Interesting stuff. Is the modified protection circuit Emo or after market? Did you get a chance to A/B compare the XPA-2 and XPA-1s driving the M80s?

Also, I what to be sure no one thinks I’m slamming Emo I just don’t like reading things in other forums where people are still talking about M80s being “hard to drive” when they’ve never even used them. AFAIK that’s based on some older low end receivers not playing nice with the M80s but the “Meme” is still hanging around.

Some day I ‘might try out more powerful amps but I can already play loud enough w/o hearing distortion to damage my hearing and that my neighbors could call the cops on me so there are other priorities right now.

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