What do you use for interconnects, speaker cables, and power cords? Do you switch them depending on which amp you are using?
Amplifier for Volti Lucerna Speakers
Hi All,
My speakers are a new pair of Volti Lucernas that I purchased about a year ago and I am loving them. These may be my last pair of speakers.
My system is a PS Audio PWT, Mojo Mystique DAC, no vinyl yet due to placement logistics, Don Sachs DS2 pre, and a variety of amps:
FW F7 - Better with Fritz Carbons in 2nd system,
Quicksilver Horn Monos - like the separation and exactness but need more power,
FW F6 - sounds similar to QHM and also needs more power,
Don Sachs Kootenay - great amp, nuanced but lacks bit of powerful immediacy,
Van Alstine SET 120 - very powerful but misses some of the nuance.
I think nuance means inner detail and texture to me....
I have tried hard to like tube amps with the Lucernas but think I like may be more of a solid state guy due to the tighter, more powerful bass.
I could be happy, I think, with the FW F6 and Quicksilvers if they had more watts.
Seems like 60 WPC is a minimum. I could really like the 60 watts per channel of the SET 120 if it was more nuanced without sacrificing the clean sound and tight and powerful bass.
What would you suggest based on your listening experience with hybrid horn speakers?
Pass XA25?
Belles Aria monos?
Van Alstine monos?
Any class D? I tried LSA Warp 1 - pretty good bass and clean sounding but lacked nuance in my setup. Definitely want better.
What else?
Looking forward to your feedback!
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A lot of interesting ideas to think through here. Thanks everyone! @knotscott I have thought about biamping. It gets into logistics of additional amps and WAF. It also gets into my lack of understanding of how to do it. The main thing that escapes me is how you adjust for loudness differences between, say my DS Kooteney for the minds and highs and a SS amp for the bass. @doyle3433 I remember reading your posts a couple of years ago when I was researching speakers. Greg is an interesting guy to speak with although I never have met him. He really likes people to visit and hear his speakers but he felt that I had gone through a lot of different speakers and knew what I what I liked and what I was getting with the Voltis. I have thought about Luxman and need to hear one somewhere to get a sense of the house sound. @larryi My room is about 15 x 30 with 9 foot ceilings so it is large. My setup is on one of the long ends with the listening spot 10 feet from there....so several feet behind me. My opinion is solid state is the only way to really here what a large woofer can do...maybe I am all wet! @trivema It seems more than a few folks like Kt88's. That is what is in my Don Sachs Kooteney. I thought the bass was really good until I heard a couple of SS amps with the Lucernas. The SS was definitely better; perhaps, ultimately, I do not like Kt88's, who knows. @78sman I do not pay too much attention to my interconnects but stick to copper. My speaker wire is copper, multistranded, and thicker than lamp cord. My experience is that my equipment changes (Pres, Amps, Dacs. Transports) are all very noticeable and I tend to weed out what I do not like to hear. The differences in equipment seems large to me and fine tuning with cable changes is not something I think is worth the time and effort at this point. I have gone through the tube change merrygoround with preamps and have dozens of aXX tubes that I will never use. I could hear the differences between different manufacturers of the same tubes but once I heard 6ns7's my preamp selection got a lot simpler. I also think that I may be to the point where I have to spend more than $5000 on an amp... it may be time to spend for an Accuphase or Luxman to get into better internals that should result in better sound....
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