Rethm Maargra Speaker: High efficiency, very easy impedance, built for SET amps.


These, very easy to drive Rethm speakers
https://www.stereophile.com/content/rethm-maarga-loudspeaker


Quite the opposite of the very hard to drive, (most of the Wilson) range of speakers.
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/wilson-s-chronosonic-xvx-loudspeaker-over-3-4-of-a-million-us-dollars

Read the listening test reviews and the lab tests on both and make up your own mind, about each, and what will sound the best and more truthful to the recordings.

Cheers George


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Have you heard them yourself George?  I have not heard the Maargra, but I have heard the cheaper Bhaava (also with fullrange driver and powered woofers), and I thought it was very good for the money.  It probably doesn't hurt that the Bhaava is quite nice looking.

I am a fan of low-powered amps, particularly tube amps.  I own three of that variety, the "biggest" weighing in a 6.5 watts per channel.  I've played my system with various solid state amps, and the one I liked the most was the First Watt J-2.  

It is good to see more efficient and easy to drive speakers coming on the market.  I do like a number of systems using full/wide range drivers, particularly when those drivers are actually used in multi-way systems.  For pure single driver systems, I like the speakers made by Charney, particularly when AER drivers are used.  The Cube Audio Nenuphar also delivers the goods one expects from single driver systems--clarity, vivid and exciting sound--but it has more of the roughness and peaky quality than the Charney.  I also like the single driver systems by Voxativ which also deliver the goods without an excess of bads.  In multi-way systems with fullrange drivers, I like the canoe-shaped speaker from SoundKaos.  I've heard quite a few custom-made systems using such drivers built by Deja Vu Audio in Virginia--my favorite utilizes an old Jensen M-10 13" field coil driver run fullrange, with a simple highpass filter to a tweeter; another uses a new G.I.P 4165 reproduction 12" field-coil to a tweeter.