ANY EXPERIANCE WITH PASS LABS AND MONTANA EPS2?

I had a somewhat different experience than other posters when I owned these speakers. I liked them quite a bit and thought they did most things very well, but I also found them to need power in order to fill in the low frequencies. At first I used 200w pure of class A into 4 ohms (Reference Line Silver Sig), then went up to 500w (Mac MC501 monos). The bass improved but was still lacking for my large room.

I also found them to be a little hot in the upper frequencies. In part is was my room, which is bright as well as large, so I brought in 10 GIK panels, which helped somewhat. Then I switched to the Mac amps, which are very smooth on top. That helped more. Ultimately, though, I sold the Montanas and the Macs because I just couldn't get the frequency balance I wanted. YMMV, of course.

Hi John,

Are you using them with the spikes? I found them to warm up considerably when placed flat on the floor (concrete slab, in my case, covered with linoleum) but the imaging suffered and the bass bloated a bit. I do like the big, screw-in spike system Peter uses, FWIW, but I thought it shifted the tonal balance upward in my system. I kept vacillating between with and without spikes and just could not get it right. To be more precise, my problems were with overall leanness and hardness in the high midrange frequencies, and lack of sufficient bass energy in my room (which admittedly eats bass waves). I found the tweeters to be excellent in the EPS2. Ultimately, it's all about synergy. In another room with another amp, they could be outstanding. With the Mac amps I found a pretty good synergy but they ended up being too compromised in low-level resolution for my taste. That smoothness comes with a price.

Bill