I have had many Emotiva and Sherbourn products over the years and have enjoyed every one of them for the price paid. I still use an xda-2 dac and a Sherborne CD-1 as my player. It’s the one CD player that I have had that I do not feel the need to run through the dac. I also have a Sherborn Pre-1 preamp which is basically a Emotiva Usp-1 without the bass crossover but does have excellent XLR outputs. The remotes for all of them are some of the best made I’ve used. i had a Xpa-200 amp as well as the Sherbourn 2-160. Both were solid performers. Say what you want but you generally have to spend a lot more than the cost of the Emotiva gear to actually see dramatic differences in sound quality.
