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Tannoy Westminster amp matching question.

Hello again everyone. Its been a while but I'd like your advice if possible.

I'm waiting for a pair of Tannoy Westminster royal SE's to arrive ( end of dec ). And I'm wondering what to amps to match them with. I have very limited funds at the moment(budget of 3k or so), having lashed out on the speakers, and I'm thinking I'd like to go SET power amps again. So looking at second hand bargains. At the moment I'm thinking Sophia Electric 300b or Art Audio symphony II. Alternative suggestions please !!!!

To give you an idea of my tastes. The system I've put together, that I enjoyed the most, was Avantgarde Duo's and Yamamoto A08s. Loved it. I listen to all sorts of music: Rock, choral, opera, jazz. Love well done female vocals :-)

Thanks for your time.
borg7x9

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art80342
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I bought recently the westminister SE and am having the LFD Mistral integrated with ver good results. Adding in the Musical Fidelity tube buffer then having best of both worlds now with ease of solid state stability with that tube sound.

Have tried Bat vk55 mono blocks with vk32 with very disappointing results.
The Naim supernait also did not cut it.
LFD Mistral ( original old version ) 's clean sounding though only 50 w ( I think so) is sooooo nice.

I am now thinking of getting the Quad combination ...
art80342
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gentlemen,

i tried tubes within the BAT vk55 monoblocks 110w pc and all tube vk32 and found that the sound got muggy and dark when playing classical and orchestral pieces. vocals are as usual nice.

i then tried various solid state combos, then vocals sound cold and edgy but complicated classical and orchestral pieces sound nice.

my conclusion - then no single set up for all music generes.
i owned (still owining) - besides the tannoy westminister se also : vandersteen quattro + harbeth m30 + tannoy autograph mini all quite different in their type of music style / presentation.

for the westminister se, the best combi i have till date are: LFD mistral with a Musical Fidelity tube buffer front end + anti-cables IC. Speaker cables, i gave up on the anti cables (which would otherwise have been an excellent choice) becos of its difficult hadling ...

Any one tried the quad mono blocks with westminister ... all true british synergy...

rgds
art80342
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Gentlemen,

I was wrong about previous judgement on BAT / Tannoy Westminister compatibility!

Changed the Nordost Flatwyre - biwire version out , replacing with normal audio shack grade wires and the sound substantially opened up.

BAT can complement Tannoy!
art80342
65 posts
 
Came across a thread on upgrading the 'inferior components' within the latest tannoy westminister se and the author claimed to have obtained no official response from the maker but had shared the full procedures online - and the v positive results after swapping out the 'cheap' components - thereby totally eliminating the muffled sound...

Am trying to google for the above ...
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