Starke Sound FIERA 8 | Perfect Surround Sound Amplifier 

I have one, now for about 18 months... powers my 4 surrounds and 4 atmos speakers offloaded from my Denon 4700H. works fine, plenty of power, no hum I can detect and runs really cool. My Atmos speakers are SVS Prime Els and my surrounds are 2 SVS Satellites and 2 Def tech Mythos Gems, all eight are 8 ohms. I'm fine with the ability to drive them to reference with the Fiera8

One more point. I was chasing the same hum in my room. Most likely the most frustrating thing to solve for. A brand new home, two independent master electricians and we couldn’t fix it. I concluded it was coming from my amps even with XLR connections. An $89 ground defender solved my issues. Thanks to my great Houston based installer Insane AV. If it were not for him, I would still be chasing it down

@RobZelinka Can you drop a link for the ground defender? Also you’re a Houstonian? I live in Houston as well.

LOLLLL Hilarious!

Yea! I’m supposed to get some for review

OSD 7 channel @ 200wpc for $1k, as opposed to the Fiera 8 channel amp for $1500, definitely have to, from a price standpoint go with the OSD. OSD, 1 less channel, but more power, and less money. Fiera, 1 more channel, 70wpc less, for $500 more.

@wendellwendellb339 Very fair comparison. I did think the price was a little high which is why I only gave it 3 stars for the price. Great amp tho! I’m curious to see how the OSD amps compare.

@@hatoraidcowboy I currently have a 2, 4, and 5 Emotiva BasX amps, and if I wanted to cut that number to just 2 amps (after a review of the OSD amps) for now I would lean toward the OSD amp, if what a commenter said as far as price for the new 7 channel OSD amp. I had a hum in my surround channels, but, when I changed the RCA cables for better one, the hum was gone. Guess better cables do help!

@wendellwendellb339 Yea I even upgraded to SVS soundpath cables and couldn’t get rid of the hum until I went XLR. Never going back to RCA amps!

I have yet to experience Buckeye amps but I’ve heard great things!

It’s a beast and I love it

I’m having their engineer on next week for a livestream. Tune in and ask him about it 😀

@@hatoraidcowboy ​​⁠ha. Trying to get them live stream numbers up I see. I’ll give it a shot though. If not though I’ll catch the replay so if it comes up I’d definitely like to know about the low gain.

Seemed like a ground loop. Whatever it is/was the xlr connections fixed it!

Really….That’s very interesting. Like multiple channels?

yes and you never knew which one it would be until you realized that something was missing. Like when my wife yelled at me because her show had music but no dialogue. The center channel was out! :(@@hatoraidcowboy

Thanks man! I’m hoping to get some OSD amps for review as well. Have fun at the Florida audio Expo!

@@hatoraidcowboy Thanks, Starke sound is legit though, they make the Eversolo F2 amps now. Looking forward to the live stream coming up. 🙏🏾

Yea my XPA 3 is silent on the XLR inputs. I think XLR is the key though. My setup has always been noisy with RCA inputs

@@hatoraidcowboy l have only used xlr’s👍🏻

Thanks! Yea the Jurassic films, especially the new one has some great audio mixes

Yea those differential Emotiva amps would be 🤌 But I’m on a budget over here 🤣 My XPA-3 Gen 2 has been solid for 10 years 💪

@hatoraidcowboy please 🙏 ask Emotiva for a DR3 review to precede the next gen 4 processors. Emotiva is poised to take back the processor market under $5k.

@chebrubin Maybe one day!

@@chebrubin friends don’t let friends buy Emotiva processors. Still too many bugs, gremlins, etc. years later. That said there is a lot to love about them, they just need to work out all the bugs

@RobZelinka Hopefully the + models with rectify all the long standing issues. I bypassed the video completely and only using the RMC-1 for audio and its been solid. Couldnt take the video issues for very long so I just bypassed it altogether.

I was only sent one. I already have a 3 channel amp with Emotiva. I just needed an 8 channel amp to replace my other two amps.

@shaolin95- There is impedance rise that occurs while playing audio. It is common to have 2x to 6x your wired impedance, as audio is playing. Example: In this video, he wired all 8 speakers, each @ a 4 ohm load= @ rest= while no audio is playing. If impedance were to be ✔️ed while playing audio, it could have read as Low as 8 ohms, and as high as 24 ohms, on some freq.. Just by doing math, that could change this amplifiers available power, to these speakers, while playing sound, from a Low of 50 watts per ch., to a high of 140 watts per ch. If playing @ Max Volume, which almost no one does. This is why it is recommended to buy an amplifier that has 2x the power, or more, of the speakers power handling.

Will def be an upgrade over the BasX. I’ll take xlr over rca any day

Also my Fiera8 is powering my Polk audio RTIA7 Fronts, Polk Audio CSIA6 Center, Bowers & Wilkins VM6 surrounds. The 4 heights are Polk audio TSI-100 powered from My Denon 4700h.

You can’t change a speakers Ohm load. You gotta buy new speakers 😳

1250 was regular price when I bought mines.

Get the 8 channel. Even if you cant use all the channels now, ALWAYS future proof if you can. Separates is the way to go.I would run everything off of pre-outs IF you can

@@hatoraidcowboy so run the 8 channels and keep the center on the denon...

@cgm246 Actually I would run the CC on the amplifier since its your most important speaker. Run a surround or height channel on the Dennon

I just swapped cables and play 🙂Still need to run Dirac on the RMC-1

its just a gain issue then. more power shouldnt be more volume mate. be careful as you can blow your kit or your ears with improperly gain matched stuff (altho rare) @@hatoraidcowboy

@katstutrakatsturatorren Thank you!

@@katstutrakatsturatorren - Everybody should save $ then, and just buy a 1 watt per ch. amplifier then!? A more powerful amplifier, should be louder, if driven to the same % of its capabilities, as a lower power amplifier. Example: Lets say ALL amplifiers max out there power capability if given 4 volts. That means if an amplifier is given 1 volt, it will produce 25% of its maximum power. If given 2 volts= 50% power, 3 volts= 75% power, and if given 4 volts= 100% power output. So if you had a 50/wpc. amplifier, and turned up the volume to lets say -20= 2 volts ( in this example ), it should be putting out 25/wpc, or half power. Then lets say you just took this amp out, and put in 1 that makes 200/wpc., @ 4 volts. If you then turned up your volume to that same -20= 2 volts ( in this example ), it should be putting out 100 /wpc, or half power. This second amplifier, would be much louder, approx. +6DB, @ the same volume setting, just like in this video. Yes you can match DB levels, as long as the power level, of the lower power amplifier, is not exceeded. As you run out of headroom/power, from the less powerful amplifier, it will not be able to keep up, volume/DB wise.

LOL

@tkcdac- Im older, and i could hear the hum/hiss/noise through my cheap tv speakers. You either didn't have your volume turned up enough, or your hearing is pretty bad?

This amp is a beast and I love it. Definitely underrated.