any thoughts on apogee centaur speakers?

Cool. I used to own Centaur Minors-with a 6 inch driver. I had a difficult time getting a solid soundstage outta mine so I got rid of them over 10 years ago. I drove them with Aragon electronics and a cheap NAD cd player (it was 1995)In hind sight, the cheap cd source could be the reason for the poor performance. I wish I has a pair now to try thm again because all the reviews commented on how great the soundsage was.

Lucky guy, i owned 2 pairs of Apogee Major and 1 pair of the Minors, sold them all in mint ciondition, What a dummy i was. They are great speakers, KEEP THEM.........

Thanx for sharing your thoughts,I am keeping these!

I just purchased a pair and love them. What amps do your recommend?

I have owned a few pair of Apogees over the years, most recently the last hybrid ribbon model Cepheus 6. I agree that Apogees are special speakers, especially the larger planar models. Your Centaurs are similar to the Cepheus, a little less efficient and with only a single low end cone driver. They speakers can sound remarkable, if you have the right room and associated amp(s) to drive them properly.

While the hybrid ribbons are much easier to drive than the planar models, but they still required plenty of current for in order to accommodate the room size required for these speakers, complex music, and higher volume levels.

I tried several combinations of amps, settled on a Krell (remember them?) and finally a pair of reworked McCormack DNA-1 speakers bridged into mono. If I were doing it now I think that it would be interesting to test out the Job 225, preferably a pair of them.

I never had much success with tubes and Apogee speakers, but some have reported good results with the larger Atma-Sphere MA-series OTL amps. I assume that you would need to use an autoformer such as the Zero in order to match the impedances.