I was afraid somebody would say that.
I got the Proacs (from Arnie of Accutronics of Ann Arbor before he founded Audiogon) because they sounded great and mated very well with the Cary. (I understand Deja Vu of Maclean still demos their 300Bs with newer Proacs.)
In the medium term I'm thinking of downsizing the Cary and the two-chassis SF pre-amp to a hybrid integrated (possibly the Rogue Pharaoh) and was thinking the extra power would permit a different speaker with those last few Hz on the lower end that I've been hankering for for a while.
This in turn led me to the auditioning that I recounted in my other recent thread.
Unfortunately I do seem to have a preference for a particular sonic signature that for want of a better term I'll call Old World (mostly UK speakers, Dynaudio, etc.) over New World (some US and Canadian [e.g. Paradigm]), though the Old World models often seem to achieve that at the cost of ultimate low-end extension. I was hoping that the PSBs, or the perhaps Revels, might be--to continue the metaphor--a bit more mid-Atlantic in nature, but I guess not.
I got the Proacs (from Arnie of Accutronics of Ann Arbor before he founded Audiogon) because they sounded great and mated very well with the Cary. (I understand Deja Vu of Maclean still demos their 300Bs with newer Proacs.)
In the medium term I'm thinking of downsizing the Cary and the two-chassis SF pre-amp to a hybrid integrated (possibly the Rogue Pharaoh) and was thinking the extra power would permit a different speaker with those last few Hz on the lower end that I've been hankering for for a while.
This in turn led me to the auditioning that I recounted in my other recent thread.
Unfortunately I do seem to have a preference for a particular sonic signature that for want of a better term I'll call Old World (mostly UK speakers, Dynaudio, etc.) over New World (some US and Canadian [e.g. Paradigm]), though the Old World models often seem to achieve that at the cost of ultimate low-end extension. I was hoping that the PSBs, or the perhaps Revels, might be--to continue the metaphor--a bit more mid-Atlantic in nature, but I guess not.