LS3/5. What do u think ...the best match

Isn't Excel HiFi out of business? Seems to me they went out a few years ago. Are they back? The website isn't- that's for sure.

In response to what figore states,there is an extremely brilliant audioguru who works in Excel HiFi in HONG KONG,he matches his LS3/5a with the Futterman OTL monoblocks,and this is a guy with access to any audio gear he wishes to have.
Sphere.

I've only heard the combo once, because one of my employees owned a set of LS3/5as. We ran them on our S-30. The speaker is an effortless load (16 ohms) so it is very tube friendly. I remember being quite surprised at how well they did bass. And the rest of the range was fine. the S-30 is as big an amp as you want to put on them; the LS3/5s don't take a lot of power.

Have fun!

no modern tube amps work fine with LS3/5???

i cant believe that we have to look for vintage amps to drive LS3/5to their best.....

A lot of LS3/5a fans in Hong Kong agree that Leak 12.1 vintage amps are the best tube amps for these speakers. Many people also got very good results with Quad II and Eico vintage amps.

i'd like to read formthat person who in someother thread said about LS3/5 working at their best only with the right tube amps......WHICH?? TELL US PLEASE

sorry ..dont put them down..(integrated amp for a myth?)

(Correction to my FYI earlier):
LS3/5A is reviewed by Paul Seydor in the new (Nov. 2006)
TAS.

FYI: Reviewed in newest TAS (by Sallie Reynolds).

the ideal is the rogers e20 or e40 integrated.

in a forum here in audiogon i read someone said that they give their best with good tube amps. Any agrees? which amps..?

English made integrated: Onix, Cyrus, Sudgen, Naim. These little guys seems to like lower to mid power with lots of damping factor and solid current. They also liked my VTL Tiny Triodes at only 25wpc/triode.

Cables, might try the Signal Cable, they are very open.

I would imagine that the LS 3/5 would sound great with tubes.