Watt Puppy 6 with tube amp.

While I'm not sure I believe the 6's and 7's are an easier load than the 5.1's. The 5.1's have a nasty impedence curve that require some serious muscle. Don't use a 100 watt tube amp with the 5.1's. Why not simply arrange a home demo with your ARC dealer and determine how much tube power you'll need?

I'm running Jadis JA-100s on my 6s with much enjoyment. I certainly agree with the ARC and Atma-Sphere recommendations as well. Don't know the BAT. However, I have just heard the Halcro Dm58 ss monoblocs and think I'm going to make the jump from tubes to ss after 25 years (yikes!). Pray for me.

I'm running a pair of W/P 6 with Atma-Sphere MA1 MKII.2 and they are simply amazing. My room is 16 x 19 and I listen mostly to Jazz and R&B. Never had any problems cranking it up. I went through Pass, Kora, VTL, and a few others before I decided to go with the Atma-Sphere. I don't regret it one bit. If you want more detail drop me an Email. To me the Atma-Sphere fit my taste. As for maintance mine are trouble free. I biased them about a month ago and that is about it.

I've been running W/P 6's w/ ARC VTM-200 monoblocks for a couple of years w/ great results. They have more than enough power to drive the 6's to very high spl's. I listen to alot of jazz, as well as classic rock. When I want to crank the rock- and I DO CRANK IT- I still have plenty of headroom, no compression of dynamics. Wilson uses ARC amps at the factory (I believe they have VTM-200's, actually) and ARC and Wilson are considered a synergistic combination by many.

IMHO, tube amps are the way to go. I don't own a pair, but have listened to them several times at a local dealer while audioning cartridges. The solid state amps(no names, not the point) that I heard with them sounded cold and very hifi. FWIW, the national sales manager for Wilson uses Atmasphere but any high quality tube amp would work well(I heard Audio Research).

I have w/p 6's in a room that's 18x21. I'm running a single BAT vk60. 60w/ ch. Works pretty darn good. Never runs out of gas on music. Once, during the movie U-571, when some depth charges were going off, I noticed it whimped out. I mostly listen to rock, jazz, acoustically, some classical. No large orchestral stuff.

I'm sure dual VK60's or a vk75se will be better, but bettering the front end seems to make more of a difference.

Send me a email if you want some more details...