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Moving from Dynaudio Confidence 3?

hi

first, to avoid confusion, these are the Dynaudio-made, now out of production two ways, not the 3-way Dynaudio Acoustics C3s.
I bought them about one year and a half ago at a good price as the owner switched to Reference Series Infinitys.
I'm using them with a DIY class D amp and an obscure (local brand) DAC.
while they are great for certain types of music, the overall impression is that they're rather uninvolving and tend to sound good only at medium to high volumes. I tried few amps and DACs (nothing fancy) but the overall impressions remained unchanged.
most reviews say they need a power plant as an amp but I'd rather not embark that frustration-producing merry-go-round of synergistic amp searching.
I'd rather move to less demanding speakers that sound more musical and involving and make me stop listening to the gear.
I don't want to go up in price and for me the key points are decent bass (not necessarily super-fast) and musicality. maybe I should mention that I'm not exactly the soft jazz listener, there's basically few musical genres I don't listen to so a speaker that excels with say chamber music but is barely listenable with everything else is not a good speaker in my book.
what is your opinion? sell for something else? keep and try to enjoy them best until I find their "soul mate" amp?
gn77b

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I've owned many pairs on Dyn speakers over the last decade, all of the way up to the C4's. IME, it's difficult to find a speaker that excels in every music genre, so if you have not already done so, consider trying a higher powered tube amp or tube integrated (at least 100WPC). Tube amps (not all of them) have a way of adding musicality & realism that I've yet to experience with SS amps.

If you don't want to try a tube amp and are set on finding a speaker that excels in musical involvement & emotional connection, look at offerings from Daedalus and Harbeth. Neither brand will excel with hard rock, but speakers that excel in rock or rap are unlikely to excel in more subtle genre's like jazz, classical, vocals, etc...
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