Amp or blocks for Total Eclipse


Have a pair of ex demo TE’s on trial – having trouble driving them.
Tried a Try 335? Valve integrated – grainy and veiled
Xindak mono blocks – bass light
Bada 380? 20 anniversaries – no detail
As usual a bit money challenged – your thoughts?
fotophred
I use Leben CS660 tube power amp (2x40 watts) with my TE II
speakers,excellent sound,these speakers are one of the best and they like tube amps with 16 ohm tap.
It is a pity that Israel do not produce TE no more and the new line does not perform as good as TE because of the ribbon tweteer I hope he again begins to produce this legendary TE for all low wattage tube amp owners.
Fotophred,
One point I forgot to mention in my ealier post is that I a have a push-pull amplifier. I`ts the very fine Bella Extreme 100 monoblocks (V-cap version) by Response Audio. This amp is conservatively rated at 100 watt pentode/ 60watts triode and is quite powerful and dynamic. However the sound with the 8 watt SET frankenstein is as big and dynamic but more transparent and palpable. These speakers will work with both low and high power tubes and solid state amplifiers. You`ll need high quaility amps as the T.E. are very resolving(but are`nt analytical at all). Hope this helps.
Thank you for your suggestions
Will hunt around and see which of these suggestions can be found locally (New Zealand)

A chap popped around with a Lavardin 45w integrated SS
Nice sounding piece of equipment.
Great stage and sound – the Lavardin happily pointed out any defects in the recordings and exposed a few flaws in the source.
My only reservation is a lack of ability when the volume was wound up.