Avantgarde Trios, SETs, and Impedance Curves


Has anyone ever seen an actual impedance curve plot for the Avantgarde Trios? I am about to acquire a 3 year old pair and need to find a great amp to drive them. I suppose conventional wisdom would be to use an SET of some kind. However, to perform their best, SETs really require a relatively flat impedance curve. So, I guess what I'd like to know is how badly does the Trio impedance fluctuate with frequency, and/or, empirically, what amps have Trio owners used that have rendered awesome performance?

How about it, Trio owners, any advice for a new Trio guy? Any feedback would me most appreciated!

Dean
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I have Trio Omegas with double and now I'm using triple 225 subs. At first I used a Berning Siegfried and it was wonderful except for the huge turn on and off thump it had. It's not sensitive to impedance like most OTL's or SE amps. Now I have some Butler Monads and they were as good as the Berning and dead quiet too so I sold the Berning. Now I have a Tube Distinctions 15watt SE amp that is outstanding but haven't had time to compare it to the Monads. It's way more engineered than the TEAD Linear A. I could be happy with either but one of these days I'll have to do a shootout. I'd love to try the First Watt F3 also and may do that since they have a return policy.
I have the curve if anyone is interested. It has two peaks of 38ohms at 90hz and 65ohms at 950hz. It's about 9ohms at 10K hz and is faily flat from 8k out to 20k.
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