Anyone hear the Caravelle speaker and not like it?

Pal, ever hear the phrase "easy does it" or "one step at a time?" If Scotty heard the Caravelles with tubes and loved them; would you buy tubes? If I told you I prefer SS with the Caravelles more than tubes, would you buy them? Now after you go through the tube vs ss debate and decide: what SS or what tubes should I buy? What I'm trying to say is relax and hold on to what you've got. When you get your Caravelles with their dedicated stands, set them up, break them in, and become intimate with your new baby. Take it from there. The Caravelles will, in due time, let you know where you have to go. Fasten your seatbelt. This will be the first of some major audio aquisitions for you. Trust your tympanics. Sure there are going to be audiophools who may not like the Caravelles. Show the color black to enough people and someone is going to see blue. There won't be many, though. Keep us posted with your impressions. happy listening...warren

Theaudiotweak...I didn't mention it before, but why should the amplifier care where the crossover network is located? Try hooking up the speaker with red and black wires reversed, so that the crossover is in the return leg. Does it sound any different? (Assuming that you have accounted for the inversion elsewhere in the system)

Having, as a DIY guy, played around with both series and parallel crossovers I don't see a performance advantage of one over the other. The series is more difficult to execute in practice (not harder to design), and we all have the gut feeling that if something is difficult to achieve it must be of great value. This is an opening for marketing. Actually, I like low level electronic crossovers, or, in the ideal, a full range speaker (where the crossover is mechanical in the form of cone breakup).
Vive la difference.

Warren, You're getting to be a real Oracle, are you from Delphi? :-)

Pal, Warren is totally on point. I would add to his comments that if these speakers are as revealing etc as reputed they should be as critical of the sonic quality of the components attached to them as are most other quality high end speakers. One of the things that (should) make them great is their ability to dig out the detail from the software. Unfortunately that same ability will allow them to dig out all of the qualities, good and bad, of the electronics. That same ability also makes auditioning difficult unless you already have some kind of reference point, you won't know if something you don't like is because of the speaker or the (?) amp. If the speakers like your present electronics, sonically speaking, you are at a great starting point. FWIW, on paper at least, these speakers should be great for medium powered tube amps which are available on the used market in, or close to, your price range. Take your time and have fun.

Newbee, well said. We Oracles have to stay together.....

Pal, I am partial to tubes. IMO - more presence, detail and 3 dimensionality. But the Caravelles sounded great on the Krell. The most 3 dimensional Krell I have heard. I don't want to get into a tubes vs. ss.....but I do prefer tubes, your mileage may vary?