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BAT with Harbeth? Other recommendation..?

Hi everyone:

I'm waiting arrival of Harbeth M30s. I'm pretty much starting over with my system and the only piece I own is an Ayre C5Xe CD player so I'd like to use an amp/pre with balanced inputs. (or integrated amp)

I owned a BAT 51SE at one time and really liked it's performance and build quality but I want to go a little less 'high end' this time.

I'm thinking of the BAT VK220 and BAT VK3ix. I thought about the samller Ayre integrated but it's only available in silver and my Ayre CD is black. (I know, I know, but I'd like to keep the look somewhat the same:)

I thought about Blue Circle but they have @ 8-12 week lead time for equipment to be built. The Harbeth users group says matching an amp is realatively easy but many of the amps I've seen mentioned for Harbeths don't take XLR inputs, so I wanted to ask if any of you have heard Harbeth/BAT and what your thoughts are.

Thanky you!


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nolitan
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Had owned M30 s for quite sometime. These are a bit warmer sounding speaker.
The Vk55 and the VK75 sounded really good with these. The VK220 i felt was just too warm for my taste.
I heard these speakers as well with accuphase gears, they also sounded awesome!
nolitan
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I noticed that if you put too much juice on the M30s, at higher SPLs they can sound a strident hard.
VK220 would be as most as id go as these speakers while being 86 dbs dont really require that much power to make them sweet & musical.
The pair i sold to end up to a friend who had 30watts tube amp and sounding really good.
Still, if you can swing for a vk75, that would be cool!
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