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Post by andymontes on Aug 21, 2016 8:04:32 GMT -5
After looking around and reading several reviews I decided to try the Emotiva power amplifiers. We don't have any dealers around town (Panama city), and even though I contacted Emotiva I knew it was by my own risk. But after reading so many good reviews I decided to give it a try "at my own risk". And that is what I did, I ordered an XPA-2 Gen 3. By the time I have aMarantzSR5010, KEF Q700 towers, Yamaha YST-SW315 subwoofer, WD MY CLOUD NAS, Samsung BR, Chromecast, Apple TV. I really have no comments on the packaging or any minor issues. A main concern with the Marantz receiver IS how high the volume level is for a certain volume, I mean, you have to go over 70+ vol level to get some loudness. With the. XPA-gen 3 I did got A LOOOOOTTT more music definition, stereo separation, and dynamics, BUT I have the same "loudness" issue as before. Is it suppose to be that way? Regards can you switch over to the db scale... or -db 70+ or 3 oclock on volume is to high.. check cabling .. should never turn avr or receiver that high.. 1 oclock is a lot.. welcome to the nut house.. I have checked, double checked and triple checked the cabling, nothing wrong. It seems like a popular concern among Marantz receivers owners, found several similar comments on the web. It makes no sense to me but they should have a reason for using that type of scale. 👍 |
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Post by srpawski on Aug 21, 2016 11:19:52 GMT -5
Thats interesting. I havent noticed the issue you are talking about and I also have a 5010. I got it in April and love it. The display is hard to read but thats part of the Marantz legacy with the fishbowl eye display. What I have played around with, and you might want to give it a shot, is the channel gain for each of the inputs. My old Denon AVR 991 just had one universal gain adjustment for digital and analog inputs whereas at some point over the last 6 years they migrated to a more user friendly gain adjustment for each input. On the remote you will see the Option button. As you listen to whatever source you are listening to, if you hit that button, you will get not only a gain adjustment, but also tone control, another nice change they made from my old AVR 991 in that if you use dynamic EQ you can also now use the tone adjustment. Before if you used Dynamic EQ you could not also use tone control. I have noticed that using that gain adjustment it will make a dramatic difference in how loud the sources play at lower volumes. I have mine maxed out at +12db on each input and it does play louder at lower volumes. I have my default turn on volume set to 20 and since I adjusted the gain level upwards, I could easily lower the turn on down to 12 or 15 and it matches what 20 used to be when the gain was set to zero. If you want to make the adjustment for all of your input sources, you will need to be viewing the receiver setup menus. What I did to adjust each input was to put my setup menu on screen, and then change the sources I wanted to adjust and hit the option button on the remote and repeated for them all.
Maybe you will be able to get some more loudness by playing with this setting. Enjoy your setup.
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Post by deltadube on Aug 21, 2016 13:37:00 GMT -5
can you switch over to the db scale... or -db 70+ or 3 oclock on volume is to high.. check cabling .. should never turn avr or receiver that high.. 1 oclock is a lot.. welcome to the nut house.. I have checked, double checked and triple checked the cabling, nothing wrong. It seems like a popular concern among Marantz receivers owners, found several similar comments on the web. It makes no sense to me but they should have a reason for using that type of scale. 👍 well maybe save up some money and get the xmc 1 or my fav the xsp 1 for stereo and ht by pass.. the xsp 1 made a big difference in stereo sq over my denon which is similar to Marantz same company.. |
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