What Amp with Sonus Faber Olympica 3?


Greetings....Curious to know what amp are you using with the Olympica 3?  Seems they need some juice at the 80-120Hz region and dip to 2-ohms so I understand it takes some current to properly drive. Just sold a ARC Ref110 and looking for a replacement. Short list:

Pass Labs 150.8 or 30.8
Audio Research Ref 150/75SE
McIntosh MC275
Primaluna EVO 400 

Preamp is a Primaluna EVO 400. Listening room is 16x16 with vaulted ceilings and listening volume level can top out around 90db give or take a few  :)


samzx12
@woodman2  referring to the Olympica 3 not the newer Nova 3. From my understanding the Ref75SE is a bit warmer than the bigger Ref110/150 brothers? 
@jjss49 as far as the Ref 75SE I figured with the beefed up power supply and KT150s it would have sufficient power to push the O3 and sound lovely also. 
@samzx12

don’t think so... 8x kt120 in ref110 vs 4x kt150 in ref75se, through same transformers, even with slightly beefed up power supply

https://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?49901-Technical-Differences-Between-KT120-and-KT150-V...

kt150 draws 20% more peak current than kt120 via datasheet (see link above), nowhere near double... and that assumes the power supply can deliver it through the 150...  so double the number of kt120's will still be 70-80% more powerful in transients -- thus i would expect that the ref110 will push and pull harder, greater grip, greater current, esp. with impedance low @ 2 ohms with difficult phase angles in bass region frequencies of the speaker ...


I might be comparing apples to oranges, but FWIW, I tried a GSi75 that took KT150s with Olympica II. The sound was impressive but it just didn't exert much control over the woofers. 
@jjss49  thank you for that comparison and I suppose you are correct. The 110 with more tubes had better control but still not enough as also holds true for the Ref 75SE.  I have read a couple of Olympica 3 reviews where the reviewer used a Ref 75SE and was very satisfied with the combination however, did not really comment about lack of bass. But we can see the O3 needs current down low and typically tube amps can't solve the low impedance issue.