Be prepared for your Ref 3s to start sounding pretty awful. Out of the box they sound okay, but not nearly as good as they will sound after 100 hours. Play them loud during the break-in period. I put mine face-to-face and threw a couple of blankets over them. Trust me, you haven't really heard them yet. Fabulous speakers. Good luck, Dave
I got my Gallo Ref3's today
We had company so I could not explore too much. Got em hooked up to my NAD S100/S200. Wow, I have to turn em up past 11:30! I ain't never turned speakers up that high (AUDES Blues and Polk RT35's I think). At first they sounded a bit dark. Too laid back upstairs. After about an hour the high end started to open up. I listened with and without my REL Storm III. Fraid to say the soundstage was much deeper without it. Too bad old buddy. Huge soundstage. Wall to wall sound. And deep. But still a bit laid back for my tastes. Kinda wish they still included the tweeter switch. Would switch it to high. My purist S100 preamp doesn't even have a balance pot let alone a treble control! Gonna leave it on all night and tomorrow day.
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