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The differences in high end sound

With regard to the speakers, you are talking about apples and oranges (8 ohm/98 dB w/ dynamic drivers vs 4 ohm/91 dB w/ ribbon mids & tweeters). While I have not owned these particular speakers, I have owned their little sisters. I have had the Galante Rhapsody monitors and the VMPS 626 monitors. I have to say I was not highly impressed with the Rhapsody and would rank it only number 6 or the 11 different monitors I have had in my SET system. I thought they were warm and sweet in the midrange, but lacking at the top end. I also thought they were only average in delivery of detail and sounded veiled when compared to better monitors. I was running these with 45 and 300B amps. I think it would be interesting for you to try the Symphony’s with the OTL amp and see how different they sound.

I only ran my VMPS 626’s in my Home theater system with high powered solid state amps. I do recall that they sounded better when I switched from 150 wpc to 350 wpc amps. I now have the VMPS RM30’s, and have to say they are clearly at another level of performance from the 626’s. While the RM30’s give a lively, dynamic and detailed sound, they certainly lack the richness of a SET system. I would have to think of them as a different type (flavor, species?) of sound.

I wonder if you are doing justice to the RM2’s with the amplification you have? Or whether you are doing justice to your OTL’s by using the RM2’s.

I would have to say that I have a strong preference for that SET magic, but certainly recognize that it is not the only magic in high end sound.

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