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Post by bigrak on Sept 5, 2012 0:12:32 GMT -5
I was attaching some speaker cables to the back of my XPA-3 and my ellbow bumped the rca conection and it snapped. it didnt break off and is still connected. I will admit that i have lethal elbows. In high school i broke a couple kids faces on the basketball court. But i lightly tapped it and it snapped. also, When i connect my rca's, there is about an 1\8 of an inch from the end of the cable to the end to the plug. Is that normal with these amps? On every other piece of equipment i have ever used there isn't any gap or its very tiny.
Even though the quality of the connections to me seems a bit poor, i dont expect this to be covered by waranty. I wont have time to call emotivia this week, so i was curious if anyone has broken a connection and how it was handled. And if anuone knows if you can upgrade the connections to better plugs without voiding the waranty.
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Post by paintedklown on Sept 5, 2012 0:16:40 GMT -5
I would give them a call and explain the situation. They take very good care of their customers. I sent you a PM as well.
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Post by GreenKiwi on Sept 5, 2012 0:21:39 GMT -5
You might PM Kraemer, he replaced the RCAs on his USP-1.
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Post by villock on Sept 5, 2012 0:23:24 GMT -5
I would give them a call and explain the situation. They take very good care of their customers. I sent you a PM as well. Yes they do I bent 2 on my XPA-5 about a year ago and lets just say Emo took very good care of me. And being the dope I am sometimes, I bent another one about a month ago when I was installing my CMX-2 and CMX-6 on the wall behind my equipment stack Haven't called them yet because I am only using 3 of the channels. Also they sent me the RCA board and I installed it myself, not too difficult.
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Post by wizardofoz on Sept 5, 2012 0:36:41 GMT -5
they can just send you the replacement jack or jacks. I just did some... actually I replaced all the jacks with proper solid ones on all my UMC-1/2 amps and the x-mini too. I also put proper XLR's in there too. The XPA-1's will be next with the XPA-5 then maybe the USP-1 if I really get bored. Finished work ... Replacement of RCA (this is the most important one to fix) and also Neutrik XLR with locking clip. Inside - note the bal to un bal OpAmp ...this is as far as the balanced signals run into the upa-1 and at least the xpa-3/5 probably 2 as well (TBC) This is the RCA, taken apart and the following image a broken one...you can see the issues with this connector. Mini-X A100 before and after UPA-2 before UPA-2 after
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2012 5:33:07 GMT -5
excellent post wizard...!
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Post by bootman on Sept 5, 2012 11:55:06 GMT -5
Hasn't Emotiva moved to using these types of jacks in their new offerings? About how much would you say the cost would be to upgrade existing ones?
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Post by wizardofoz on Sept 5, 2012 11:55:29 GMT -5
I move my cables around quite often so this was a need I had to make sure the connections were strong and reliable. While I haven't yet done the upa binding posts I am considering it. These are also a point of issue for some banana plugs, some unable to insert more than a few mm's. Hope this will get the message back to design teams that skimping here is not value for money.
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Post by bigrak on Sept 7, 2012 13:47:12 GMT -5
Wizzard - Thank you so much for the indepth reply. I was pretty shocked at how easily it broke but after looking at the picture of the breakdown, i can now see why. As long as it doesn't void the waranty, i'm going to install higher quality rca's.
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Post by lumax on Sept 14, 2012 21:27:26 GMT -5
What brand/model of RCAs you used as replacements? Thanks.
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Post by rob80b on Sept 10, 2014 13:02:11 GMT -5
they can just send you the replacement jack or jacks. I know this is an old thread but I just discovered my UPA-1 used for my center channel has the RCA socket broken off as shown above. Funny.... the sound has been intermittent for quiet awhile now and I just assumed it was the UMC-1 having problems, not sure how it happened as nothing has been touched in over a year but obviously it did happen, maybe just the weight of the RCA cable.
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Post by Bonzo on Sept 10, 2014 13:46:56 GMT -5
Wow I have never seen this thread until now. 1 RCA on my XPA-2 Gen 1 has been bent (but working) for some time now. Back when I e-mailed Emotiva about it and they said they would fix it for free under warranty. But I always thought I would need to send the unit back, which is not only a huge hassle, but a chunk of change for all that freight. Now today I read this thread about them sending out the new parts for owners to install themselves. This would be prefect for me and save everyone a bunch to effort and money. I'm fairly handy with things like this so I'm thinking I should be able to do it no problem.
I just e-mailed Emotiva about it and am keeping my fingers crossed.
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 10, 2014 14:12:36 GMT -5
The Tiff like connections are what I see mostly on Emotiva gear for the more robust connection.
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Post by HunTer on Sept 10, 2014 22:55:08 GMT -5
I had almost the same problem long time ago / right channel of my UPA-5 (loosen). I paid $30.00 to someone to fixed at home. Later, it happened again, but on center channel.
Also with my PT-7030 Sherbourn. Fortunately, it has another XLR outs options to be use it.
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Post by AudioHTIT on Sept 10, 2014 23:06:04 GMT -5
They did add Tiffany RCA's to the Gen 2 X series Amps, but still no locking XLR's (though the XSP-1 and XMC-1 did get them), time for all the amps to have them too. If you're going to fix any RCA's follow wizardofoz's lead and use Tiffanys.
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Post by TUGA Audiophile on Sept 11, 2014 7:37:48 GMT -5
Hasn't Emotiva moved to using these types of jacks in their new offerings? About how much would you say the cost would be to upgrade existing ones? +1
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Post by rob80b on Sept 11, 2014 13:16:23 GMT -5
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Post by HunTer on Sept 11, 2014 16:58:25 GMT -5
Yeah, that's the same XLR I also ordered from monoprice. For me, they are great and work very well.
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Post by pedrocols on Sept 11, 2014 19:16:05 GMT -5
Just be careful because I think the XLR connection is hotter (louder) than the RCA IIRC...
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Post by rob80b on Sept 12, 2014 6:57:17 GMT -5
Just be careful because I think the XLR connection is hotter (louder) than the RCA IIRC... No, only if one is going balanced to balanced then there would be a 3dB increase in loudness, 6dB total with a balanced source.
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