+1 For the Yamaha. I believe the Marantz is an excellent choice as well. Good luck with your search.
Cheers,
Scott |
I drive those wonderful speakers with a 70 wpc KT150 integrated amp, and play them loud often. They sound just great. I use a Lyric integrated. Ti 140. Plenty of power. |
Hi there,
Just wanted to report back on what I ended up auditioning and purchasing, in case someone else finds it useful in the future. After a lot of research, I decided I wanted to invest more and get a more powerful amp. So I ended up auditioning the L100 speakers initially with these amps:
- Primare l15 prisma
- Hegel H95
- Lyngdorf tdai 1120
- Arcam SA30
I created a playlist of 10 tracks from different genres to probe different aspects of the speakers, and tried to be as systematic as possible. The difference between these amps were actually greater than what I thought. If I want to just rank my preference it would be H95 > Lyngdorf > Primare > Arcam. Lyngdorf I thought had a better bass but not as crisp as Primare on the mids. H95 sounded very nice, and even though the bass felt slightly less full than the Lyngdorf, it overall sounded nicest to me. To my surprise Arcam was not impressive despite its rated power, not sure why. I then wanted to know how going up the Hegel ladder would change my experience, so I also auditioned H120 and H190 right after the first round. Well, H120 seemed like a clear improvement, specially in the depth of the bass, though the difference was not as clear between H120 and H190. My partner and I still felt that some bass heavy tracks still had a better finish, but they both sounded close to one another. The store gave us a good deal with H190 so we ended up buying that at the end. I spent a lot more than my original budget on the Amp, but the setup sure sounds fantastic.
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