Received My A-100 MINI-X Today

[tony3d]

What a great deal this little gem truly is! I received my A-100 today, and I'm truly blown away with it's
sound quality, and build! Really like the black finish!

This thing blow's my little Topping Tri-path amp away. The highs are much more
delicate, more airy sounding. Harshness is completely gone, and the music
emerges from a dead quite background.

With the Topping I noticed listener fatigue would creep in after about 20-30 minutes of listening at moderate
levels. Not with this amp. Had to be the relatively high distortion spec of tri-path amps.

Much punchier amp as well. For $197.00 I have no idea how they do it! I, mean
the build is really good! Absolutely no buzz, or noise. Full volume with no music
playing about 8 inches from my AudioEngine P4 tweeters, I can hear just a faint hiss.
Then again my Topping was very quite as well.

Runs extremely cool for class A/B design. When i get a chance I may hook up a signal generator, and my Scope
to the amp, and see the actual clipping point under a 4ohm load. My AudioEngine's are 4 ohms, so I'm most interested
in that power rating. Works fine with my 12inch Dayton sub through the high Level speaker inputs.

All in all a very nice package indeed!

[Bonzo]

Aug 7, 2015 14:58:09 GMT -5 tony3d said:

What a great deal this little gem truly is! I received my A-100 today, and I'm truly blown away with it's
sound quality, and build! Really like the black finish!

This thing blow's my little Topping Tri-path amp away. The highs are much more
delicate, more airy sounding. Harshness is completely gone, and the music
emerges from a dead quite background.

With the Topping I noticed listener fatigue would creep in after about 20-30 minutes of listening at moderate
levels. Not with this amp. Had to be the relatively high distortion spec of tri-path amps.

Much punchier amp as well. For $197.00 I have no idea how they do it! I, mean
the build is really good! Absolutely no buzz, or noise. Full volume with no music
playing about 8 inches from my AudioEngine P4 tweeters, I can hear just a faint hiss.
Then again my Topping was very quite as well.

Runs extremely cool for class A/B design. When i get a chance I may hook up a signal generator, and my Scope
to the amp, and see the actual clipping point under a 4ohm load. My AudioEngine's are 4 ohms, so I'm most interested
in that power rating. Works fine with my 12inch Dayton sub through the high Level speaker inputs.

All in all a very nice package indeed!

Since you just bought this and it's fresh in your mind, I'm just curious, what was it that led you to buy the Mini-X versus the Fusion Flex? Looks, price, volume knob etc?

I personally don't understand the Emotiva way of doing things sometimes. I don't understand why they have these 2 amps. I find it redundant. I'm not sure why they don't just take the best of the 2 amps (like give the Mini-X 2 inputs with auto switching like the Flex) and make one amp. Personally I'd buy the Mini-X for better looks alone, as well as the rotary volume knob. But having the 2 input thign would make it even nicer.

[tony3d]

I picked the A100 because of the looks, and the rotary volume knob! Really don't like push button volume. Your right though they need to put two or even three inputs on the A100, and a good headphone jack, and it would've perfect! I'd buy that for $280.00!

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The a100 and flex are in my mind maybe Emotiva's best bargin. The case and transformer would cost you almost what you pay for the whole enchilada from Emotiva.

[tony3d]

Aug 7, 2015 16:45:08 GMT -5 @rdperry said:

The a100 and flex are in my mind maybe Emotiva's best bargin. The case and transformer would cost you almost what you pay for the whole enchilada from Emotiva.

Plus the damn thing is simply beautiful!. I know the lamp has to go!

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