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Anyone having combo: Epos spks (i.e., ES12 or M12, etc.)& low power tube amps ?
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I lived with Epos 14s for almost 5 years. 87db efficient. Flatish impedance curve -- faily easily driven by tube amps. No crossover - just a cap filtering the tweater. Overall, a very good design for tube amps. However, my understanding is that it was voiced using NAIM equipment, including the most powerful NAIM amp, whatever that model was.Through the 5 years I used the following amps.
NAD receiver - can't remember Model. OK sand amp. Tizzy.
MacIntosh 1700 receiver with sand amp. Better. Still tizzy.
AMC CVT 3030 Tube Integrated (Sand pre-amp and EL34 outputs - 30wpc). Big improvement.
Scott 222C tube integrated (7189 outputs). Great sounding vintage amp that could really drive the speakers with only 20 watts per channel.
AMC tube pre-amp and amp seperates (EL34 outputs). Better. More depth, more musical.
AMC tube pre-amp and Cary 300B stereo amp (this was a stereo, push pull amp using 2 - 300B outputs per channel, a 6SL7 input/driver, and tube rectified). Fabulous amp with about 25 watts per channel. A truly wonderful amp/speaker interface. Very powerful sounding with the EPOS 14.
AMC tube pre-amp and Cary 300B SE monoblocks (maybe 10 wpc?). Even better sounding amp through the mid range -- but could not drive the speakers with the same authority. Thus, a tradeoff.
Audible Illusions 2D pre-amp and Cary 300B SE monoblocks. Cleaned up the signal to the amps. But didn't appreciably impact amps ability to drive the speakers.
The EPOS 14 will work very well with any good sounding push pull amp that can deliver clean 15 wpc. If you listen loud or have a big room, you'll require quite a bit more power -- at least 50 wpc or perhaps as much as 100 wpc. Those are big mothers.
Good luck. Let us know what happens.
WTS
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