Best amp pairing for Focal Kanta 1s


Currently driving Kanta 1s (acquired last week) using NAD M33 and am somewhat happy with the results but wonder if there are better matches to squeeze more out of Kantas. Any advice is greatly appreciated. 

niko79

@niko79 imo I’d probably stick with the BlueHeaven cables you have now unless you were to jump past the Iridium up to something like the 4-wire Cygnus with Cardas. Even between Parsec and Cygnus, a different result. And between Cygnus and Clear Reflection, a different result yet again as an owner of all of these, priors, fwiw.

I will need a DAC and a streamer, right? I have a Roon Core already. 

Look into Small Green Computer to run your core and the Sonore for the endpoint.  Plenty enough $$ lefter over for DAC of choice

Thanks for the Small Green Computer and Sonore recommendations.  If you have any questions, please reach out using the contact us button on the bottom right of our website, smallgreencomputer.com.  Thanks

@decooney Thank you for your input. Yea since I am already invested in all Bluehaven cables, changing to the other brand is probably not the most effective move. But what in hi fi audio is? :D

Anyway, I will just get an XLR interconnect for my streamer to amp connection and be done with it for now. If I decide to upgrade the DAC, I will rethink this again. 

@niko79 "But what in hi fi audio is? :D"

Perhaps my suggestion was that some lateral moves can be frustrating to spend good money on something with little to no improvement for the sake of "making a change". Perhaps I made a few curious lateral moves myself and have lessons learned to share :)