Just my experience: Vu,of Deja Vu Audio,sent me one of his PP 2a3 amps to try on my Apogee Duetta Sigs. I thought this was going to be a waste of time but I had a couple pairs of single driver speakers I could listen to after the Apogee experiment would fail. WELL I was wrong. I heard some of the most beautiful music come out of the Aps. I've had some 100 watt amps "puke on the floor" driving Vandersteen 3A's which are more efficient and more sensitive than the Aps. Anybody's best amp or best speaker is just their opinion based on their taste so this was mine. I do think most people can hear when the life is being sucked out of an amp for whatever reason but it is a fact that you will be limited to smaller spl's with 4 watts. Depending on how well an amp is designed the autoformers may help alot.
Ok ML CLS and SET amp owners - interesting ?
I own Wright 3.5 SET tube monoblock amps. They put out 4 watts and up to 8 peak. I love the way they sound. I want to try some Martin Logan CLS and while it seems crazy to think they both could work together I ask this question.
The CLS's are 86 db effecient and have a 4 ohm nominal impedience. They drop down to as low 1.5 - 2 ohms. OK, no way my Wright would work as it, but what if I purchased the Paul Speltz Zero Autoformers. I understand it raises the speaker impedience the amps see up to 2X, 3X or 4X.
How does increasing the CLS's from their nominal 2-4 ohms to 8-16 ohms increase the functional effeciency of the speaker? Does this even ring true?
Would my wonderful Wright amps then "work" well with the CLS's. Think this would be a match made in heaven if possible.
Grannyring
The CLS's are 86 db effecient and have a 4 ohm nominal impedience. They drop down to as low 1.5 - 2 ohms. OK, no way my Wright would work as it, but what if I purchased the Paul Speltz Zero Autoformers. I understand it raises the speaker impedience the amps see up to 2X, 3X or 4X.
How does increasing the CLS's from their nominal 2-4 ohms to 8-16 ohms increase the functional effeciency of the speaker? Does this even ring true?
Would my wonderful Wright amps then "work" well with the CLS's. Think this would be a match made in heaven if possible.
Grannyring