I have not heard their AV stuff, just 2 channel. They are definitely worth the asking price, just not stars IMO.
I guess this thread about a new transport has gotten fully derailed!
I canât comment on any of Emotivaâs current offerings. However, I have a pair their XPA-1, Gen I mono block, 500 wpc amplifiers. They are great performers and well reviewed.
FWIW/FYI.
I moved my ADS L710s out of the way when my Wilsons arrived. A friend who was very familiar with the sound of my system told me I blew it. Later on he changed his mind. The L710s are stored in the next room, I will never get rid of them. I love that ADS soundâŠ
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I gave my L810 S2âs to my son when he graduated from college as I had purchased a pair Vandersteen 3A Sigs but I still have two pairs of L570 S2âs. One pair I bought off of Ebay about 4 years ago look as if it had just come out of the factory package. One pair is Cherry and the other Oak.
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I donât doubt it. They are not bad, actually really good for the money. I just donât think they belong on a list with top flight equipment. Just my opinion.
I did not define the word âstarsâ.
I probably donât like everything what each brand that I mentioned produces.
By âstarsâ I did mean companies that deliver decent well thought of products that are worth their money,. Rather like what you said about Emotiva. I trust when a company is described like what you said about Emotiva and is still around that is already an achievement.
I certainly forgot to mention Schiit and Hegel.
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Yes, this seems to be the conventional wisdom regarding Emotivaâs products. However, some of the reviews I read regarding the âGen Iâsâ (the XPA-1 amplifiers I own) donât include the âfor the moneyâ caveat along with their very positive comments, IIRC.
For example: âSecretsâ XPA-1 Review - with high praise for subjective AND measured performance included. (Even this review talks about how great it measured âfor the moneyâ, though. But I donât think that comment was meant as a pejorative.)
That said, I consider myself to be âvalue-centricâ in my kit choices â looking for the biggest bang for the buck. I guess they are âreally good for the moneyâ, now that I think about it. 
Finally, for all I know, maybe their later offerings are not ââŠone of the best amplifiers I have ever heard, periodâŠâ as the reviewer concluded in the linked review.
Cheers.
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Iâm new to this site. I was unaware that pwmp was disco. I have followed Paulâs you tube videos for years , in which it was stated that the perfect wave media player would in fact play anything including of course sacd. Now i was slow to buy into this concept having to use a dac to decode info. But if the results were good , worth a thought.
Given this is high end product ,iâm sure many would feel retaining this capability is a major draw.
By not doing so , clearly you have lost , all be it a small percentage of clientele . If in fact the disc player has been absent since 2015 is unfathomable
The post you have replied to there is âold newsâ and was superseded by ânew newsâ.
The replacement to the DMP supports SACD.
The DMP has been absent because the optical drive manufacturer stopped building that part.
There has been a delay in delivering the DMP replacement to the market because PS Audio werenât really sure for a while which direction to take with it, and a host of other reasons, which we now understand all have been mostly settled.
So âwatch this spaceâ.
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Mic_mac, you are referring to the Perfect Wave Transport (PWT) that was discontinued several years ago. It was replaced by the DirectStream Memory Player (DMP), which was recently discontinued due to the manufacturer of the drive (OPPO) getting out of the media player business. The PWT played CDâs and several data discs, but did not play SACD. The DMP plays all the same discs as PWT plus SACD. To get the SACD layer on the DMP requires a current PS Audio DAC.
As Brodric says, this thread is about the replacement for the DMP. While we donât have all the technical information on it, I think it will play all the same discs as the DMP. I also think it will only play the SACD layer to a current PS Audio DAC. Hope that clears things up for you.
I am sad to know that the new Transport will not support album art. That is so cool in DMP.
Regards,
Sourav
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I am too!
I wouldnât mind that too much since you likely have the album case close by if youâre playing the disc. With streaming I do like the DSD showing the art though ROON makes that not a big deal with the nice big image on the iPad.
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My Esoteric transport does not support album art but I made a work-around solution using a Pronto touchscreen remote. I also Iiked the album art feature of DMP, when it worked. My Pronto solution works pretty good.
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Album art works flawlessly and predictably for me in DMP.
I just need to add the metadata and album art for a CD in MysicBrainz. DMP always picks it up from there within 30 mins or so.
Regards,
Sourav
Most cds would be almost finished playing by the time you would see it. 30 minutes is not flawless, perhaps predictable, IMO.
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Well that is the first time it takes 30 mins (or less). After that from next time onwards it is immediate.
Also first time this 30 mins is between u finished ur update in MusicBtainz and when it appears in DMP. If u play the CD in DMP after say 30 mins or so download does not take more than a minute.
The first time latency is probably because there is latency at which MusicBrainz makes the data available for other system to consume. As far as I know DMP tries pulling the data from MusicBrainz on demand basis (as soon it identifies that the cd does not have meta data downloaded in the sd card).
Regards,
Sourav
If it would work reliably, but it doesnât, maybe you are lucky, quite a number werenât. An empty big screen is rather annoying.
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Yeah, I canât say mine ever worked. Plays fine though.