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RE: N core

Beautiful room! I an see that the acoustics would be a challenge, though.

I wouldn't be surprised if those Blankos sound better than the Logans, assuming of course that they did a good job with the design. The Logans look cool, but they suffer from the hybrid woofers with a high crossover.

Have you considered the Scaenas? I'm thinking that narrow line sources might work aesthetically.

As intriguing as it is, the M32 is more than I want to spend on an amplifier at this point. I may well have to spend $2k on a new DAC before this is done and have dental expenses next month so I was thinking of something in the $1500 range. If my budget were $3K, I'd probably try a Pass XA30.5 next. I've never heard anything less than love expressed towards those amplifiers and it isn't so big that heat, weight, and power consumption become an issue. I think I could get away with the Pass on the midrange because the Neodynium magnet BG line source is a good deal more efficient than the Maggie woofers, and because the Pass is really an AB amp with a super high bias (Class A to 30 watts, which would be 60 watts into 4 ohms, then about 160 watts Class B, and single-ended at low levels).


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