Thoughts on Egglestonworks Andra II

According to the Stereophile review of it, the speakers are a 6 ohm load speaker, which is "easy" to drive. They drop down to 3 ohms in the 50-100 hertz range. I, also, have been told that they need power. Audioblazer--I'm surprised that the bass was overwelming with Pass gear. I have a Pass Labs X 0.2 preamp and a Jeff Rowland 302 amp. My system is bass-shy! It could have something to do with the Nordost Valhalla/SPM speakercable that I'm running. I may go to Transparent or Siltech for speaker cable to beef up the bass. Also, my problem could be that the Nordost doesn't work well with the fast Rowland. The Nordost is a very fast speaker wire. Tough to tell what will work until you try different combinations. Overall, I'm very impressed with the Andra 2. Excluding some of the light bass in the music that I listen to, these speakers portray a phenominal live sound. Very life-like with a great soundstage! Stan

This is a correction to my 01/04/06 post. Not long after I posted that, I was cleaning the speaker cable posts on my amp and I noticed that three of the four negative posts were loose in their respective bases. Very loose! The amp made a trip to Jeff Rowland where the speaker post bases were replaced and the amp's internal wires that lead to the posts were refloated. I've had the amp back for about 5 days now and I've never seen my bass drivers move like they do now. I now have great bass and very wide bandwidth sound. My Andra 2's aren't bass-shy any more! I think that I'll be hanging on to these speakers for a very long time.