Class T amps and Zu Druid Credenza's

I plan on purchasing a REL sub to compliment.

I own Druids with the 08 drivers, and my Super-T amp sounded good but not great. My experience is that despite the 101dB rating, the Zu FRD needs a bit of power to really come alive. I went from Monarchy SM-70 Pros (fabulous sonics but too noisy) to the Super-T (not enough power) to an Almarro A205A (still not enough power) to a First Watt F4 clone (REALLY nice but not quite enough current) to my current Audiosector Patek, which sounds just right. My only curiosity now is around OTL amps, and I might try an Atma-sphere S30 someday.

I ran all of these with a tube preamp. I never tried a higher power TriPath amp, but it might be worth a demo with the Credenzas. All the amps I tried were under $1,000.

David

Just in case you didn't know, Tripath amps cannot have a common speaker neutral without shorting out the chip. This means that using a sub would require a sub output jack on the amp. You cannot simply bridge from the speaker outputs as most RELs are designed.

Tgrisham,

All the REL's I am looking at have a line level sub input. I will be using a preamp with a line level sub output with the amp.

I've run my Druid Mk4/08 with 30W class-t and 100 WPC class-d ICE, and aside from level and some bass control (as you would expect) there is little to distinguish them. That sonic-t amp really is very good, and when you get right down to it, class-d is class-d. I am astonished by how little difference there is between a $50 implementation and a $2000 implementation.

You are right though, you need at least 60W for the Druids. They are efficient, but they are not horns.