johnsonwu
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| Pass XA-160 and Avalon Eidolon Depending on your room size you may or may not need 160Ws of class A power.I have Eidolons driven by VAC PHI 70 monos, sometimes with Canary 309 (similar tube config) , and sometimescounterpoint Natural Progression Mono w AltaVista upgrades.I also... | |
| Best AMP for Avalon Eidolon, ARC, CAT, VAC..? Perhaps the VAC Phi 70s all round performance, including low frequency material playback, already kicks the derrier of the CAT when driving the Eidolons ;) | |
| Best AMP for Avalon Eidolon, ARC, CAT, VAC..? CAT amps... are you referring to JL2?Not sure if I can even think about go back to listening EL34 or KT88 amps with many tubes on each side anymore. | |
| Best AMP for Avalon Eidolon, ARC, CAT, VAC..? VAC PHI 70. They have enough power for 95% of the music anyone would want to listen to.I have tried all these over the last 7 years:Levinson 333 (sucks allround)VT200 (metallic, sucks allround)VT130 (acceptable only with Auricap mod and KT88)Class... | |
| Tube amp for Avalon Eidolon ? I am using VAC PHI 70s and they better all my previous ML333 (awful)VT200 (metallic)VT130 with KT88 and Auricap (OK)VAC Vintage 100 mono (getting there but sometimes strained)I listen to classical and Jazz mostly. | |
| down to earth amp for Avalon Eidolon To the original poster:Have you purchased the Eidolons yet?Don't change anything till you listen to the setup.I *started* my eidolons back in 2000 with Ref1 and VT200... awful.VT130 with capacitor mods (Auricap) and KT88 sounded decent, and a pair... | |
| VAC Phi 300 or CAT JL2 for the Avalon Vision? I have the VAC Phi 70 monos driving the original Eidolons.Initially I was concerned about the modest 65W but turns out there's absolutely no problems.If the Phi 300 is tuned to sound even 80% like the Phi 70s you'd have a clear winner. | |
| Tube amp for Avalon Eidolon ? VAC Vintage high power 100/100 or VAC PHI.BAT VK Monos work too if you replace the leaky Jensen caps.It's the quality that matters :)To the person who is using SF Power 3s:You are missing out a lot. | |
| Crazy? Lamm ML2/ML2.1 on Avalon Eidolon? Eidolons are much easier to drive than Ascent or Radian.You simply need about 60 Watts or so of Class A Tube powerand you can even play firebird or Carmina Burana through a pair of Eidolons... they are tube-loving but you cannot use Audio Research... | |
| electrostatic with detail? The request is not one of the better ML speakers. Audition the newer prodigy and Ascent and you will notice the logans are the most detailed speakers there is. I am not saying that they are one of the best though. | |
| 300B,811,211 SE triodes Tube amps and ML speakers do NOT match! I have had CLS IIz's, SL3 and Aerius i's. The CLS IIz's were impossible to drive with anything and I had to use a pr of SF Power 3 to drive the SL3s. Tried using the assemblage 300Bs and the SL3's did not gi... | |
| Atmasphere MA-1 vs. BAT Amps It really depends on the impedance curve... although 93 dB does make it easy. I listened to the MA-1s before and they sounded great when driving easy loads in low volumes. Other than that they simply break up when I listen to piano concertos, not ... | |
| Amps for Avalon Radian HCs There's a pair on the last issue of stereophile. I have a pair of curly maple eidolons and it took 2 1/2 months for them to make it. | |
| Amps for Avalon Radian HCs Forget the Radian HCs, I recently upgraded from Ascents to Eidolons and found them 100 times better and much easier to drive than my Ascents. I also have a VT200 and I find the same grittiness compared with my CL150s with Infinicap mods. I haven't... | |
| Krell - Martin Logan power question. Forget it... I had the CLS2Zs back in 1995 and they were the MOST difficult speakers to drive in the world. Get yourself a used KSA300s or an ML333 to drive those guys or find someone to take them to the dumpster. If you have enough current stabil... |