Anyone own Eggleston Works Isabel?


Just curious if anyone has heard this or spent time with it in your room. Also, what amplification did you use? Thanks.
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12 years after I will be, about september or october, the owner of a pair of Isabel and I think to use 2 mono amps meridian 105 with them.  They are vintage amps but with a power of 100wx2 of good quality and I'm sure they ll be a good couple, in my little room. At the moment the amps give their power to a couple of merlin tsm that uses about the same morel woofer of the Isabel  with big satisfaction, but I wanted that esotar tweeter I have appreciated so much at a friend s home.   In any case some years ago I bought a pair of Vtl tiny triode that I will be glad to test with the new arrival.  
Please make me know your actual choice (with the Isabel?).  

It is about 2 years that I have these Egglestone Isabel and I’m very happy with them, in my little room dedicated to Music. I  use a Spectral dma50  to drive them and I found this a good match. The only fault with the Isabel is the deep bass, but the amp makes a good work so that you can find some bass, in spite of the dimensions, but losing  the ultra bass, that would be a mission impossible to get. 

After 5 years that I'm listening with Ew Isabel I think that they are very good speakers.  But I found that they prefer  a valve amp.  Or it is me that I prefer valve ?   So the spectral 50,  that is very good but a little too analitical, was changed for a  6550tube   50w x2 amp, that have done more air and musicality to the final result. without loss of analisys. 

I have some question about the rightness of the crossover frequency (3500hz),  when maybe a 2200 should let the tweeter more work to do (some like the merlin vsm for ex.).    Some thoughts about ?