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.
tantra
Are you running the Gallos thru the REL xover? If so, don't and see if they sound better.
Are they new? If so you should wait at least a month (for any new component) to break in and report back on your findings.
My understanding is that too many people were breaking off the tweeter switch, so ...

I know I haven't moved mine and wouldn't miss it.

Dave
A good question to ask Gallo is if the tweeter-stepup transformer still has the 3 output leads on it, whether the switch is there or not.

But as my predecessors have written, they do REQUIRE an extended break-in.
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