I owned Salons for three years, and a close friend of mine owned his for four.
The most important thing to bear in mind with the Salons is that they are a very high-end speaker -- just because they can now be had used for $8,000 or less does not change that fact. Thus, you have to use them with very good electronics and cabling.
Cutting to the chase, the original Classe Omega and the Pass 600's work very well with Salons. I ran them for awhile with Jeff Rowland Model 6 monobocks with the battery power supplies, and got superb sound out of them (my dealer, who did not sell Rowland, said that he would run them with vintage Rowland if he could). I got best results with VAC Renaissance 140/140 tube monoblocks, but they are very expensive amps. Speaking of tube amps, there are only a small handful of tube amps that are able to control the woofers on Salons, all of which are extremely expensive.
The Salon owners I know did not like Levinson (Madrigal) amps with Salons, despite the speaker being voiced with them -- they found there to be a lifeless, overly languid sound to them when run with Madrigal electronics (I did, too, at one of my dealers).
My friend ran his for quite a while with the darTZeel amp, but it is very expensive.
If you need a great deal of power, then the big Classe Omega is hard to beat (and to lift -- 250 lbs.). If you do not need maximum decibels, then I suggest the Rowland -- Model 6, 8 or 9 are all fine, but the 6 sounds the best of the group assuming you don't need outrageous sound levels. This vintage of Roland amps plays to the Salons' strength of accurate timbre, resolution and musicality.
The most important thing to bear in mind with the Salons is that they are a very high-end speaker -- just because they can now be had used for $8,000 or less does not change that fact. Thus, you have to use them with very good electronics and cabling.
Cutting to the chase, the original Classe Omega and the Pass 600's work very well with Salons. I ran them for awhile with Jeff Rowland Model 6 monobocks with the battery power supplies, and got superb sound out of them (my dealer, who did not sell Rowland, said that he would run them with vintage Rowland if he could). I got best results with VAC Renaissance 140/140 tube monoblocks, but they are very expensive amps. Speaking of tube amps, there are only a small handful of tube amps that are able to control the woofers on Salons, all of which are extremely expensive.
The Salon owners I know did not like Levinson (Madrigal) amps with Salons, despite the speaker being voiced with them -- they found there to be a lifeless, overly languid sound to them when run with Madrigal electronics (I did, too, at one of my dealers).
My friend ran his for quite a while with the darTZeel amp, but it is very expensive.
If you need a great deal of power, then the big Classe Omega is hard to beat (and to lift -- 250 lbs.). If you do not need maximum decibels, then I suggest the Rowland -- Model 6, 8 or 9 are all fine, but the 6 sounds the best of the group assuming you don't need outrageous sound levels. This vintage of Roland amps plays to the Salons' strength of accurate timbre, resolution and musicality.