Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Does anyone here have any experience with Emotiva?

I'm sure your M80's are happy indeed. However at $2300, my pocketbook would be very, very sad.

no need to worry about your Denon handling music for extended periods of times, you will only be using 1-3 watts most of the time with brief jumps maybe reaching 100 watts. The 80's will give you 95dB's 1w 1m.

You menioned this before on another post, not sure where your figuring $2300, mine only cost me around $1500. Besides your not talking apples to apples comparing Emotiva to Odyssey anyway.

$2300 is what they have quoted on their website. I didn't scour the internet for the best deal as I'm sure you did. $1500 sounds fairly reasonable. However I guess if the M80's only consume 1-3 watts for the majority of the time, there may not be a need for an external amplifier after all. Which is great news as it would free up more money for a BluRay player now that I've discovered the DVD1800 doesn't even have RCA outs (ARRGGGG!!!!), and the only players I've found so far that do are around $1500! Goodness

Are you not looking for RCA outs just for the audio? If so then you can look for any of the ones mentioned around this forum and they are only in the $200 - 300 range, Panasonic, Sony, Samsung etc.

And if you look at the Stratos from Odyssey it is $1200-1500.

Looking for a BluRay player that decodes TrueHD/DTS Master and sends it via 7.1 channel RCA outs. Playing SACD or DVDAudio would also be a major plus.

That's what I thought. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars to get them, many of the more regular brands have them, like Sony, Samsung, Panasonic.

You can only purchase new Odyssey amps directly from Klaus in Indianapolis at Odyssey Audio, unless you purchased used equipment. They do carry a transferable 20yr warranty.

The $2295 your quoting is for Stratos mono's, I had my amps custom built by Klaus do to space concerns in my AV closet. He basically built me Stratos monos within Khartago cases for $1500.

Or a Rotel RB1080 for 1K and save the $500.

I see. I just looked on Odyssey's website http://www.odysseyaudio.com/products.html and looked for mono block and $2295 was what they listed. Naturally they won't have special orders listed there.