The OFFICIAL Emotiva Speaker Owner's thread! - Page 5

Most companies would try to sell you the speakers anyway. It does not surprise me that they recommended you buy elsewhere.

Try AV123. They have some very good speakers too. The link to the 5.0 setup is at a very good price. The center, of which I own one, usually cost about half of what they are charging for this setup. If you have the room for towers, these would sound very good, and they are all 8 ohm loads.

Anyone know why all links to AV123 is being blocked by AVS forums? Puzzling.

Emotiva is a standup company by any measure. They could have told you to try the speakers with your receiver but they see ahead more than just the sale in hand. If you had problems then you would be leaning away from Emotiva for other products and Dann, Lonnie, and the crew there understand that.

The main reason their speakers are 4 ohm is because their amps can and do take advantage of this by having substantial increases in power into 4 ohms. It doesn't work for everyone though, and they seem to be ok with this.

I use an SVS sub and actually had their speakers on my short list before deciding on Emotiva. They are another great company to buy from and I'm sure you'll be pleased with the service if not the sound. Let us know how everything works out and continue to drop by this thread. Your welcome anytime, owner or not.

Tim

Animo on the lounge got his 6.3 today (he bought it to use as a center with his custom speakers). He will be doing a review with his buddy tonight and posting his impressions and some pictures.

Yes, Emotiva is a standup company and I will definitely be giving them my business and recommending them in the future. I picked up a trio of SVS SCS-01's since this is for about 95% home theater usage (I have RBH surrounds and an eD sub). So far, SVS has been top notch to work with as well.

There have been many issues with av123 recently with regards to defects, delays, and their CEO selling B-stock items on the av123 forums and then not shipping the items for months (if at all).

I decided not to give them a chance (and they definitely have some nice speakers).

I think you are about 2 months behind. Check the date of his first review post about the 6.3.

I probably would have been fine since the ERM-1's do not dip much lower than 4 ohms continuously. But I did not want to have any issues down the road and even the Emotiva tech I spoke to told me I would probably be best to buy 6-8 ohm speakers per Onkyo's recommendations. Trust me, it was a tough call.

But I will be using these speakers exclusively for HT and the SVS SCS01's seem pretty solid as HT speakers.

Emotiva is not affiliated with AV123 and has not been for a long time so what is the point of making this comment?

I don't see that comment as inflammatory.

Your comment on the other hand.......

Well tell me what the point is to bring up such old news as if it was yesterday. They don't do business the same as AV123 and have not been associated with them for some time. He is bringing old school info up as if it is relevant today. So yes I called it inflammatory and I edited my post to keep things on point.

I asked a legitimate question. He answered my question.

It may have been old news to you. To me, it isn't.

I could be wrong, but I'd guess that the main reason their speakers are 4 ohm is because they set out with a design given a set of constraints, tradeoffs, etc, and the result was a 4 ohm speaker. I doubt Emo said "Hey, our amps are decent into 4 ohms, but so are the external amps made by the competition, so lets sell 4 ohm speakers."

-T

I posted my review of the Emo 6.2's over at the Emotiva Lounge (check out the speaker review section, with the heading about a LONG, review). I'm very happy. They replaced a pair of Swans D2.1SE's that I was using for the front left and right because I got tired of waiting for the matching center and surrounds from Swan. If you would like to see the review, here is the link:

http://emotivalounge.proboards.com/i...ay&thread=4859

And regarding the most recent posts above, I would like to add my two cents that Emotiva is a first rate operation!

Emotiva amps have been around alot longer than their speakers. It is a well known fact that they double their power into 4 ohms, are very stable, and sound great doing it. Designing speakers to take advantage of this is a no-brainer.

For the most part, constraints and tradeoffs don't include the ohm load of a speaker because speakers are almost always available in 4 ohm, 8 ohm, single and dual voice coil configurations from a manufacturer. This is what allows a customer/manufacturer such as Emotiva or a DIY'er to build speakers to their specifications using the parts they want. Choices from the supplier allows them this flexibility.

I could be completely wrong as I have been plenty of times in the past but this makes more sense to me. If I am, then my apologies T.

Let me tell you something that happened to me regarding AV123. I was looking at their B-stock speakers when i saw the Onix Xl-s speaker. There was only one . I called them and spoke to Kyle. We talked a bit and i told him that i really wanted another one beacause i wanted to use them for my rear surrounds . He said that he would check the warehouse to see if he had another enclosure and if he did that he would biuld one and sell me the pair for $100.00. Boy was i in luck!! He built another and shipped them to me. i told him that i really needed them by the weekend. which meant he had to biuld it and get it shipped the next day for me to receive them in time. I got them on Friday and I am amazed at how they sound . I still have them on top of my Monitor Audio Rs6's . .I need to get them back to my rears !
Also spoke to them about the problems with their amps in their subs.
They hired a special Engineer to figure out what was going on. and he did.
It was their supplier who tried to save some money with a different company to make the board . They found out the transistors in the chips were failing. they were manu. too thin and would break down. He has since cleared up the problem (has forgiven the suplier) and will soon be sending everyone affected new amps .
Now don't beat me up if i do not have the details exactly right RE : sub amps but i believe i do.
My point is that AV123 is also a standup company who will make it right and Kyle is Outstanding!!

Never saw a follow up review from you regarding your 8.3/6.3 combo, floridapoolboy.
Any comments if you are still reading this thread?

He posted his review on the Emo Lounge. You can read it here.

There are several other reviews of the 8.3s, including mine. Seems these 8.3s are a great hit. I certainly do like them.

Actually, most of them don't. IIRC, only the XPA-1 and XPA-2 will double their output into 4 ohms. Most of the others are a 50-75% increase. IME, only the most expensive and powerful amps do manage to double their power.

But that doesn't change the fact that they are fine amps and do make my 4 ohm speakers sing quite nicely.

+1
You do recall correctly. My UPA-7 does crank out 280wpc in 2 channel, but "only" 185 watts all channels driven. I don't think I'll need more than that.

A new review is up at www.Hometheaterhifi.com. Damn, wish I knew how to post a better link!

Florida try this... type [ url = copy and paste url here] clickable link of your choice [ / url ] just make sure the [ url = ] and [ / url ] are correct and have no spaces then you should be good to go.
Hope that helps.
Something like this,, emo ert 83 test

Much better link, thanks!

Great review. It looks like I'm going to get the same exact set that the reviewer had.
But the sad part is that it looks like I missed out on an extra 10% off sale about a month ago.

Have patience, the life blood of any ID company is "the sale".

Actually the current sale is $100 off and free shipping, which is pretty close to the same as the 25% off with $25 shipping, which came to $1463.20. About 35$ difference.

The site home page still says 10% off speaker packages with free shipping. Am I looking at a cached page? I keep refreshing the page and that offer still keeps showing.

Its the same as I'm seeing. I think Maestro J was looking at a pair of ERTs, not a package.

No, I see the 10% off speaker packages which is what I'm after. I was under the impression that they were having a spring sale where they offered 10% add'l off but it ended some time ago? Am I wrong?

No, in the spring sale everything was 10% off, not just the speakers. But there was not an additional 10%.

Okay, thanks for clarifying.