All vandersteen users ?

I am a Vandersteen user. These speakers are one of the great bargains at any of their price levels. The only sure way of deciding if the speaker/amp combination is to your liking is to set them up in your room and listen to them together. In my experience the quality of amp is even more important than the power output of it. Richard says that most user guarantee return cards say they use either Ayre or BAT equipment.

I, like one of the earlier posters in this thread have used VTL compact 100's
to power my 2ce sigs. I thought they sounded wonderful until I threw in a
380 watt Rotel 1090. This amp took the Vandys to the next level!
Since then, I have tried other solid state designs rated at 200 watts or above,
and have come to the conclusion that the 2ce's sound there best with big power. At least for my ears.

As a hard core Vandersteen lover and owner all the info I've heard and read about Vandys says that they like power, and I find that to be true. But I've also been told that the quality of the amp is equally important. You want a big power supply and transformers. I used to have 2CIs, which I loved and still miss, and was pushing them with a Parasound HC 100WPC amp which sounded nice, but I couldn't really push the 2CIs with it, as they will take 160 watts. I found an old Soundcraftsmen Pro Power 10, which is actually 2 completely separate bridgeable amps in one chassis, and it's great because then you can bi-amp from one unit. The Pro Power 10 puts out something like 235 WPC into 8 ohms, and as soon as I hooked it up the 2CIs started roaring. It's nice to have all that power because I can be throwing 100 watts into my speakers and the amp is just breezing along. I think that all equipment sounds better when it's not being run at close to full capacity. And if you can find any MFA tube amps jump on them. A friend of mine has a pair and they are the best I've heard yet, better than McCormick and Krell and Perraux and McIntosh and everything else. What a wonderful sounding pair of amps. And plenty of power, 200 wpc plus. But I digress. YES, more power is better.
MJWPicMan.

Please indulge me bringing up an old thread. Given, as I state under my system, I need to use my 2ce sigs in my tv setup room, I feel I am wasting the classe amp. I am considering a wyred for sound dac 1 as an upgrade to my listed secondary system which is turning out to be primary system. Is it crazy to move the smaller Nad amp to the Vandersteen 2ce system given that its main function is tv/ blu Ray?

I get excellent sound and loud enough for me with a CJ CAV-50 45W integrated tube amp, with Vandy 2ce sigII. Of course my room is 14x16x8 ft.

Vinny