Speaker Pairing With Amplifier


Hello everyone! Just joined. I recently just bought a pair of MartinLogan Motion 35XTi speakers and I’m enjoying them, however my amplifier is... A bit lackluster for them. I’m running a Technics SA-R230 AVR from the late 80s, it has enough power, but it’s just not driving them to the full potential.

 

I’m thinking if I go vintage of getting a Harman Kardon Citation 12, or going modern and getting a PM6007 or PM7000N. Maybe a Rega io, was curious if anyone has some real world experience with good pairings for ribbon tweeter speakers. They can be a bit... Picky.

 

Wondering if anyone has any recommendations to go with?

 

Thanks everyone and I’m happy to be here.

 

astal

Showing 1 response by ghdprentice

To increase the sound quality I would recommend going to an integrated audio amp. AVRs have too many functions in one box… and particularly older stuff. Given your interest in old stuff…I would look at NAD and Rotel integrated amps. They will supply far greater current and sound quality… I would only consider wattage within these brands because wattage is not really the parameter to judge the power of the amp… it is current. NAD and Rotel have competed on real power and sound quality for decades. Most of the rest of them on how many cool knobs and functions they had.