WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD?

@dayglow 

The issue is you can NOT turn an Emotiva amp into an Esoteric amplifier even with proper room acoustics

I think you missed the main point, take an Esoteric amplifier and stick it in a bad room and you should have just bought the Emotiva instead, you can't fix acoustics with an amp, sorry.

I will take a great room with a pair of XPA HC-1 Emotiva monoblocks ($1800 for a pair) over a bad room with a $$$$ amp any day, all day, with pleasure.

Now if I can have a good room AND a $$$$ amp that is totally different 🤩

@kota1 i will say this. Having a great room helps tremendously but a really great amp in a bad room is still gonna perform well. If it is a great amp. Great amps don’t need perfect room acoustics they just don’t. It would help but you still gonna get a great sound. 

Adding even a few well placed and sized panels increased my enjoyment of my current setup for far less than any $5000 power cable, $3000 usb cable, $10000 set of speaker wires or $500 fuse ever could. 
 

@kota1 

I wasnt calling you Nepoleon.😂

@calvinj

I do have an amp that will perform better in a bad room than 99% of the amps out there, its a Martin Logan amp (a speaker company I know) and its called the Forte. Martin Logans parent company is Anthem. It is selling for 60% off right now at $249. It includes ARC room correction and has a built in streamer AND a sub out. If you position the sub and the speakers well and then run ARC it is probably going to sound better than a $$$$ amp in the same room and I guarantee it will measure better. BTW OP, I actually own this amp and have listened to it since that is the topic of this thread:

https://www.martinlogan.com/en/product/forte

Don’t take my word for its chops, here is a review. I use this amp to power my passive rear surround speakers and from the first time I turned it on I was amazed that an amp this inexpensive and small made these speakers sound that good. It also has an RCA in so you can hook up a CDP or a TT:

Review:

"a small affordable unit that is almost too good to be true."

https://hometheaterhifi.com/reviews/amplifier/power-amplifier/martinlogan-forte-amp-review/