Emotiva BasX System
SURROUND SEPARATES ARE generally regarded as a step up from receivers. If you want the biggest and best, and have to ask their prices, you probably can’t afford them. But ask me the prices of Emotiva’s new BasX surround preamp/processor and multichannel amplifier, along with a set of compact speakers from the same series. The answers are $599, $499, and $1,045, totaling $2,143 for a 5.1-channel system of electronics and speakers. That would buy a mid-priced receiver and a decent (but probably smaller) satellite/subwoofer set. Odds are the receiver would have more features than Emotiva’s pre/pro. But those features would have to share a chassis and power supply with current-sucking, signal polluting amp components, whereas Emotiva’s separates separate the pre/pro from the amp, offering the potential for better performance from both.
You needn’t buy the BasX separates as a pair. Perhaps you’d prefer to mate a more feature-rich pre/pro from Emotiva or a different brand with Emotiva’s multichannel amp. Or perhaps you love your old multichannel amp but want to upgrade your equally old pre/pro to something that has Ultra HD–capable HDMI. If that sounds like you, read on.
Before you do, however, let me state up front that the MC-700 pre/ pro doesn’t support Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, the new height-capable surround formats. Nor will it do so in any future update. Even if it did, you wouldn’t be able to use those formats here, because the five-channel A-500 amp doesn’t have enough channels to support either height or back surround.
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