Currently driving Kanta 1s (acquired last week) using NAD M33 and am somewhat happy with the results but wonder if there are better matches to squeeze more out of Kantas. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
i personally would go accuphase before luxman with kantas... they will appreciate the uber purity and smoothness in the treble that accuphase brings - luxman will play closer to the bleeding edge
Don’t like the appeal of Accuphase. I’m married so WF is in play. Also learned 505 has preamp so need that and a DAC. Will use Roon Rock I built myself (Nucleus clone).
you get good sound advice on sonics here (accuphase > luxman for upper focals with be tweet), but each person needs to sort out what is acceptable to them from a domestic cosmetic/appearance perspective
that said, hard for me to imagine if a luxman integrated looks good to you, why an accuphase won’t... 🤷♂️
anyhow, hope you can get something that pleases you and the wifey
Thank you! Greatly appreciated. I'll see if I can hear one in Chicago somewhere. Was contemplating MA8900 for looks and auto transformers, as my dealer has a used/mint one, but claims this is worse than my M33...
I started looking at McIntosh MA8900 (could get a deal on few month's old piece), and few other amps all which are so deep in size I couldn't fit them in my BDI cabinet. Then I looked at Accuphase and only 16.61 inches. Unfortunately, no dealers in Chicagoland I could find that sell these. Search continues...
Anything else I should look into? Go back to Hegel H390? 😉
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