Best amp pairing for Focal Kanta 1s

Received an excellent/used Luxman today from authorized dealer. I love it!! Very nice amp. Cant run it past 10-11 o’clock or its too loud in condo. Run it without REL first and bass was good (best i have had here, considering the issues in the room and placement). Once I added T5X, this filled up nicely. I am really enjoying it. Currently running it via Node 3rd Gen) but it still sounds good. Ever Solo arrives in about a week. Will see if anything will improve. I will run it balanced and since I have to get XLR cables im thinking of switching to Cardas Iridium, from Nodost BlueHeaven. Not sure if thats a smart move or not.

@niko79 imo I’d probably stick with the BlueHeaven cables you have now unless you were to jump past the Iridium up to something like the 4-wire Cygnus with Cardas. Even between Parsec and Cygnus, a different result. And between Cygnus and Clear Reflection, a different result yet again as an owner of all of these, priors, fwiw.

I will need a DAC and a streamer, right? I have a Roon Core already. 

Look into Small Green Computer to run your core and the Sonore for the endpoint.  Plenty enough $$ lefter over for DAC of choice

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@decooney Thank you for your input. Yea since I am already invested in all Bluehaven cables, changing to the other brand is probably not the most effective move. But what in hi fi audio is? :D

Anyway, I will just get an XLR interconnect for my streamer to amp connection and be done with it for now. If I decide to upgrade the DAC, I will rethink this again.