|
|
Post by brutiarti on Jan 16, 2020 23:29:17 GMT -5
I have a brand new XPA-5 Gen 3. Traded in my Gen 1 due to an issue with an intermittent fault. Decided on getting a new amp instead of fixing it. In the short time I’ve had to audition, I can tell you that the new amp sounds better to me than the original. There is nothing cheap sounding about this design. My question is why would you get the same brand? Unless you see it as disposable |
|
cawgijoe
Emo VIPs 
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
Posts: 5,035
|
Post by cawgijoe on Jan 16, 2020 23:38:09 GMT -5
I have a brand new XPA-5 Gen 3. Traded in my Gen 1 due to an issue with an intermittent fault. Decided on getting a new amp instead of fixing it. In the short time I’ve had to audition, I can tell you that the new amp sounds better to me than the original. There is nothing cheap sounding about this design. My question is why would you get the same brand? Unless you see it as disposable I looked at other brands. Too expensive for what I wanted. The only amp that was somewhat in the ballpark was an Outlaw Audio. I don’t consider Emotiva amps disposable. I know that any electronic product can fail no matter the manufacturer and the other products I’ve purchased from Emotiva have been trouble free. |
|
|
|
Post by leonski on Jan 16, 2020 23:42:53 GMT -5
Yeah, kind of like it takes more than a hammer and saw to start building a great house. Amplifiers need more than the Poindexter things about them. The instruments and testing go so far. The sound is why you do it. Kind of also like is that house really a home. Which is why I told a buddy of mine don't bother designing and building your amplifier. It will piss you off no end, and you will never be satisfied. Easier to get one where someone else did the leg work. SMPS are noisy utlra sonically but there is no way in hell you are going to manage that easily. That is B.S.! To keep it from interfering with the upper octaves of the limits of hearing is engineering greatness. No less. That is why while SMPS and other more juicy new tech are great, they are far from perfect. But give a couple of years. There will be more converts than not as your channel count goes up, or if you need that efficiency and space and heat, or all the above. Many examples of 'perfect' stuff, or at least Really, Really GOOD stuff which came and went in the blink of an eye. Good sales followed within months by a brisk and falling value used market is the give-away. And Keith? You crack me up. But not exactly YOU, but rather the following that wanted the AP Test Data for whatever the amp of the month was. Now you are saying that specs are not all THAT. I've been saying for years that specs are 'advisory'. And should be taken as a whole. Some specs interact so that one might be to the detrement of another. In keeping with speaker reactance? Noting that a speaker / amp DO or DO NOT get along without mentioning reactance and the amps 'capability' doesn't do the reader a whole lot of good. Education is critical and somebody who wants to know WHY should take the time to learn a few basics. I don't know all in the 'group' but you can bet that a company like United Sound which is the Umbrella group for Denon, Marantz and 5 other companies darn well BETTER own a complete lab for measurements AND diagnostics. |
|
|
|
Post by davidl81 on Jan 17, 2020 8:53:16 GMT -5
I have a brand new XPA-5 Gen 3. Traded in my Gen 1 due to an issue with an intermittent fault. Decided on getting a new amp instead of fixing it. In the short time I’ve had to audition, I can tell you that the new amp sounds better to me than the original. There is nothing cheap sounding about this design. My question is why would you get the same brand? Unless you see it as disposable If one of my Emotiva amps failed after say 8 years of use (I'm guessing that's about the age of his Gen 1) I would not have an issue buying another one. Now if I had two or three go bad that would change things. But by and large we don't hear very many issues on this board about Emotiva amp failures (at least them failing any more than any other brand). |
|
|
|
Post by leonski on Jan 18, 2020 1:11:56 GMT -5
My friend has my 1970s Kenwood integrated still going fine.
An amp should last 20 years. At least if used regularly. Letting it sit on a shelf can cut into lifetime.
|
|
