Class T amps and Zu Druid Credenza's

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.

i've tried about 20 different amp combos with my druids and all i can say is a little power dosen't hurt. about 35 or so. i used an old oxix a21 with great sound naim nait, pure sound tube int. bewitched int. all killer. theres also the mccormack micro stuff amp and pre that should fill the bill as i use them with my druid clones[druid drivers in a homade box] my pair of amps cost $650 pre/amp. when i, if i ever finish my speakers i'll post 'em . 13ply birch slate plynth oil caps .my heman amp is a dna 500 and like i've said in other post 135db is cool.