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A few weeks back, Emotiva announced plans to make its new XPR-1 Mono-Block Amp an online exclusive. The company is now shipping the product—and Audioholics seems to think it’s more than worth the $1,499 price tag. The XPR-1 has a 30-pound 2.5kVA toroidal transformer and a massive low ESR capacitor bank, which powers a Class H power amplifier. It also promises 1,000 watts into 8 ohms (and 2,000…
It’s getting warmer outside, and it looks like that weather may actually be here to stay. Now is the perfect time to start thinking about summer barbecues and entertaining outside. Charred meat isn’t exactly a form of entertainment, but there are ways to extend your home theater system to the great outdoors. Our friends at Audioholics recently took the Visual Apex ProjectoScreen120 Outdoor Projector Screen out for a…
Need a speaker upgrade? Some people don’t appreciate the cost or effort involved in mixing and matching a setup. Thankfully, there are plenty of package sets out there for purchase—and many of them are quite good. Our friends at Audioholics just reviewed Pioneer’s SP-PK52FS 5.1 Andrew Jones Loudspeaker System. This setup includes two SP-FS52 floorstanding loudspeakers, a pair of SP-BS22-LR bookshelf speakes, a SP-C22 center channel, and the…
Emotiva has been cranking out the products lately. The company’s latest is the XSP-1 Differential Reference Preamp—and our friends over at Audioholics got to take a look at it. After working on the product for about two years, Emotiva delivers the XSP-1 as a combination of audiophile topology with an advanced, digital control system. However, it does all of that at a very gimme-worthy price of $899. It…
You’ve spent a ton of money putting together the perfect AV setup. Of course, that includes a nice set of speakers. Whether you have two, five or too many to count, you really need to take care of that system. That means that your speakers aren’t there to hold your drinks or your friend’s drinks. It also means knowing when enough is enough. While we love having the…




