mapmustang
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I finally have my media room set up in my new house with the Logans. It is a pretty good size room at 12'Wx26'Lx10' ceilings. I am driving the Ascent i's with a pair of Emotiva XPA-1 500 watt monoblocks and an XPA-5 200 watt amp driving the theater I and frescos. The processor is an Emotiva UMC-1 and bluray is the OPPO 105 hooked up via 5.1 analog outs. I had previously tried running the analog outs on the Oppo straight to the amps, but everything sounds better when run through the preamp.
The last few movies I have watched have pushed the XPA-1 amps into clipping territory a couple times in the film during flashes of high volume. I'm not listening at deafening levels, but a good healthy volume (my guests actually wanted it a little louder, especially in the quiet scenes).
The 2 XPA-1s sit at the front of the room next to the Ascents with the preamp at the back of the room. To do this, I ran 50' XLR cables from the preamp through the attic and down to the amps.
I would think the XPA-1s would still have plenty of power to drive the Ascents to a satisfactory volume. Have any of you guys found the best way to boost signal strength in a situation like this to get the desired volume without clipping? Would it be best just to increase the speaker levels a little bit across the board on the processor? Right now the Ascents are at 0 dB and Theater is at -2dB and Fresco at -5dB.
Thanks for the help.
The last few movies I have watched have pushed the XPA-1 amps into clipping territory a couple times in the film during flashes of high volume. I'm not listening at deafening levels, but a good healthy volume (my guests actually wanted it a little louder, especially in the quiet scenes).
The 2 XPA-1s sit at the front of the room next to the Ascents with the preamp at the back of the room. To do this, I ran 50' XLR cables from the preamp through the attic and down to the amps.
I would think the XPA-1s would still have plenty of power to drive the Ascents to a satisfactory volume. Have any of you guys found the best way to boost signal strength in a situation like this to get the desired volume without clipping? Would it be best just to increase the speaker levels a little bit across the board on the processor? Right now the Ascents are at 0 dB and Theater is at -2dB and Fresco at -5dB.
Thanks for the help.