I first listened to the sopra 2s driven by McIntosh and the sound was as mentioned above extremely smooth yet lacking transparency. Then the dealer hooked them with devialet and was love at first listen. Since me room is 12'x30', I went for the sopra 3s without even hearing them and am glad I did. They are being driven by devialet 400s and are paired with 2 tel gibraltar 2s. My dealer wanted to sell me gibraltar 1s but I thought that was overkill. 95% of the time is used listening to music and the rest for 5.2 home theater. Btw, i compared them with the b&w 802d3s and was truly disappointed in the latter
