Emotiva XPA5 Gen 1


Hi, I am a newbie here and also in the world of music. I started a stere system last month, Just bought a pair of Klipsch R28F and a sub. I only listen to music and now use a Onkyo TX-8555 for Stereo. I would like to have a power amp and use the Onkyo as a Preamplifier. There is a local guy has a Emotiva XPA5 Gen 1 wants to sell it for me for $400. My question is: should I buy it ? Or should I buy 2 channel amp only for stereo music? This gets me to another question: I saw ClassDAudio has A 2 channel amp, 250wpc, for over $500, is it a good amp and should buy it instead of the Emotiva?

Please hepl me! 

Thanks in advance for your help! 
justinpham2012

For your subwoofer, you will most likely have to get a couple RCA splitter cables like the following:

https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-splitter-female-15-24cm-cable/dp/B000GUSQJG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1528944801&sr=8-2&keywords=audioquest+splitter

You would connect the splitter cables to the right/left RCA outputs on your preamp.  The splitters allow you to further connect separate left/right RCA cables to the amp (for main speakers) and to the subwoofer inputs.

Sometimes you can get an amp that has 2 sets of RCA outputs.  The Vincent has two sets.   On your Onkyo preamp, you can use the single RCA subwoofer output on the back/top for the Klipsch subwoofer.  Just connect it to either the left or right input on the sub.

NOTE: Even though the Schiit preamps have 2 sets of outputs, you can only use one at a time.

The Parasound P5 actually has an analog crossover built in so that you can split the frequencies between MAIN RCA outputs as separate SUB RCA outputs.

@rar1 I read somewhere here you have/had a Adcom pream GTP-500, how do/did you like it? There is a guy he has A GTP-500 and a GFA-535 for sale for $200? What do you think? Are they Adcom will work ok with my Klipsch?