Persona 9h vs S3 mk 2

Thanks for the thoughts.

@yyzsantabarbara  unfortunately no, I asked the owner if I could demo them, initially he said sure, but after I finished with the 9H he seemed a bit tired and said... you won't like them, its a vintage sound. I didn't want to insist. Sorry.

@nabcs Ok thanks, lots to think about.

Do you guys think MC601s would be a good pairing? I could also do a tube preamp to warm it up more.

@smodtactical

I can imagine any McIntosh amp sounding great with Personas...and the tube preamp will be the icing on the cake.

If you read some Persona threads there are some Persona owners who are critical of the demos with MAC and Persona.

@yyzsantabarbara ah thanks, hrm, maybe that integrated moon amp. If I do this though I will probably just get the speakers and connect them to my bryston is just to hear how they sound and later add or subtract gear.

I don’t know what the reputation of moon amplifiers are but perhaps the integrated Moon amps that I heard did warm up the 9h slightly which made it so detailed yet musical.

I do like the pairing of my bryston amplifiers with my signature S8 V2 and that is known to be a somewhat cool leaning speaker so perhaps I'll enjoy the brystons with the 9h? 

But then again I've never heard my Sav to speakers with a warmer amp maybe I would like them more.