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EMOTIVA XPA2 WITH MUSIC FIDELITY M6I
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In my opinion, you are talking about putting a racehorse in harness with a mule. You don't get very good results that way.
You should use the excellent Musical Fidelity amp alone to drive your front two speakers, without using the much lower quality Emotiva any more than you have to. Forget about bi-wiring or bi-amping; they don't help at all and can lead to sonic problems; just use good quality heavy gauge speaker wire.
The fronts are where 90% of your sound quality is determined, and the MF sounds MUCH better (it is really excellent, while the Emotiva IMO is only mediocre).
Use whatever you have to for the other 3 channels.
I would just use the Denon for those 3 channels and forget about the Emotiva altogether. The other 3 channels do not require a lot of power, and the Denon will do a good job of running them; it has adequate power to run those 3 channels, while the MF does the heavy lifting on the front channels,
Also, use the balanced interconnects from the OPPO direct to the M6; that will also give you maximum fidelity there for both music and video.