What Emotiva are you looking at, and to what SPL levels do you listen? Also, how big is your room and how far back would you be listening.
The reason I ask is I owned the MPS-1 for 3 months and it kept shutting down when driving my 80's at levels I would not call insane. Granted, I have a very very large room to fill. My Denon 2805 alone never shut down at higher levels (however did show signs of distress/clipping).
My current Odyssey Khartago Extremes mono's don't even break a sweat at louder levels.
Another thing that I have found is that like the Axiom amp, louder levels with no distress or clipping do not bring fatigue to your ears like a receiver or seperates with minimal headroom.
jm2c
