Emotiva amplifiers review/experience?

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.

Just about any gear of this sort will last quite a while. Eventually, caps will start to go, sooner if less expensive parts are used. But caps are easy to replace and all amps need to have it done at some point, albeit it's going to happen years later in a Bryston.

Critical precision resistors can also drift, but this is true in any equipment. They too can be replaced.

All of which is to say that I wouldn't worry about longevity. I wouldn't worry about resale price, either, if they're good now, they will be good in the future, and so they'll retain reasonable value. And they're popular enough that they won't be an orphan brand that nobody has ever heard of and potential buyers don't recognize.

To me, the real question is whether you want to spend significantly more for a relatively small increase in sound quality. I don't think there's any way to answer that short of listening yourself. But I can say that the reaction to their sound quality has generally been enthusiastic. Typical would be these are amazingly good for the money, though not quite the equal of (insert super-expensive amp here). It's my personal assessment as well. Another way to put it is that if you're familiar with the sound of large, modern class AB bipolar amps of conventional design, that's pretty much it. But the big amp grain is very light and I actually find it a sweet amp, with just that very minor grain to separate them from amps that have mostly lower-order harmonic distortion.

Because they have a money-back guarantee, if you decide to return them, you'll be out only shipping cost (for a very heavy package) and the work of unpacking and packing them (these things are heavy!).

Should even consider the Spa 1 mono blocks with 1000 watts at 4 Ohms for Maggie 1.7.