Dunlavy Cantatas What Power Amp?

Awd, You're right. The Cantatas are basically like the Athena/Aletha. When I auditioned the speakers it was with McCormack pwr amp, Wadia CD and pre-? There was nothing lacking during the audition. Steven I'll need to search out a Pass dealer to see if I can bring home a demo. Pretty pricy stuff...

Set up and Room has a lot to do with the bass out of the athenas. I originally had mine in a 12 x 22 L shaped room with the speakers on the long wall and one of the speakers firing into the di9ning room.... No bass. I moved them to a 20 x14 room with a 5 ft arch to a entryway across the room from one of the speakers and the bass was Much better. Added power cords to my amps and got another level in bass improvement, very solid and deep..you can feel it now whereas with the other room there were days i didn't think i was getting better than 50 hz out of them. I lauditioned the dunlavy with Pass amps and they sounded very good...they sounded smoother on the top with ARC VT-100 with no loss anywhere else. I'm using VTL-185 with mine and they sound great.

Dunlavy used all Aloia components at CES.Andrew say's it's the best sound they ever had.

They used Aloia with their bigger speakers. They had the Cantatas and the Alethas in a differet room and were using two sets of amplification: Rowland and some stuff builts a friend of John Dunlavy, Paris somebody, who was there helping out with the room. (This was the case when I visited but could have different at other times during the show.) I preferred the Cantatas with this guy's amps, which are not commercially available.

Buy a used ML331/332/333 and you will very, very pleased. Lots of bass control and not harsh. Outstanding combination