comparison between SS Spectral and LAMM tube amp

Hi Caliareipaolo,

You may wish to speak with Oneobgyn...his system is here. He knows Lamm extremely well, is straight forward and honest. While he [technically] is a Lamm dealer, in truth, i believe that is more a hobby thing than a business. He also speaks extremely highly of Spectral, so i am confident he will give you a straight answer.

He runs the site Whatsbestforum.com which is mainly about audio as well. He usually responds within hours if not minutes. He is a great guy and has one of the all-time great systems built up over decades of experience.

The best solution with any tube amp is to match it with a high sensitive & simple X-over designed speaker. I listened to endless Systems where the owners said they are great but at the end of day, it was nothing special... A lot say, Wilson (for example because they are rated with 95dB) & Lamm are great, but it isn't.
You will have nearly no control in Bass (it is ok, but nothing special), the higher frequencies have no life or power (this is based mainly with problematic X-overs or aggressive tweeters found in such speaker designs). In a way, these speakers will never come to'life'.
This is simply based on the no. 1 fault from audiophiles: Matching expensive with expensive and the result HAS to be great. Mostly Boring. Mildly said. But a lot will have a different opinion.
When you want to keep your speakers, I recommend to go for the Lamm Hybrids or very strong tube amps.

Just to be clear, Syntax.

You will have nearly no control in Bass (it is ok, but nothing special), the higher frequencies have no life or power (this is based mainly with problematic X-overs or aggressive tweeters found in such speaker designs). In a way, these speakers will never come to'life'.

Are you talking about (say) Lamm ML2.1 SETs with Kharma 3.2s? The Kharmas are not that sensitive (89db/w/m), but are supposedly a fairly flat 8 Ohm load.

Regards,

Hi Metralla,

yes, of course. What I wrote has to be seen in this combination.
The tube amps from Lamm are outstanding with some speakers, but the
Kharma, Wilson (exception some early WP's), Magico, Soundlab, NOLA and so on
are not among them...
I think, one of my audiophile friends once had those - or similar - Kharma
speakers paired with ML2.1 because some told him, this would be a great
match. He never got happy with that Set up, he listened to a System with ML2.1
which was a much better matching and he knew he will never get it with these
speakers...
Some time ago I listened for longer time to Spectral 360 mono and I think, they
have absolutely nothing in common, Lamm units sound totally different...even
M1.2R...