Recently, I purchased an amazing pre-amp and amplifier from Emotiva, and I'm completely impressed with both their customer service and their products.  These have awesome construction quality, and beautiful sound quality, while giving you professional components that you can upgrade independently over time.  Here's what Emotiva has to say about the products, it's all true!

 

Designed for the serious home entertainment enthusiast who has an eye for real value. For about the cost of a mid-line home theater receiver, you can have the power and performance of separates. The Emotiva Ultra Theater Series is a product line that every enthusiast should seriously consider.

The LMC-1 will support multiple A/V sources and features full multi channel decoding capabilities. It has extremely high quality video switching capability, an internally powered second zone output,and comes complete with a 2x1 HDMI switcher.

The 63 pound LPA-1 features a massive toroidal power supply, discrete fully complementary modular audio power amp topology and an innovative 6 or 7 channel output configuration. Rated at 125 watts RMS per channel at 8 ohms with ALL channels driven, it makes the typical receiver seem impotent. Sophisticated microprocessor controlled protection circuitry keeps everything running smoothly under all operating conditions.

The Emotiva Ultra Theater Series will be the centerpiece of your high performance home theater; why compromise when you can have the performance of seperates for the price of a receiver?

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