Emotiva amplifiers review/experience?

While I do not own an Emotiva amp, I do own their XDA-1 DAC and it wounds absolutely wonderful. Build quality is first rate. One of the online reviewing magazines tested their 125wpc 2 channel amp which retails for 299.00. He summed it up by saying it sounded as good as amps costing up to 2,000.00 and if it wasn't sold factory direct, the price would be at LEAST 5 times the price due to marketing, middlemen getting their cuts, etc.

I happen to own an Odyssey amp which is a tremendous value for the money, I sold a 3,000.00 Classe power amp because the Odyssey was light years ahead of it in sound.

FYI, Emotiva gives a 30 day money back warranty if you don't like the amp. It's a no brainer to me.

I can't comment on Emotiva's 2 channel offerings but I do have an Emotiva UPA-7 HT amp. It definitely had more oomph overall than a Sony STR-DG1000 HT Integrated I was using. After making that change I haven't had the desire to get the Emotiva UPA-7 amp out of my system for any other multi-channel amps.

I have set up and used the XPA1 and the XPA2 in a friend of mines system and was quite surprised.I recommend he buy PASS LABS or KRELL but he bought the 2 XPA1monos and 2 XPA2s for the price of one high end 2 channel.All i can say is they sound pretty good lots of power not as clean of sound that you would get out of a big class A amp but a fraction of the cost.I don't know how long they will last the build quality was ok.I think you should stay away from the UPA series.

I have had 2 UPA-1 monoblocks and the USP 1 preamp for a year and half now and they all work fine, in fact I use them with my vintage Original Advents in the TV room and these speakers have never sounded better. As for build quality, they do have a 5 year transferable warranty and although I haven't had to use mine, from what I've read Emotiva seems to be very responsive on warranty issues. I would imagine that with that long (and transferable) warranty they would want to keep their costs low by doing some reasonable QC and build quality

I have owned the now discontinued Emotiva DMR-1 Receiver/Processor for the past three years. Prior to that, I owned an Arcam receiver. I'm very happy with the Emotiva DMR-1. It is a little more dynamic and detailed than the Arcam receiver. I would no hesitate to buy another Emotiva product. Great bang for the buck! The Emotiva prices are ridiculously low.