mikelavigne, thank you for your reply.
Excuse me in advance for further vocabulary and grammatically mistakes, i'm french.
My system is quite unusual, i compose with my speakers (i do some kind of expérimental music)
Before the 802d, i had monitors speakers, then i decide to improve my equipment. I had the choice to continue with monitors or to follow another path.
I work at home so i was listening music on the monitor speakers... that bring me to consider a way to work AND really enjoy hours of listening music.
So i decided to buy the 802D (because someone have them to sell for a good price and they have quite good reputation).
After that buy, i had to find an inexpensive amplifier that can manage these speakers so i bought the nuforce ref 9 and NO preamp.
So my system is now a laptop with prism dac/adc, no preamp, the nuforce and the 802D -i know it is a weird system and not in a good sense-
i rarely buy new product, i prefer to construct slowly but with the best i can afford (in the second hand market in general).
And it is time now to replace the nuforce amplifiers (a bargain for the price but definitely not what i want to listen from my speakers)and find a preamp -i think, maybe i'm wrong, that it is more logical to choose the amplifiers first and after the preamp that feet well with the ampli-
For the size of the room, i move out in 3/4 months (to Monreal) so it is a big -?- but it would probably be between 30m2 and 50m2 i need space to work.
After your post, i hesitate now between the dartzeel and the Tenor.
I have emailed Hervé Deletraz -I definitely love their way of conceiving audio gears AND the way they deal with customers : a reference- he told me that an english customer have made the mix Dartzeel with 802D and it match well, the only possible issue is the power (100w)... is it enough for a 90dB efficiency speaker to work with?
On the other side the tenor, it has more power but you say : "the Tenor is currently without any manufacturer's warranty as Tenor went out of business a couple of years ago. OTOH i have heard it is coming back in some form soon. service is avalible however and tech support"
it can be a crtical issue if there is no longer way to repair it in the future (for now it's ok but in 2 years?)
i hope i haven't been too difficult to read (?!)
Samuel
Excuse me in advance for further vocabulary and grammatically mistakes, i'm french.
My system is quite unusual, i compose with my speakers (i do some kind of expérimental music)
Before the 802d, i had monitors speakers, then i decide to improve my equipment. I had the choice to continue with monitors or to follow another path.
I work at home so i was listening music on the monitor speakers... that bring me to consider a way to work AND really enjoy hours of listening music.
So i decided to buy the 802D (because someone have them to sell for a good price and they have quite good reputation).
After that buy, i had to find an inexpensive amplifier that can manage these speakers so i bought the nuforce ref 9 and NO preamp.
So my system is now a laptop with prism dac/adc, no preamp, the nuforce and the 802D -i know it is a weird system and not in a good sense-
i rarely buy new product, i prefer to construct slowly but with the best i can afford (in the second hand market in general).
And it is time now to replace the nuforce amplifiers (a bargain for the price but definitely not what i want to listen from my speakers)and find a preamp -i think, maybe i'm wrong, that it is more logical to choose the amplifiers first and after the preamp that feet well with the ampli-
For the size of the room, i move out in 3/4 months (to Monreal) so it is a big -?- but it would probably be between 30m2 and 50m2 i need space to work.
After your post, i hesitate now between the dartzeel and the Tenor.
I have emailed Hervé Deletraz -I definitely love their way of conceiving audio gears AND the way they deal with customers : a reference- he told me that an english customer have made the mix Dartzeel with 802D and it match well, the only possible issue is the power (100w)... is it enough for a 90dB efficiency speaker to work with?
On the other side the tenor, it has more power but you say : "the Tenor is currently without any manufacturer's warranty as Tenor went out of business a couple of years ago. OTOH i have heard it is coming back in some form soon. service is avalible however and tech support"
it can be a crtical issue if there is no longer way to repair it in the future (for now it's ok but in 2 years?)
i hope i haven't been too difficult to read (?!)
Samuel