Thanks Everyone .. I will get a XPA-5 and VP160 ... and will update the results really soon.

you get what you pay for.

Care to expand on that thought??

Randy has a bad taste in his mouth from an experience he had with Emotiva a number of years back.

Nuff said, once bitten twice shy.

So? Did you get the XPA-5?
I have this amp, although I'm driving my fronts M80s with a pair of Emotiva UPA-1 monoblocks; personally, I think the separates bring more to the table than a receiver.
I just finished watching The Life of Pi on Blu-Ray... very good movie; we all jumped of the couch a few times :-).

SO, yeh did you get the XPA ?
I remember Porters rant(s) on the Emo a few yrs back lol I do not even need that high volumn listening.

wasn't a rant actually, factual info that Lonnie himself from Emo ended up agreeing it was their limiter circuit that was a flawed design on the MPS1. for some reason a few individuals like to blame the m80's