Emotiva XPA-2

It's been called a lot of things. A beast. A monster. A gorilla. An abominable snowman on steroids. It's been called names that can't be repeated in this article...and they're all compliments. They're compliments from serious audiophiles in the throes of elation over the discovery of the XPA-2, our new high power 2 channel amplifier.



These are people looking for power, performance and detail. They found what they were looking for in the XPA-2, at a fraction of the price they expected.

Following their discoveries, many lapsed into name-calling, expletives, shouting, wild gesturing...or worse. It makes us proud.

The XPA-2 was designed and built around two specific ideas: Power and finesse.

1. Power. Inside the heavy gauge steel chassis, a massive torroidal transformer pumps 250 watts per channel through 24 high current output devices into 8 ohms, and 500 watts per channel into 4 ohms.

It's power that will wake up your speakers and inject a life into them like you've never heard before.

The kind of power that gives you serious headroom, and total control over your sound.

You'll notice detailed highs and a powerful, tight, extended low end that can take whatever's thrown at it. As one user gleefully commented, 'It's a rock concert in an 80 pound box.'

2. Finesse. Power is nothing without control. The XPA-2 was designed and constructed to be a very transparent/neutral amplifier. There is no 'coloring' of the sound, it's just amplified with a flat response across the entire, extended frequency bandwidth. The 'more' you're hearing in a familiar movie or CD? It's been there all along, finally being revealed to you.

The neutral aspect of the amp, combined with its massive power, opens up the sound stage, bringing greater resolution, detail, imaging and separation to all types of music and movies.

Listen to your jazz open up and breathe like never before. Hear that favorite symphony recording gain a new level of dynamics and sense of tangibility. Feel a part of the action and excitement of movies like never before. And yes, crank up the rock and get lost in it.

Number of Channels: 2

Topology: Fully Discrete, Dual Differential, High Current, Short Signal Path Class A/B

Power output (all channels driven):
500 watts RMS @ 4 ohm (0.1% THD)
250 watts RMS @ 8 ohm (0.1% THD)

Power Band Response: 20 Hz to 20 KHz with less than .05db deviation at rated power

Broadband Frequency Response (-3db), referenced to 1/8 power: 5 Hz to 150 KHz

Amplifier Gain: 32db

Signal to Noise Ratio (S/N) (20KHz bandwidth, A-weighting), referenced to full output: 95db

Input Impedance:
Unbalanced - 47KOhms
Balanced - 51KOhms

Transformer Size: 1200VA

Secondary capacitance: 54,000uF

• Fully protected from all fault conditions

• Soft start circuitry

• External trigger turn on

• Soft touch power switch

• 5RU chassis w/ solid milled aluminum faceplate

• IEC power inlet, 120/230 VAC configurable

• Output design: Triple Darlington with On output stages

• Differential Drive: Dual Differential input

• Types of inputs: Balanced (XLR) and Un-balanced (RCA)

• Type of outputs: Audiophile quality 5 way binding post

• Display type: Digital status indicators

• 17” W x 7.75” H x 19” D

• Weight - 75 lbs (89 lbs boxed)

* Specifications subject to change without notice.

Additional notes: Glass epoxy pc boards, 1% resistors, metal film capacitors, soft start circuitry (does not have a current spike on start up).

Modular channel design for greater channel separation, auto rail detection relays for automatic voltage selection. The unit also has switches for turning the metering and/or the status LED's on or off.