WaYYY back when,I had an ECI3 driving Monitor Audio RS1's & it was quite pleasing but when I changed speakers to Sonus Faber it was far to dark sounding,almost veiled...You will notice Huff is using mostly Triangle speakers with the ECI6...I suspect with the right speakers the Electrocompaniet is beautifully musical but probably not so much with already warmish speakers...IMO the SimAudio 340i is a better all arounder,with a better Warranty & better North American support system for about the same $...