Gallo reference /TAS vs Me

I find it hard to believe that it can sound much better with thier amp, than with your own. Especially if you have a processor that will scupt all of your output parameters. Mine sounded fantastic.

Mine are still breaking in, and I love them. That said, I think that my Maggie 3.6 were a better speaker. Wider soundstage, more accurate and transparent imaging. But much less bass, not just volume of depth, but not as focused.

But that is still nothing to moan about. These are a great and versitle speaker. I have rediscoverd my hard rock collection with these speakers. Led Zeppelin and Stone Temple Pilots thank you Anthony Gallo.

Amp is supposed be ready to be produced now, per Gallo. The Reference center is not nearly as far along.

I had some Ref3's for about a month and drove them with the complete opposite end of the amp spectrum. I kept my Innersound ESL 300 MKIII amp, per the suggestion of the guys at Gallo, and had great results. I whole heartedly agree about facing the woofers inward, also. I realize the response is depentdant on the sonics of the room, but I got a lot deeper, and seemingly quicker, bass in that configuration.

Also, I used a couple of extra channels from a Parasound 1206a amp to drive the second voice coil, using my PrePro (Anthem AVM30) crossover and high-pass/low-pass setting to control. It worked incredibly well. It was hard to believe how deep these little speakers would go!!

Good luck with them.