BasX A5+

Headroom Notes

95 W per channel into 8 ohms with all five channels driven, 20 Hz - 20 kHz, under 0.02 % THD. An all-channels-driven rating from a five-channel amplifier is the number an AV receiver never gives you, and it is why 95 honest watts here are not the same thing as 95 receiver watts.

Thermal Behavior

Emotiva is one of the few makers that states the load limit in words rather than leaving it to be guessed from a power table: 'Minimum Recommended Load Impedance (per channel): 4 Ohms (equals one 4 Ohm load or two paralleled 8 Ohm loads)'. The parenthesis matters - it is the only place in this batch where a manufacturer spells out what happens when two pairs of speakers share one channel.