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Anyone with any experience driving the Atma-Sphere S-30 with a BAT VK-5i preamp (which is fully balanced)? I'll be driving Galante Symphony speakers and am curious to know if others have had experience with this preamp/amp and/or amp/speaker combination. Thanks all.
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The S30 is a wownderful amp and I've heard it with a number of pre-amps (not the BAT) and never a problem. The bigger problem is matching this amp with the right speaker IMO. The amp likes to see a flat high impedance load, the flatter and higher the better. The best match I ever got was with a 16 ohm single driver PHY 16 ohm driver.
If the impedance of the speaker drops below 7-8 ohms it might not work it's magic.
Call Ralph at Atmasphere, he can give you much more detail regarding his designs.
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Thanks very much. The Galante Symphonies are no longer made, so it's hard to get a lot of data on them. They have an 8 ohm nominal impedance but at least one source on-line suggests the impedance drops to a minimum of 5.2 ohms. They have a 98 db sensitivity, and are easily driven by my 2A3 SET amp. Not sure whether they'll be the right speakers for the Atma-Spheres but we shall see! Thanks again.
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