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Coincident speakers 14 Ohms - What amplification to use when streaming Tidal.

My Coincident Victory highly efficient speakers are at a 14 Ohm requirement.  I stream music using bluetooth through Tidal, but have agonized over amplification now using a Teac 301 Al D integrated amp with built in DAC and Bluetooth.  A SET tube amp is recommended by Coincident, but I do not play records any more.  In addition, I don’t want to spend a ton of money.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks much. 
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jond
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You can certainly use a tube amp in a streaming setup. And you may want to look at pushpull rather than SET amps depending on your budget. SET amps really need a great output transformer and those cost money. There are good budget pushpull amps not so many budget SET amps.
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tomcy6
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Your speakers are made to be used with very low power amps like SETs.  I don't know if you would enjoy that sound more than what you've got.

If atmasphere doesn't chime in I would message him.  He is a proponent of high sensitivity/high impedance speakers.
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kalali
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"A SET tube amp is recommended by Coincident, but I do not play records any more..."

Not sure if I follow the connection...
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charles1dad
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Hi enofile,

IMO you have numerous good options to consider. Have you decided on a budget range?  There are excellent amplifiers of various topologies that I believe  would serve you well. I have a bias toward low to moderate power simple circuit amplifiers. These types of amplifiers consistently sound very good.


I'm particularly fond of SET but good quality push pull tube amps (class A or class AB) can sound superb. Also OTL tube amps and pure class A solid state (for example First Watt, there are others as well). You truly do have many fine choices. Budget, room size, listening levels (SPL) are factors that will influence you direction.


A well designed amplifier with high quality power supply and transformers with power in the 10 to 50 watt range should work very well with your higher impedance/efficient speakers.

charles

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thaluza
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I used to own Victory II’s. With the rear ports, they were a little tricky to place in my small-ish room. Salvatore wrote that they can be an exercise in frustration if not fed quality components. That said, I found that they are capable speakers with many different types of amps. It will come down to a matter of taste. I tried 5 different amplifier topologies with mine. My personal favorites were my 8 watt SET monoblocks (that I still own), and an 80 watt OTL amp (that I ended up selling because they generated too much heat). I felt the sound with these amps was more fleshed out and more immediate, at least to my ears, than the other amps I had at hand. The other amps were push-pull 300B, A/B solid state, and EL34. They all sounded good too, just a bit thin and less "you are there" compared to the other two amps, IMO..
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