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Emotiva 6.2 Ninja Elite Upgrade

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Pricing includes components to upgrade one pair of speakers

Our Price: $166.00

Availability: Custom Item - ETA will be emailed to you

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Customize! Use the options in the blue box above to fully customize your upgrade. Click the (?) next to each item for a short description. For detailed information on each item, click the 'Customizations' tab directly above.

Ninja Notes

Emotiva has a winner of a line up with their ERx series of loudspeakers. When you have high caliber components to work with such as we have here, a network upgrade can make a significant improvment. If the speakers weren't up to snuff, no upgrade would be worth it. Congrats to Emotiva!

Ninja Elite allows you to experience what a crossover network upgrade can do for your system with a very reasonable price tag.

With Ninja Elite, we have removed the two most costly components of our Ninja Master networks: inductors and custom substrate. By re-using the factory inductors and Printed Circuit Board, materials and labor costs drop dramatically.

Sure you won't get quite the same performance level of a Ninja Master but Ninja Elite is an upgrade worthly of its name. Sonicap Capacitors are still used - the same as in our Ninja Master networks!

We consider Ninja Elite to be our best value upgrade (performance increase per dollar spent).

Upgrade Creation
The Skiing Ninja™ Elite network is based on the original crossover network. No part values have been changed.

When you have drive components of this caliber, the improvments you can expect shine through to their fullest.

If it's so great, you may be asking yourself, why didn't the original manufacturer equip the speakers similarly? We thought you might ask that. Here is your answer.

Crossover Upgrade Benefits

Overall you will notice a higher level of detail, texture, focus, superior sound stage, dynamics, musicality, and transparency. What does that mean? Read on...

Texture – All of the ‘inner’ details of each instrument comes across clearly. The ‘live’ feel comes across so well because the subtleties that are normally lost are finally present. The more revealing the overall presentation is, the more convincing it is.

Focus – We tightly match our components. While most components are 5 or even 10% tolerance, we use only 5% or less tolerance components and then we hand match them so that each pair of networks is 500 to 1000% better than the stock crossover.

Sound stage – Moves the sound stage from being within the confines of the speaker and moves it out, up, and behind the speaker. This helps recreate the sense of space and volume of the original performance.

Dynamics – Our networks use high quality Mills resistors. This means no masking of top end detail and no muddled midrange. There is a lot of techno mumbo jumbo about the why’s of this but essentially, Sand Cast resistors exhibit a rising resistance as temperature increases. This means your speaker's sound is altered the hotter the component gets. Contact Us if you want more info!

Transparency – The ability for the speakers to remove themselves from the performance. Our networks enhance this ability due to their magnetically correct layout, point to point build and superior quality components. Sit down, close your eyes, and listen... the performance comes alive as your speakers sonically disappear.

Musicality – The best part and why we are all here. Everything your speakers used to do they will do better with Ninja Elite networks and upgrades.

Components
Ninja Elite networks utilize the very best components available. If you want more in-depth information on these components, visit our components section.

	Sonicap Capacitors These have become known as one of the best caps available with a sonic signature that you won't hear. Super clean and detailed. We match all our Sonicaps for superior focus.
	Vampire Silver Solder 4% silver solder designed for easy flow and use. Eutectic solder with a water soluble, mildly active flux.

Customizations
We don't stop with crossover network upgrades. A speaker's final sound quality is very much a sum of its parts. The crossover network design, the crossover network parts quality, the cabinet, internal wiring, drive units, binding posts and more. All of these items contribute to the end product - of which the goal is to simulate a live event with as close to perfect accuracy as possible.

Special Customizations
We offer an array of customization services from tweaking your outboard networks to tailoring your new networks to fit you and your room. For example, if your room has a lot of glass and is sparsely furnished, you may find your speakers to be ' bright ' - we can alter the response to compensate for this. Any custom sonic changes are easily removed or updated if your environment changes.

Simply contact us for more information on any of our customization options.

Build Options
We offer kits that are professionally built by the Ninja and his minions. This way you know every connection is correct and tested. These are our easiest to install kits.

If you are adventurous, we offer DIY (Do It Yourself) kits. These kits come with all of the parts of our professionally built units but you assemble the network yourself. A diagram, photos and schematic are included so you don't have to figure out the layout. The ability to read a basic electronic circuit schematic is not required for a DIY build but it is very helpful!

A basic list of tools needed for DIY kits are: Soldering iron (solder is included with your kit), heat gun, needle nose pliers, screw driver, hot glue gun & glue or Liquid Nails™, and wire cutters.

If you are not sure, let us build it for you!

DIY Kit example	Ninja Built

Bypass Capacitors
Why use a 'by-pass cap'? Think of a capacitor as an energy storage device. Capacitors will store and release energy and are often used for that very reason.

In loudspeaker applications we use them for the capacitive effects and not their energy storage capabilities. The larger the cap the more energy it can store. Also larger caps take longer to charge and to discharge this stored energy. Different types of caps store and release energy at different rates too.

For a wealth of information on the usage of bypass capacitors in loudspeakers, click here.

Our networks typically come with the Sonicap Gen II bypass as standard (check the options above to confirm as this is on a per-network basis). We also offer additional types of bypass caps to suit your taste and budget:


Sonicap Gen II : The Gen II has a nice midrange bloom that produces a wonderful combination when bypassing larger values of Gen I with smaller values of Gen II. This excellent capacitor is standard on most networks.	Genuine Sprague VitaminQ P96: Slightly more expensive than the Sonicap Gen II, the Vitamin Q's provide a very lush sound, one that allows you to get lost in the music. If you're looking for the last bits of detail, you're better off sticking with the Sonicap Gen2 or looking at the Sonicap Platinum. Pairs excellently when powered by mid-fi receivers.	Sonicap Platinum: The Platinum posses the best combination of sonic characteristics available in a capacitor today. It is very fast, but full and rich. The presentation is ultra smooth without loss of detail, focus, or dynamics. The Platinum is the best bypass cap we offer and is ideal for high resolution systems.

Additional Thoughts on bypass capacitors...
If you are running your system with a mid-fi or lower receiver, you may want to try the VitaminQ's as that can tame the sometimes strident sound some receivers produce.

Sonicap Platinums are Teflon based whereas VitaminQ's are paper in oil. PIO is considered less accurate but many people love the sound.

Attention

For this speaker, when Vitamin Q or Platinum bypass caps are chosen, the woofer section will still receive Sonicap Gen2's.

Fun Stuff
We've got a bunch of fun stuff for you to pimp out your music or theater room. T-Shirts, Limited Edition Pint Glasses and Limited Edition Posters. Click to go to our Skiing Ninja™ Fun Stuff section for more information (link opens in a new window).

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