Yup, they like juice. The Maggies are far hungrier, though (I’ve owned four pair, including the Tympani-IVa’s I now have). The ET"s have a nominal impedance of 8 ohms to the Maggies 4 ohms. The LFT panels on their own are an 11 ohm load, so a moderately powered tube amp works great with them. Then a solid state amp can be used for the woofers.
Pairing Planar Speakers With A Subwoofer (Eminent Technology)
What do you think of pairing the Eminent Technology LFT 8-B planars with a pair of Rythmik F25 subwoofers?
Please check out my room on my system page. I am attempting to emulate a set of Infinity IRS Betas.
System page: https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/876
Eminent Technology LFT 8-B: http://www.eminent-tech.com/main.html
Rythmik F25 subwoofer: http://www.rythmikaudio.com/F25.html
Please check out my room on my system page. I am attempting to emulate a set of Infinity IRS Betas.
System page: https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/876
Eminent Technology LFT 8-B: http://www.eminent-tech.com/main.html
Rythmik F25 subwoofer: http://www.rythmikaudio.com/F25.html
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@bdp24 What is amazing about the Eminents is that their midrange driver handles the range of 180Hz to 10kHz without a crossover. The Absolute Sound review is right on target. Such open and transparent speakers. But as ugly as genital warts. Their WAF is negative one million. |
I have paired them with a pair of Vandersteen 2Wq subwoofers. Superb, seamless and I consider it a 3-in-1 upgrade as the unique feedforward design of the 2Wq's frees up more juice for these power hungry speakers, which benefit also by only having to play from 80hz upward- less juice required. My amps don't work as hard. My brother walked into the house and commented, without entering my listening room, how effortless my hi-fi sounded. |
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