Looking for an amp...or two or four...

I'd also add to the list Emotiva's MPS-2 and Outlaw's Model 7700 if you want a single chassis setup solution.

I have the Emotiva UPA-7 and am very happy with the quality of build and sound. With a 30 day no questions return policy from Emotiva and Outlaw, its hard to beat the prices of either.

I looked at the digital power amps but decided on the classic A/B amp. I guess I'm traditional when it comes to powering speakers. YMMV of course.

Good luck on your search. Post often and tell us what you find.

You may want to post questions to the Emotiva thread to Emo X series amps to get ideas and suggestions for your needs.

You may want to post information about your speaker specs. Makes it easier than searching the web to get that info.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=781208

Your speakers aren't too hard to drive so I would guess mono blocks won't be required. Listening habits would be what determines how much power you require, but as we all know, more is better.

For me the one amp solution is all I could consider, both because of room size and available power without having to rewire the LR. I may trade up to the MPS-2 somewhere down the road if I switch speakers but they are easy to drive 8 ohm loads, the surrounds are 4 ohm Emotiva ERD-1, just orderer, I should get them next week sometime.


Another place you may want to check out is the Emotiva Lounge. You'll find mostly fans of Emotiva, but I guess I'm one as well. I like what works and mine works quite well. Heres the link. Register and ask all the questions you like:

http://emotivalounge.proboards54.com/

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Oh, and heres the thread on Outlaw amps:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...ht=outlaw+amps

Not sure how much money you are willing spend, your choices seem to have it all over the map, I have a D-Sonic 2000-5, the IcePower sounds downright perfect to me and I also prefer the cool efficient nature of the this amp its hardly even warm to the touch, and best of all no fan noise. I also have a Rotel 1095, and although it sounds just fine to me, that thing gets so hot in my cabinet. that amp is being replaced in a week with a Wyred4Sound Class D amp like the D-sonic.

I am a huge advocate for Class D, but I also own Pro-Amps which sound very very good and offer tons of power for anyones needs, but I hate the fan noise.

You should have a read in this thread, which covers that whole thought process as to why don't more people use pro amps. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1112626

Yamaha makes a great pro amp and in normal home use the fans don't even come on...

The lower powered class D amps have less fan noise. I don't think the average home user needs 500wpc or more. Not that they won't buy em, but how many speakers can actually utilize that much power?

Can anyone recommend a multi channel class D amp with 'reasonable' power levels? Like 200wpc x5 or x7. I haven't seen any traipsing around ebay.

Knucklehead90, check out the Wyred 4 Sound multichannel Class D amps. They can configure one pretty much any way you'd want it and for a great price. They have a thread here on AVS Forum in the Amps section.

For less money D-Sonic will offer the same thing as Wyred4Sound, whether or not there is a sonic difference will remain to be seen. I will know soon enough, but I love my D-Sonic, and I can only imagine the Wyred will be just as good or better.....

If money is no object, I prefer to have all my power bundled up into a nice neet package then all those pro amps stacked up, running seperately, and also lets not forget the occasional ground loop hums or the worst yet... having to deal with switching all the amps on through a 12v trigger, which they don't have. These are just things to think about, not that they can't be overcome, they can but just a bit more effort is required.


Hey Mike, where abouts are you in Wisconsin.... I'm just north of Milwaukee and have a Subwoofer shootout coming up at the end of the month if your interested in checking some things out...

id search all over for used citation 5.1 or 7.1 amps. they are tanks and im certain they dont make them like that anymore.

North Side baby..... Grafton

I have both of my systems for HT but I do a ton of music listening.

Sub shootout will be Feb 28th, will be mostly really heavy hitter DIY subs, but a couple commercial units....

My systems.....

Great Room
Paradigm Studio's .v4 100's, CC-690 20's
Pioneer Elite 81 (Temp pre-amp)
Rotel 1095 - (changing to Wyred4Sound Class D 7 channel 500x3 250x4 next week)
3 Mal-X powered by an EP2500 and 2- QSC 2502's
SMS-1
Panny Pro 50" Plasma

Bedroom
Paradigm Sig S4's .v1, C3, ADP-590's
JL F112
Pioneer Elite 91 (Temp pre-amp)
D-Sonic 2000-5 Class D 500x3 250x2

Also have 5 15" TC-Sounds drivers sealed that I have been testing.