Emotiva Audio?!?

[Frank Harvey]

American amplification is usually about brute power rather than musicality and finesse. They use their stuff in bigger rooms with bigger speakers and expect lots of bass. Most American spekers would be too much in the average English home.

Like I said, for a given price point, a manufacturer has to choose between power, sound quality, and build quality. You can't have everything in the budget sector! Some products will play loud and sound good, but their build quality is naff and they're unreliable. Other stuff might be built like a tank and play loud, but not sound great. Others might sound great, be built like a tank, but not be a powerhouse. When you're talking about a £1,000 item or less, I don't think you can have all three.....

 

[Frank Harvey]

If they're happy to stick to selling direct, I hope they have a good marketing department.

 

[Anonymous]

The good thing is this amp has massive power, very good sound quality, and build quality. And if you cant believe it hear it first!!

Since you have never heard of seen it on what is your opinion based?

 

[Frank Harvey]

Everything I've had the pleasure of playing with for the last 30 years.

 

[wireman]

FrankHarveyHiFi:American amplification is usually about brute power rather than musicality and finesse. They use their stuff in bigger rooms with bigger speakers and expect lots of bass. Most American spekers would be too much in the average English home.
That's seems a bit of a generalisation to me: you can't tar them all with the same brush.

FrankHarveyHiFi:Like I said, for a given price point, a manufacturer has to choose between power, sound quality, and build quality. You can't have everything in the budget sector! Some products will play loud and sound good, but their build quality is naff and they're unreliable. Other stuff might be built like a tank and play loud, but not sound great. Others might sound great, be built like a tank, but not be a powerhouse. When you're talking about a £1,000 item or less, I don't think you can have all three.....
Point taken. But there isn't the traditional 20% distributors mark-up or the 40% retailers mark-up being added on top. And they do offer a 5 year guarantee.

 

[Anonymous]

lol ,if there was 60% commission on like other brands ,it would cost more than a 1000 pounds

so, than in your opinion it would be a good amp for you

 

[wireman]

N803:lol if there was 60% commission on like other brands ,it would cost more than a 1000 pounds
Exactly. If everybody followed this route to market, retailers wouldn't have a business.

 

[Frank Harvey]

wireman:That's seems a bit of a generalisation to me: you can't tar them all with the same brush.

It is a bit of a generalisation, but it's pretty true, until you hit a certain price point.

Point taken. But there isn't the traditional 20% distributors mark-up or the 40% retailers mark-up being added on top. And they do offer a 5 year guarantee.

Is that what retailers make in the US?

 

[Anonymous]

have you even heard and seen anything of emotiva?

judging without a statement , are you a retailer?

 

[Frank Harvey]

You've only posted on this thread - are you a manufacturer?

 

[Anonymous]

lol

Im a happy owner from Belgium and i just gave my opinion on this amp,

you give your opinion thats its not a very good amp cause its cheaper on what based?

for me this is a strong competitor in the league of higher priced amps

ive compared rotel rb1080 and xpa 2 with b&w N804

and you?

 

[Frank Harvey]

So did you order from the states? How did you find out about them?

 

[Anonymous]

i ordered it from the states,communication was good, had waited 5 or 6 days and recieved it,

service was fine to me

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, this thread has descended into America-bashing in my absence!

 

[Frank Harvey]

Maybe you've misread the thread then?

 

[RCduck7]

N803:

lol

Im a happy owner from Belgium and i just gave my opinion on this amp,

you give your opinion thats its not a very good amp cause its cheaper on what based?

for me this is a strong competitor in the league of higher priced amps

ive compared rotel rb1080 and xpa 2 with b&w N804

and you?

Hello, i'm from belgium to and i'm on the preorder list for the umc-1 processor.

A hifi friend i know has Rotel ICE power and a 1080 before that, also running on B&W 802. By the way, he is also very intrested in Emotiva since he stumbled on their website.

Myself i'm running a chinese Dussun V8i for the front speakers and a Dussun D9 for the other channels.

From wich part of Belgium are you? Happy to hear from you.

 

[Anonymous]

wow...I think I've seen some emtovia users from here...so I am not alone...

RCduck7...I would like to see your feedback when you have your umc setup...

I'm not a big fan on HT...but I am looking for preamp...probably usp1...for my xpa2...as I mention before...I'm so suprise what I hear from the xpa2 along with erc1...I'm very happy so far...

 

[Anonymous]

Well I'm ordering the XPA-5 and UMC-1 and will try them out with the ATCs before they are relegated to the living room. If I like them I'll buy the big guns for the Home Cinema room, if not I'll keep looking. Thus, I can't really lose. And if I absolutely HATE them (which I doubt; it's probably, at worst, that I won't like them a lot), I'll just return them and I'll only have wasted a few hundred on shipping.

So, yeah. I'll post my opinions when I get them (unless I'm gonna get hit with massive customs in which case I'll cancel the order). Cheers!

 

[Anonymous]

Hello RCduck7

"From wich part of Belgium are you? Happy to hear from you."

Im from Limburg

Beta4Me

custums isnt a problem, fedex deals with that, you get invoice afterwards

 

[ElectroMan]

FrankHarveyHiFi:
ElectroMan: In view of the controversy over the high-end Lexicon Blu-ray player, maybe we should be applauding Emotiva for producing what looks to be well-specified kit for the money!

To be fair, Lexicon, along with many other companies, have never made their own source component from the ground up - they make AV processors and power amplifiers. They've always based their DVD players on other manufacturers players, it's just that this time they didn't 'do enough'. So let's not tar "high end" with the same brush eh? If people ignored high end they'd be msing out on some amazing products, but that's up to them.

I've always said manufacturers can only do so much for a given budget, and this will apply to Emotiva as well. To me, it looks like it's on par with the likes of Rotel, but I suppose we'll never know if a review sample isn't made available.

It was meant as a joke really, I'm certainly not tarring all so-called high end products with any brush!

But let's be honest, the vast majority of music lovers (and/or equipment freaks) do miss out on high end products, as they can't afford them and never come across them except, perhaps, in magazines.

 

[Anonymous]

(article from another owner, which i copied here and topic gets closed for by a .....!!!)

Audiophiles, are very excited about this amp for many reasons. First of all lets be real and not compare this piece of hardware to mass market or even "Mid fi" components. This amp is a serious piece of high end audiophile grade component! Don't confuse the animals. The reasons why people such as my self are excited about it are as follows: Massive power, High quality power supply, 1% resisters, huge power reserves, ie, massive capistence, damping factor, slew rate. great cosmetics, and most importantly, insaine price to performance ratio!! This and all thier amps are just Beasts, and rank up there with alot of extreemly expensive amplifiers on the market. I have been in the audiophile hobby for over 30 years, and have spent ungodly amounts of money on many on the so called best amps in the world, and although they were wonderful, they certainly were not worth selling my car to buy them! I am excited because this is one of the only companies that you can find right now that is selling a component of this caliber for such a crazy amount of money. If you guys compare apples to apples, which you are not, then there is absolutly no question that these amps are probably the best dollar to performance components on the High end market today!!

 

[Andrew Everard]

The more he says, the more it sounds like an ad...

 

[Anonymous]

yeah right, an ad offcourse

sponsers and retailers are on your side , not mine,

 

[Andrew Everard]

N803:Audiophiles, are very excited about this amp for many reasons.

N803:insaine price to performance
ratio!!

N803:rank up there with
alot of extreemly expensive amplifiers on the market.

N803:one of
the only companies that you can find right now that is selling a
component of this caliber for such a crazy amount of money.

N803:these amps are probably the best dollar to performance
components on the High end market today!!

Hmmm... Hyperbole, American spelling, 'dollar to performance' - no further questions, your honour...

 

[Anonymous]

only the last post i did is from another owner ,nothing wrong with that,it is maybe written bit overexcited but the essence is what counts and there i agree with

Seems people with very expensive gear feel offended,also retailers and ...., that explaines alot

nice reason to close topic though, keep up the (good?) work !!

cheers