Amp Options for Evolution Acoustics Speakers

I've heard them sound great with Spectral amp/pre/cdp, as well as Dartzeel. Pretty damn impressive speaker every time. Just about the only thing I wish I could afford to buy. Yeah, it would be fun to hear them with my Atma-Spheres...Cheers,

Spencer

I also use the EA MM2 with the Dart amp, but have also tried them with Krell and ASR Emitter II amps and these speakers sound excellent with them as well. These speakers are extremely well designed and present an easy load to drive so that you can pick just about any amp to drive them... just pick your favorite flavor and go.

As much as I hear that these speakers don't need much power to drive them, I believe you need, certainly more than 100W, to play them load enough to enjoy Rock music. So I found Dartzeel Amp to run out of steam with in this situation. I am specifically interested in knowing what other SS Amps are good match with these speakers. It seems to me that one needs about 200W to get these speakers sound really good with Rock music. Any thoughts?

try the lamm 2.2 which is a hybrid amplifer with plenty of power....I used to own it and love it......mine had some quality control issue but the sound is yummy....I know have the dartzeel amplifier with the mm2 speakers and am suprised to hear you think it cannot play rock music well.....what cd player or tt are you using cuz you should be able to rock out real well....

Mikeaudio, those of us with the MM3/MM2/dart are curious about your comment;

As much as I hear that these speakers don't need much power to drive them, I believe you need, certainly more than 100W, to play them load enough to enjoy Rock music. So I found Dartzeel Amp to run out of steam with in this situation

maybe describe the music and some specifics about what did or did not happen. i'd love to try that same music in my very large, well damped room and see what happens. i can tell you i've played AC/CD, Led Zep and lots of other very agressive rock at concert volume levels in my room for large groups of people and the whole room was alive and real. the dart just rolled along.

i can get the 'eyes' on my dart to 'blink' very very occasionally when i'm doing 'warp 9' at about 110db on torture test tracks......but never in any actual musical situation. and even then; there is no hardness or edgyness evident.

i would agree that having more headroom might be beneficial very occasionally; but not at the expense of losing all the other unique attributes the dart alone brings. but maybe that's just me.....others may choose many more megawatts and less refinement.