High Sensitivity Speakers


Within the last year I purchased a Pass Labs XA 60.8 ... which I am pleased with.  It’s a great match with the rest of my system which includes Avant-garde Uno Gen 1 speakers (sorry about the hyphen but the spell check insists).  I like the speakers a lot but they are now 17 years on so I assume speaker technology has moved in quite a bit in thus time.  So as I considered new speaker alternatives I discovered that the Pass Labs 60.8 (69 w class A, 120w class A/B) are “underpowered” for a number of speaker brands.  I am not keen to trade my amp up but it’s an option.  So looking to upgrade speakers I an looking at Avant-garde Duo Gen 3.  Any input on other speaker brands that might be sensitive enough to match with the amps I currently have?  I live overseas so by brand choice is a bit limited to “well known” brands.  My system: SME 20/2 tt, Tom Evans The Groove phono preamp, Brooklyn + DAC, PS Audio 15 Power Plant, Joule Electra line preamp, 4 Rel 812 subs, room size 30’x21’x10’ ceiling), assorted decent power cables and interconnects.
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Have you consider just moving up the Avantgarde line. The time domain and crossover issues inherent from the design of the speakers that plagued earlier Avantgarde systems has been largely corrected with the use of digital crossovers used in all the newest XD series from Avantgarde. I’ve heard the duo XD and duo mezzo xd on several occasions and I can certainly attest they sound more “natural” then the uno nano ever did. I never heard the original duo or trio systems, but have heard that unless a lot of effort was spent into setup, with use of software costing thousands of dollars, it is difficult to get optimum performance.

apparently when you get a xd series Avantgarde setup in room, you run some propriety Avantgarde software which runs DSP to the woofers for proper bass integration to your room. Pretty fancy stuff. I hope to get Avantgarde someday :)