Planning to buy SF Ellipsa...any input?

Judging from the performance of Mac 402s with matching pre amp on my friends Sasha I think there are better choices. My MF NuVista integrated bested the Macs by a good margin. I would look at CJ, AR, Pass, Audia in that price range.

I checked the HIFICRITIC review; the amp they used for the test was a CJ 350, an amp I know well as I have one. An Ayre integrated also worked well. They found the sensitivity to be 91db so ultra high power would not be requited; in fact they said a 25 watt amp could be used if very high volumes were not wanted. It would take 300 watts of program material giving about 110db sound levels. It was a moderately difficult load but nothing like the Sasha in that respect. It was a very positive review and it remains in their top recommended speaker class.

thanks for your inputs. i should be getting the SF Ellipsa in the next few days..still cannot make-up my mind regarding the amp/pre. i presently have mac 402s with xrt28s and they sound magical. thus am biased to stay with Mac but maybe explore the tubes with the Ellipsa

In the August '07 issue of The Absolute Sound the reviewer used mainly MBL gear and was very impressed with the speakers performance.

McIntosh C2300 tube pre & MC452 amp (if you don't have room for monoblocks). Mc and Sf were menat for each other.