@hilde45 Con-grads on getting the SALKs. There has been some very good advice here and It looks like you’re on your way to an incredibly good set up.
I agree about the hobby idea. After a point, we can find ourselves obsessed with the fiddling and not taking time to enjoy the music or the sweet spot once we’ve finally found it, or even recognize it when we do. My suggestion is: When you get close and it seems right, gather up some of your favorite tunes, a cold beer, and set back, relax and listen, to the music, not the system. At least, for me, when a system is right, it is about being drawn into the performance, with an underlying awareness of little subtle things - the timber of the horns, the tinkle of a triangle or the breath of a vocalist - that make it seem real. After 20 or 30 minuets - the feeling "I want the show to go on", not the feeling "I think I need an Advil".
@decooney I am driving my Maggie 1.7s with a Rogue Cronus Mag. II, 100W pr side tubed integrated, with KT120s. Also for a while with a Ayre V- 5xe 150W pr ch. SS amp with an Audible Illusions tubed pre. I like both very well, but favor the tubes. I think the 1.7s would sound very good with your QS tubed monos, in a medium sized room as long as you could put them at least 2’ from the side walls and at least 3’ from the front wall.
My 1.7s are set up in a medium sized room, 14’W x 27’D with a 10’ ceiling and open to the dinning rm. on the left another 12’x14’x10’. They are on the 14’ wall with a heavy carpeted floor and acoustic drapes on the wall behind and on the wall to the right and a fiber board acustic panel ceiling. In my room, they are very sensitive to set up but now that dialed in, sound incredible, regardless of where I sit and I wouldn’t trade them for anything else near their price.
Thanks to my little furry buddy’s 3:00 AM wake up calls, I get to set back and enjoy some great music every morning from about 3 - 6 AM, before getting the wife up to start the day and then again, most afternoons for a couple hours, with a cold beer.
Someday I might invest in the larger 3.7is and a bit more power, but for now, am very much enjoying what I have....Jim
I agree about the hobby idea. After a point, we can find ourselves obsessed with the fiddling and not taking time to enjoy the music or the sweet spot once we’ve finally found it, or even recognize it when we do. My suggestion is: When you get close and it seems right, gather up some of your favorite tunes, a cold beer, and set back, relax and listen, to the music, not the system. At least, for me, when a system is right, it is about being drawn into the performance, with an underlying awareness of little subtle things - the timber of the horns, the tinkle of a triangle or the breath of a vocalist - that make it seem real. After 20 or 30 minuets - the feeling "I want the show to go on", not the feeling "I think I need an Advil".
@decooney I am driving my Maggie 1.7s with a Rogue Cronus Mag. II, 100W pr side tubed integrated, with KT120s. Also for a while with a Ayre V- 5xe 150W pr ch. SS amp with an Audible Illusions tubed pre. I like both very well, but favor the tubes. I think the 1.7s would sound very good with your QS tubed monos, in a medium sized room as long as you could put them at least 2’ from the side walls and at least 3’ from the front wall.
My 1.7s are set up in a medium sized room, 14’W x 27’D with a 10’ ceiling and open to the dinning rm. on the left another 12’x14’x10’. They are on the 14’ wall with a heavy carpeted floor and acoustic drapes on the wall behind and on the wall to the right and a fiber board acustic panel ceiling. In my room, they are very sensitive to set up but now that dialed in, sound incredible, regardless of where I sit and I wouldn’t trade them for anything else near their price.
Thanks to my little furry buddy’s 3:00 AM wake up calls, I get to set back and enjoy some great music every morning from about 3 - 6 AM, before getting the wife up to start the day and then again, most afternoons for a couple hours, with a cold beer.
Someday I might invest in the larger 3.7is and a bit more power, but for now, am very much enjoying what I have....Jim