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February 19, 2014 - 1:54am
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Help with simple setup - Emotiva UPA 200 + FOCAL CHORUS 807V or Powered Monitors?
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I think you would have a hard time beating the 807V speakers at that price; Focal makes some excellent speakers, and that's a nice price. The 806V are also very similar for $599.
Obviously you need a power amplifier, but i don't know if connecting the sound card directly would work out or not.
Sometimes the volume control of a sound card has very crude steps that are not precise enough to control the volume very well. There might also be impedance matching issues.
I suggest that you consider the Music Hall 15.3 integrated amplifier, which IMO will sound better and be much more versatile and user-friendly in the long run.
There have also been many user complaints in the AVS Forum about Emotiva's poor reliability and extremely poor customer service and support; real horror stories. Everything I read about that makes me very leery of Emotiva.