Apogee Scintilla Power

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the Sunfires will stay in the collection for now. There is a 600 as well. I think the 300 is 1200w at 1ohm. Quite remarkable. Will check out Magnus and TNT. 

I tried a McIntosh MC7270 and it did not get close to the Sunfires. The Mc has a 1ohm connection terminal that is achieved through the autoformer. Ran fine, cool, etc. but did not have the punch of the SF.

Scintilla’s for $900 a deal for sure. But most likely would have required some work. Could have cost you 5-6K in the end, without a fancy finish. Based on what i have heard (which may be limited) worth it. Of course my Dynaco A25’s i picked up at goodwill for $35 sound pretty sweet...:). 

I had those back in the day.   The sun fires will drive them pretty well. Big soundcraftsmen amp is what you want for something cheap to run them.  Like a 5002      If you can find a used krell  fbp series those will make the scintilla sing.

Acoustat TNT! Excellent amp, now forgotten!

Jason Bloom often demoed the Scintilla with either a pair of mono Classe DR-3's or a stereo Classe DR-3VHC

Other than the one ohm load, that speaker is otherwise reasonably efficient and easy to drive. The only time I heard a pair was at a reveiwer's house with our 100 watt MA-1 amplifiers using a set of autoformers to accommodate the load. There was plenty of power and it sounded quite nice.

So if you wanted to use tubes, you could get a set of ZEROs (www.zeroimpedance.com) to help the amp out with the load.