XPA-200, 120 or 150 watts @ 8ohms?

[flyimages]

Is the XPA-200, 120 or 150 watts @ 8ohms?  I just received it today, specs on website says 150w @ 8ohms, but I'm looking at the manual that came in the box and specs shows 120w @ 8ohms in picture below.  I tried searching to see if there are different generations, so far I believe there's only 1 gen of the XPA-200.  I have no way of measuring the output from the amp's speaker terminals to verify.  Can anyone clarify?

From actual manual in box:

Power Output

(rated power; THD < 1%):

120 watts / channel; into 8 Ohms; both channels driven.

240 watts / channel; into 4 ohms both channels driven)



From Emotiva's website:

Power Output

(rated power; THD < 1%):

150 watts / channel; into 8 Ohms; both channels driven.

240 watts / channel; into 4 ohms both channels driven)

[frenchyfranky]

On the website page resources for the XPA-200 if you click on the 8 ohms link for audio precision test emotiva.com/resources/media/xpa200/xpa200_8ohms.pdf, you'll see that they test it at 150w, that's why they wrote 150w on their website even if it originally designed for 120w.

[garbulky]

It's probably both... depends on how they measured. I would go with the website

[repeetavx]

I'm surprised. Usually they have a power vs. distortion graph. Instead they just list this:

Generator Level: 1.110 Vrms
Frequency: 1.00000 kHz
Level (9/28/2012 1:32:16 PM)
Ch1 149.5 W
Ch2 150.8 W
Gain (9/28/2012 1:32:16 PM)
Ch1 29.871 dB
Ch2 29.908 dB

Those are measured results.

[bootman]

30W doesn't make a difference anyway.......

[andyadler]

I have an XPA-200 due in this coming Monday. Curious to see how it sounds with my venerable Spicas, compared to my existing C-J MV50 and NAD 2100.

Let us know your impressions!


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