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SEEKING AN AMPLIFIER THAT MATES WELL WITH MARTIN LOGAN 11 A IMPRESSIONS

Room is 18' long by 11 foot wide with 8 foot ceilings and light drapes on order for rear wall. I sit about 10 feet from the speakers.

Current Equipment: 1. Martin Logan 11A 4 feet from rear wall and 16 inches from side wall. Set up by dealer using Anthem to maximize the internal woofers.

2. Cary Audio 306/200 as a transport with Chord Qutest DAC

3. Conrad Johnson tube power amp classic 62   65 watts per channel

which replaced Rogue Audio Atlas Magnum II 100 watts/channel-CJ sounds better.

4. Rogue Audio Preamp RP-1

Not happy with the sound, speakers sound anemic to me. I was thinking that a more powerful amp would bring the speakers to life. I realize that the woofers have a built in 375 watt amp.  In short, what amp would work better than my current set up? I'm assuming a better match of amplifier would improve the overall sound. 

Thank you. 

 

 

 

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I have a pair of ESL11As, which replaced a pair of Montis. I sit about the same distance away as you do, and the speakers are 9’ apart. I have a somewhat larger room, and the back of the speaker bass box is c. 2’ away from the front wall and the speakers about 4’ from each side wall.

I use a pair of Benchmark AHB2s in mono mode, driven from an RME ADI-2 PRO FS R BE and volumio/RPi4 for digital and a Miyajima Madake plus a SOTA Acrux for vinyl. I also have a pair of subs.

Cable is a pair of Mogami speaker cables about 6' long.

The sound is absolutely not anaemic, it is, in fact, amazingly dynamic.

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