More power for my Duos?


Not completely satisfied with my Wavelength Venus 45s driving the Duos.
Kind of on the lean side. Great with vocals but somehow weak with big orchestras. I have tried different tubes, NOS, Vaic and TJ’s. Maybe Avangardes boss is right. Needs 10 to 20 watts. Anybody has experience with Jotas, Wavelength Cardinals and Wyetech Saphires, 300Bs with the Avangardes?
wham1000

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I am using the Audiopax 88s with the Duos and they are very musical and plenty powerful to play at live levels. They have a very quick warmup 10 minutes to sound good. The timbre lock controls are one more way to dial in your sound are quite useful.

The Duos are very picky speakers about everything in the system being just right especially the positioning of the speakers and the crossover setting.

I am convinced that Luke above did not exhaust his efforts in making his Duos sound good, otherwise they would sound great. The Duos having a powered subwoofer and crossover control are anything but lean sounding. Even though there are only 2 controls there is a lot of possiblity for integrating the woofers to the mid horn and if done right they won't sound lean.
Luke

In a nutshell it sounds like you were saying the Duos don't sound good, which is fine. I don't think they sound lean, in fact they can have as much weight as you want with the controls. Obviously these speakers have their weakness which is the bass and integration. So far I'm not as bothered by it as some. It's the dynamics and the ability to connect to the music as in a live acoustic event that makes the horns awesome. I've not heard a box speaker that can match the horns for dynamics and that is where the energy and excitment comes from. Those Hyperions must be something worth checking out if they can match the Duos for dynamics.