Greetings from San Jose CA | The Emotiva Lounge

zenithblue67bug
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Greetings from San Jose CA Jul 6, 2013 4:22:06 GMT -5

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Post by zenithblue67bug on Jul 6, 2013 4:22:06 GMT -5

Well technically Milpitas CA, but born and raised and lived most of my life in San Jose...Milpitas being a small town just to the North of San Jose.

I have spent the last several weeks lurking on this forum...something I do when joining new sites in order to get a feel for it, and I figured it was about time to join and say hello.

I have owned an xpa-5 for almost 6 months now and I am so glad I found emotiva. The products and the pricing are outstanding. I also did a 30 day trial of a usp-1 and thoroughly enjoyed it, but just could not justify keeping it at the time.

garbulky
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Greetings from San Jose CA Jul 6, 2013 5:24:51 GMT -5

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Post by garbulky on Jul 6, 2013 5:24:51 GMT -5

Welcome! What kind of setup are you running?

Transport: Sony UBP-X700 UHD-Blu ray player spdif
PC using Musiland Digital Times WASAPI via BNC connection -
DAC: DC-1->XLR XPA-1 , RCA->Basx A-100
CD: Denon DCD 600 PCM 61 DAC. RCA
Amp: XPA-1 gen 2 using XLR connections.
Speakers: Axiom Audio m80 V3, Sennheisser HD700 headphones.
two pairs 12 guage each bi-wire speaker cables per monoblock
Headphone amp: Basx A-100 (INCREDIBLE VALUE!!)

Other equipment: Sennheiser HD700. LG65ef9500

zenithblue67bug
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Greetings from San Jose CA Jul 6, 2013 7:52:37 GMT -5 garbulky likes this

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Post by zenithblue67bug on Jul 6, 2013 7:52:37 GMT -5

Jul 6, 2013 5:24:51 GMT -5 garbulky said:

Welcome! What kind of setup are you running?

nothing too fancy, just an onkyo 809 and an xpa-5 pushing some older polk monitors in a 5 channel set up, and a couple of psw505 subs. I use a denon 1611 blu-ray player for blu-rays and sacd's.

Been runnin this set up for a while now, especially the speakers (surely my weakest link lol) and am planning a speaker upgrade by the end of the year. I'm currently in love with kef Q series...not super high end, but they fit my budget and sound pretty darned good.