What Power Amp matches with the Rega Elex-R ?


So I purchased a Rega Elex-R Integrated amp a week ago and paired it with a set of Tannoy Xt6f Floorstanding speakers. The sound is great! Almost no complaints and the power is perfectly matched for my 23' x 14' Living room with thinly carpeted floors and painted (satin finished) Sheetrock walls and lightly "popcorned" 8' ceiling. I would like to improve the sound quality a bit, because the upper mids appear a bit too pronounced and I could use more specific placement of instruments in the audio spectrum, IMO.

Any ideas on what Power Amp would match very well with this Rega? The Rega has RCA preamp outs and I'd like to eventually add the Mcintosh MEN220 Room Corrector sometime in the future.
reubenruppert

Showing 1 response by skoczylas

very nice set up. I dont know your model of Tannoy but my experience with Tannoys is that they dont necessarily respond the way you might think to more power like other speakers. They can change for the worse at times.

moreover, an issue with upper mids isnt usually solved with more power as far as I know. Usually a different pre, a different dac or even cables could impact upper mids - and most importantly placement. 

just for fun could you try the system in a different, smaller room with thicker carpet just to see if you have a room resonance problem? also what is your source? if digital then look at the file types and experiment with others - even plug an ipad into the rcas just to see if the problem changes. try a different dac. sometimes when you put together a good system like this you find out the upstream needs work because you hear the problems more clearly. 

enjoy the system and keep us posted.