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mmporsche, Wow! Switching from the constellations to the 211 tube integrated is quite a leap across the amplification spectrum. I suspect your current system sounds marvelous. bigwave1, I understand your point regarding the advantages of higher efficiency/sensitive speakers (My preference as well). However the OP (Dave) is happy with his Revels. So I believe most suggestions to him are provided with that in mind (Keeping the current speakers), Charles |
@oldhyvmec ’life is short, make sure spend as much time as possible arguing with strangers on the internet’ just trying to reward good behavior here, discourage bad but do i really care? no, not really - just would be nice to have folks be nice while helping other nice folks with covid, fires, horrible state of the nation, we hang out here more than we should, so it’d be nice if we could have a nice place here |
A few thoughts. 1. +3 or +4 on a nice tube preamp with a quality high power SS amp. Those speakers are almost certainly designed to be driven by a SS amp. Arguing with a designer and using equipment out of its intended use case is a tough road... 2. You don't state what is wrong with your current system. If you do feel like something is missing, a report of what that is *might* improve the quality of the comments. 3. If you do want to change amps, have you contacted the speaker manufacturer to give them your budget and ask for a recommendation? No one knows more about what will work well than them. Maybe once you get a few options from them you can bring those back and try to get some additional feedback from other users. 4. I also love SET amplification and high efficiency speaker designs, but was able to find happiness with a SS amp and 6sn7 based pre when I discovered that my current speakers were not as efficient as advertised (Coincident PREs). There are many paths to beautiful music reproduction. |
oldhvymec Appreciate the warning. I'm quite familiar with the narcissistic personality type. |
