Choice of Amps

Abex, Bill Kieltyka at one time recommended Aragon amps to me for use with the 50Me II's. I have heard really good things about Electrocompaniet products. I owned a Monarchy DAC at one time and judging from the experience would expect their amps to be excellent, along with the comparisons to Pass amps.

I purchased the N.E.A.R.'s about 3 years ago. I recently gave them to my son and his wife as a wedding gift knowing my son liked them so much. I also think they're great.

I modified mine with some Marigo dots. I was especially pleased with the Marigo Dynamic Tuning bands on the woofer basket arms. These tweaks along with the double ZERO configuration were phenomenal. They were excellent by themselves too.

I have never heard of these.

The best sound I ever heard using them was with Mark Levinson amps and ARC Pre-Amps.That was before the Mods that Bill did after the appauling review DO gave them in Stereophile.

They have the same Tweeter design as the Watt Series speaker's and someone said they had heard a Electocompaniet Amp driving them at the Bangkok AES and they were awesome.I am thinking of trying that combo.

Aragon is Krell's affordable series I think and I have a Modified B&K which is really a poormans Krell IMO.I would love to have Atma-Sphere's,but they are really out of my price range. A used Electrocompaniet is all I can afford unless I wait for the price of Monarchy's to come down which I have only heard good things about.

Anyway's thanks for the advice!

Abex, Aragon is owned by Klipsch, not Krell.

Were they not sold to Klipsch not so long ago and before that their designs were based on Danny Ag.'s designs?

That is what I remember,but it's been awhile.

TIA

How old is the Electro? Some of the earlier AW 100's (10+ years had problems as the boards were hand soldered). It is a wonderful sounding amp. An older AW 60 would sound even better. But for the 1K you want to spend, I would go after a DNA.5 and upgrade it as you get more money.