How does compare to other amps near it's price range? Trying the UPA 500 but it's not powerful enough for my speakers
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I'm not sure what your speakers are rated for, but if they are 250 watts and under this would be fine.
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It has more than enough power to run 5 speakers with ease. Mine powers a full set of polk lsi15, lsic center and monitor 70 as side surrounds. Plenty of power, runs cool solid as a rock, tremendous build quality.
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The upa 500 is rated at 80W/channel vs 200 for the XPA which can be a whole world of difference. My previous amp was a NAD 955 @ 100W per channel x 5 and is a fairly highly regarded amp at close to twice the price of the XPA. The additional power in the Emotiva made a huge difference with my PSB Synchrony 1Bs. It's a steal at that price. You'd have to go up significantly expense wise to equal it's performance, maybe to an Outlaw Audio which is a better amp but, again, double the price.
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I am using XPA-5 to drive my 3 Triad Silver/4 LCR's and 2 Silver/4 surrounds - all of these speakers are 4 ohm nominal - but reasonably efficient as I recall - and there are no issues with this amp driving those to reference level.
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I'm quite happy with mine, I running 5 Martin Logan and a sub woofer and I think it's very good for the price. I'm not sure what kind of speakers you have
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This amp is more than sufficient and is actually to powerful. So make sure you keep it turned down to protect your speakers from blowing. I have this amp running 2 15 hifonic brutis speakers and it is still almost to much power. I have a 8 ferit cap and it still makes my lights flicker a little bit when it's really pulling.
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I smoked 4 boss audio subwoofers in a week on a 600 watt amp, they are junk do not buy them. The Hi Fonics are by far way better. If you want a good amp for a good price that will push these hard go with a 3000 watt crunch amp Lanzar is another good one that people do not know about that makes great cheaper amps. You go with either of those two amps in the 3000 watt range for a mono, and your going to thump hard as anything out there short of L7S. I had two of these with a 3000 watt crunch and lanzar bridged down to 1ohm and they were insane.
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Hi Tyrus,I think the amp is more than sufficient. Please start at low volume otherwise it may damage the speakers. I have used this amp with a couple of speakers between 300W to 500W and it performs well.Thanks and I hope this helpsFernando
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My comment is that I agree that underpowered receivers or amps will easily damage your speakers. I learned the hard way when I was a teenager 25 years ago and the receivers I used then blew tweeters. Then I bought a Carver amp and felt the difference. At this time, I have Carver amps driving L/R/C/Sub Channels on my system. It is safer to have a 250RMS Watts per channel amp than a 40watt receiver.
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I'm no expert but I recommend Pioneer's 1300W amp. It will sound amazing with that!
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Read the name. Lol. No, pyle is a pile ive had 3 of this amp and nothing good came of it. Now, a good amp is the Power Acoustik Demon series monoblock amp. It pushes either 2000w, 4000w, or 6000w depending on which amp u want and its relatively cheap. Look it up and you tell me what you think. Also remember: you get what you pay for.
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I'd stick with the same. Some amplifiers can operate "unsafely" I.e. overheating or crappy sound, if they can't produce the right impedance per whatever ohm each speaker has. I'd start from ground up if you're wanting bigger better sound
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Kevin, I could not give you a professional opinion on that question because I've made comparison to my Yamaha speakers using a 450 watt amp. I have a 2000 watt VocoPro amp that I may test with them this weekend to give you an ideal of how I think they sound. Is that okay?
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This a very small amp. Having said that, Im 99% sure you can listen to music at medium volume, just dont expect to hear any significant low frequencies. I think the "Dayton Audio APA150" is a better option for this speakers.
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I with Jill, spend a few hundred on a modern amp and you'll be happy. I'm running an older Yamaha amp that I spent a few hundred on about 5 years ago and it will turn up very loud. If you are looking for BOOM in your system buy one of the BIC 12" powered subwoofers as well. In my opinion a powered subwoofer is a must.
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there is no set standard for rating watts, I have sold audio gear for many years, if you go to onkyo's web page and look at specs, you will see different numbers for different ohms and frequency, all manufactures do this. Very expensive amps will double there power into four ohms, but these are in the thousands of dollar range. The size of the power supply is what really makes a difference. If your speaker package is under the $2000 price range this should be fine, I bought this for my sons system.
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Yeah, i have a 500 but only run it at 250 because if i turn it up any higher it drones out all the mid and treble in my pickup. 300 watts it pleanty for this sub, cant go wrong with JL Audio!
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This amp puts out about 900 RMS and the speakers you have puts out 400 RMS a piece so it should sound pretty good just make sure you have the amp load at 2ohms or it will keep shutting off
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I would suggest something. Class d and atleast 2000w rms im running a hifonics 1700.1 and sounds pretty good but im thinking about upgrading my amp
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Hi Tyrus, I think the amp is more than sufficient. Please start at low volume otherwise it may damage the speakers. I have used this amp with a couple of speakers between 300W to 500W and it performs well. Thanks and I hope this helps Fernando
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I am running a Yamaha RXV-871 (similar to your Onkyo), a UPA-200,and UPA-500. I am also running large floor standing polk audio rti-a7's similar to yours. What I can tell you is that while my yamaha on its own was doing the job it was working vary hard to do so. The large speakers are vary demanding. The Emotiva amps are easily achieving that level of performance and more with little to no effort. As for weather or not it will rock your room; I haven't had the nerve to push it that far. Although I suspect the speakers will give up before the amps do!!!