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Suggestions for high efficiency speakers?

I attended the Capital Audiofest and thought the Audio Note room had the best sound to my ears. Another attendee from Florida had a copy of "A Night in Tunisia" and it sounded like you were sitting in Art Blakey's chair with his drums right there in front of you. I want that palpability, that "you are there" sound I think low watt amps and high efficiency speakers deliver better than any other combination.

 

A couple years ago I heard the DeVore 96s at the same show and loved their sound, anyone know of other speakers that give the same sensations?

 

My system is a SOTA Sapphire w Sumiko MMT and Zu-modified Denon 103 into an Art Audio Vinyl One phono pre into a Lamm LL2 Deluxe pre into an Art Audio Jota SET power amp and into Joseph RM25 sigs.

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rspyder
103 posts
 

Viking Acoustics!

melody05
7 posts
 

Living voice is good choice with Class A tube amplifiers, 20 watts and above will help.

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atmasphere
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Where are two Swarm subs positioned in relation to the CAL T-3's?

One is placed against the wall (with the driver facing the wall) to my left. The other is behind me and to the right- it too has its driver facing the wall; in both cases to insure that their output is well within the room boundary.

I was disappointed with how the room goobled up bass when I moved in. So when I found how easy it was to set up the additional subs (according to Duke's instructions) it was quite satifying. I spent less than 5 minutes setting them up after I had the sub amp placed in my equipment stand. That is placing the subs, hooking them up, setting the controls on the amp, connecting my preamp to it- under five minutes. It worked right away- the bass at the listening chair is restored, and because of that the system also sounds more relaxed- a nice pyschoacoustic side benefit.

relaks
63 posts
 

How about Zu Audio Soul Supremes?  Or some Zingali - they have a US distributor now? 

sounds_real_audio
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A number of years ago I was a dealer for Art Audio. Had the Vinyl One, nice nice phono stage....My two cents would be to go with the deVore's. The 93's would be perfect, a little faster the the 96's and simply dreamy. The Jota is very fast with lots of detail so that combo should be perfect...

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