Calling all SET fans

Schubert, you made my day.

Glad to hear it seems to be working well. This may well accelerate my plunge towards a flea powered tube amp to use my Triangle Titus XS sooner rather than later.

Just goes to show to always take specs with a grain of salt. I see no reason why most any amp including SET would not do well with the Triangles. They are hard to beat in their price range as you describe and they have a reputation from users for sounding best with tube amps to start.

Now, I will wait to hear results with Triangles and SET or SEP, if you are still inclined to take things even further in that direction. The EE amp seems pretty sweet already. Its one I have considered as well from time to time.

Thanks, Map -beyond all doubt Triangle is tube time, I suspect they are around 91db in the space I have .
I'm listening to Baroque Organ right now (Couperin )and they are doing fine , real fine, Guitar is off the charts as is piano !
+ EE makes very high quality stuff .

My Triangle Titus have been the bomb for several months now in my wife's 12X12 cathedral ceiling sunroom, running off the 500 w/ch Bal canto ref1000m Class D amps in the basement below (via in-wall speaker wires I had run when the house was built).

So when I throw a flea powered tube amp at them some day, the other end of the amp spectrum essentially, it will be very interesting. They are the only speakers I own that might sound even better perhaps with just a few pure watts of tube amp power, but they are hard to fault as running currently even.

Way to go, Mapman!

A speaker that is a **true** 90 db/1W/1m/8 ohms driven by 8 watts should be able to generate SPL's in the mid-90's at a centered listening position about 10 feet from the speakers. Which would certainly seem likely to be adequate for the majority of chamber recordings. The problem that often seems to occur, though, as Duke mentioned early in the thread, is that the specs are inaccurate and/or misleading.

One commonly seen example of a spec being misleading even if it is accurate would be a spec such as 90 db/2.83volts/1m for a 4 ohm speaker, or for a speaker that is spec'd as having a higher impedance but which is more accurately characterized as a 4 ohm speaker. The 90 db in that situation corresponds to just 87 db/1W/1m, since 2.83 volts into 4 ohms is 2 watts rather than 1.

In this case, though, it would seem that the 90 db figure is an honest one.

Best regards,

-- Al