components) they are just used differently for each recipe (ie, different amp designs and topologies).

I can tell the differences in sweets just like I can tell the differences in audio components and accessories. Not really hard at all.

I had Chocolate Chip cookies tonight for dessert. I wish I had some PIE

hearingimpared wrote: »

It definitely wasn't you.:)

Not sure if your being sarcastic or not, but it definitely was not me. But if somebody seems to think so please quote where I said such a thing.

mmadden28 wrote: »

I may have missed a few posts and have no time to review right now-please summarize--Who in this thread said(or has that attitude) that Emo is the End All (be all?) ....

I'm not sure either. I think it was Shack. He's World Class.

a_mattison wrote:

I'm not sure either. I think it was Shack. He's World Class.

Yeah...That is true.

There was no EMO gear delivered to my house today. I made a call and they said I had not ordered any. I thought that was the case...but just wanted to make sure. They hung up on me again. :rolleyes:

What's this 31 pages over 13k views and "NO SKIN"

a_mattison wrote: »

That's kinda personal...

Why? Is Robbie a relative of yours?:p:

1000 before Friday.

SKsolutions wrote: »

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"This thread already has the maximum number of tags and you are not allowed to edit any existing tags."

lmao! Get with the times...it's been like that for weeks now!!:p

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