Tannoy or Volti

@charles007100     Lots of good advice here.  As I mentioned to you yesterday, I would give Greg Roberts a call.  In fact, if you are spending $16K I'd go to Baxter and spend a day with Greg at his shop.  He and his wife hosted me twice; let me sleep over on a bed in his shop.  We auditioned all of his speakers and I brought my Klipsch Belles with me and we compared them to Razz, Luceras and Rivals.   I then picked the veneer I wanted from his large inventory and 6 weeks later I had a beautiful pair of Rivals made just for me.

I have driven them with my solid state amps (XA25 and SIT 3) and tube amps; Cary CAD300SEI (WE 300B), Quicksilver MidMonos (EL34) and Tool Shed Transcendence (WE 300B).  All sounded great but my favorite set-up is the QS mono blocks fed by a PrimaLuna Dialogue Pre. EL34s just sound sublime with the Rivals.  I'm awaiting delivery of a Tool Shed preamp so I'm hoping the Toolshed combo will outshine everything.

I have a 2x12" 1,000 watt subwoofer that has been collecting dust since the Rivals arrived.  My Klipsch Belles needed subwoofer support but the Rivals low end is super defined and deep.

Good luck and happy listening!

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what have you compared the JBLs too?…listening to side by side?…and amps are you using …

I listen to all three, not side by side, different days at Harman International at 527 Madison Ave NY with Mark Levinson amps and my favorite was the JBL SK9900 very balanced from top to bottom. I have owned many JBL speakers I prefer double 15’’ woofers but the JBL Everest II is way out of my price range. See here

For what it’s worth, I have JBL 4435’s actively bi-amped I am very happy! 

Mike

@whiteknee I see Greg has a used Lucera at a marked down price and also a Razz marked down…how close is the Lucera to the Rival?…the Alan Eaton 2A3 monos with the Meitner MA3 Dac is my favorite set up…will I be kicking myself if I don’t go all the way with the Rival…