It pleaded with me to get it glued back to its former body. You may have noticed that the head of the headless panther has made an entrance here. At least you get a working product with very respectable measurements.Īs always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. Yes, you don't get balanced output but if you are not facing ground loops and connections are short, you should be OK. Get yourself a Denon AVR and use its pre-amp outs. Needless to say, I can't recommend the Emotiva XMC-2. It clearly has a list of hardware and software design problems. I think such is the situation with XMC-2. Lesson I learned there was to just ditch then thing and start over with a clean design. The XMC-2 reminds me of getting a new job at a company and taking over a messy project with tons of problems. I didn't see a reason to keep testing the XMC-2. But the moment I would touch the volume control, it would go back to near 4 volts as I had it set.Ĭonsidering how little I use these products for just testing them, this level of problems is way too excessive and indicates a product that simply is not ready for distribution and needs to have a complete test run on it and many bugs fixed.Īs usual, I start with testing the HDMI input. There were other strange things like selecting the Direct mode and then back causing the output voltage to jump to 7+ volts. Strangely it would change as I would rotate the volume.

When in this situation, it would alternate between -1 and +1 dB and even +2 dB at times. 0 dB for example sometimes would be at the peak of a detent rather than the notch. The volume control as very soft detents that did not allow precise adjustments of the volume control. Worse yet, it would buffer all the clicks and then act on them in sequence making it maddening to operate.

My HDMI interface would recognize it and I could pump audio through it but no picture.Ĭonfiguring the unit through the front panel was painful as some options would take as much as 5 seconds to take effect (e.g.

I was hoping that this would get it to output video to my Samsung monitor but it would not. For testing, I performed a factory reset.

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