Damn good honest answer.

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.... But the reality is that I personally have worked all these years to design the amps to have no personality at all. I believe that a properly designed amp should have no characteristics of its own other than to increase the power output, thus reveling the true nature of the music in its entirety.

Wow. I'd buy Emotiva based on this perspective alone. Too bad his views, if widely known, would be greeted with outrage from many in the audio hobby.

I traded an old Jolida 202 for two of their mono-amps but have not had time or opportunity to try them. The build quality and owners manuals are pretty impressive.

I wish the magazine would take a look at this company.

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.... But the reality is that I personally have worked all these years to design the amps to have no personality at all. I believe that a properly designed amp should have no characteristics of its own other than to increase the power output, thus reveling the true nature of the music in its entirety.

Wow. I'd buy Emotiva based on this perspective alone. Too bad his views, if widely known, would be greeted with outrage from many in the audio hobby.

Yes, too bad.

I even have a term that we could use to describe this heretical concept: "A straight wire with gain."

Blasphemy!

We'd be run from the hobby, for sure.

It seems that there have been several companies in the past who claim that they designed amps with that goal of neutrality in mind. Are they gone? I would guess that many today have the same goal. Boulder? Krell? I don't know. I have a hard time believing that Emotive is one of the few.