Hi Ozy - am curious if/why you sold your Sunrays... ?
Would the Luxman 800 monoblock be adequate to drive the Sunrays ? Between that and Vitus monoblocks, any reccomendations anyone ?
Also a question to anyone who has experienced / or has an opinion on both the Sunrays and the Contriva Diacera SE s : Are the sunrays much more difficult (versus the CDSE) to place in a room because of the side firing woofers or is that myth ? Would one need much more expensive gear (especially power amps) to get near-optimal sound from a Sunray versus a CDSE ? Would a 10-20k USD pair of used transistor monoblock power amps on a CDSE sound better than the the same pair on a sunray because the sunray is unoptimized ? Would Guns and Roses or Led zeppelin sound better/worse/much better on a sunray (assuming 10-20k usd used transistor monoblock amps) versus a CDSE ? Would anyone contemplate a Sunray in their living room (listening area larger than normal bedrooms but entire size of living room 3 times the size of the listening area and mostly behind the listening area) or is it just much easier to place a CDSE versus the pick up in sound quality on the Sunray versus the CDSE ? Am sure classical music and voices will sound better on a Sunray but was concerned about punchy base dynamics and wondered if the visceral feeling of the piano cera and contriva diacera was as prevalent/less or more so i the Sunray... apologies - many questions. In short, am i going to get a meaningful quality of sound improvement for the wide range of music i hear (from classical to acoustic to rock and hard rock) i like to hear from the Sunray placed in a reasonably casual setting ?
Would the Luxman 800 monoblock be adequate to drive the Sunrays ? Between that and Vitus monoblocks, any reccomendations anyone ?
Also a question to anyone who has experienced / or has an opinion on both the Sunrays and the Contriva Diacera SE s : Are the sunrays much more difficult (versus the CDSE) to place in a room because of the side firing woofers or is that myth ? Would one need much more expensive gear (especially power amps) to get near-optimal sound from a Sunray versus a CDSE ? Would a 10-20k USD pair of used transistor monoblock power amps on a CDSE sound better than the the same pair on a sunray because the sunray is unoptimized ? Would Guns and Roses or Led zeppelin sound better/worse/much better on a sunray (assuming 10-20k usd used transistor monoblock amps) versus a CDSE ? Would anyone contemplate a Sunray in their living room (listening area larger than normal bedrooms but entire size of living room 3 times the size of the listening area and mostly behind the listening area) or is it just much easier to place a CDSE versus the pick up in sound quality on the Sunray versus the CDSE ? Am sure classical music and voices will sound better on a Sunray but was concerned about punchy base dynamics and wondered if the visceral feeling of the piano cera and contriva diacera was as prevalent/less or more so i the Sunray... apologies - many questions. In short, am i going to get a meaningful quality of sound improvement for the wide range of music i hear (from classical to acoustic to rock and hard rock) i like to hear from the Sunray placed in a reasonably casual setting ?