Maggies and Wells Audio together

A little late to this game, but I have used an Innamorata with Maggie .7s and the sound was hardly "laid back" as Mr. Schroeder suggests.  I think vivid and robust would far more accurate adjectives.

@douglas_schroeder
I haven’t heard nearly enough speakers to have the remotest clue of what "the end all, and be all" might be. :) But I will say that I am quite fond of my new-to-me pair of Sonus Faber Guarneri Homages. They’re kinda special, I do think.

With the GH's especially, it’s fun to simply listen to music and not think about the gear. Sorry for the potentially off-topic aside.

A rhetorical question Douglas: I happily OWN a pair of .7’s, why would I want to read your review, :)

@jimbones
+1 and I fully understand.... :)

Best wishes to all for the coming year.

douglas_schroeder

"enrichment" "wider experience" aaaah, there are the tickets to ride that I must have been missing. But at least I now have a couple of new terms to add to the old audiophile lexicon. :)

After decades of fiddling with this and that component, at this point, I greatly prefer to hit play, sit back, and enjoy. But then again, I’m not a reviewer, nor do I enjoy obsessing about much of anything these days. I do, however still worry about the world my two beautiful daughters will inherit.

My .7s sounded just fine powered by the Wells amp, either with a Luminescence tube preamp, or the Wells Commander.

One can mix and match until one can no longer mix and match.

YMMV.

Enjoy your reviewing. BTW, didn’t you write somewhere that you regretted selling your Wells amp?

One fundamental principle in evaluating any and all levels of audio gear is to avoid using the plague known as "smooth jazz" as any kind of remotely useful indicator.