q3 magico

I have Q3 now for several weeks. I think the description of Q3's sound in Ultra Audio is very accurate especially regarding absence of distortion/coloration, tranparency and the bass. Never heard any speaker with clean, highly detailed bass like Q3 before except in Q5. I only heard Tidal once but in a rather poorly setup room so it would not be fair to compare. I am not sure if I would stick out my neck and say that it is the best speakers under $50,000 since I have not heard them all under good conditions but of those I heard, I prefer Q3 over the quite a bit more expensive Rockport,Wilson, YG Kipod, and Lumen White speakers for sure.

Clavil, I am using Lamm L2 Ref/M2.2 pre/power with Q3 currently.

I think Q3 certainly can be matched with lower power amplifier but it certainly will benefit from more power as well but not quite to the same degree as Q5. Soulution 710 120w certainly will drive it very very loud in medium size room. However, like V3 and Q5 (to a lesser degree), it can benefit from a bit more power. On my Lamm M2.2, I have 2 options, high gain mode with 220W in 8 ohms, 440w in 4 ohms or low gain mode with 220W in 4 ohms with more bias into class A. Generally Lamm recommends using low gain mode for any speakers with 1-6 ohms impedance. At least with Q3, I prefer using Lamm in high gain mode as dynamic and bass does improve quite a bit. Not that I discourage low output amps as I think the midrange/treble would be very special with low power tube amp but there may be some trade off as well.