Speaker match for 75 watt Tenor amps

I had the Verity Parsifal Encore for about 15 months before i sold it recently on Audiogon,but i didn't have the Tenor.

I have use Jadis JA 250(180W),Cary 805(50W),ML 383(100W SS,I helped my friend to sell it on Audiogon and i tried it for fun),and the KR Audio Mono Kronzilla (100W).

All my amps were over than 75W except for Cary 805.

JA 250 : Warm,deep,and huge soundtage. The power of the Jadis was more than enough to make the parsifal rock.

Cary 805 : Very musical,roll-off at low freq,the bass was not solid as the JA 250. Mostly i just used the 805 to drive the monitor only since i felt the 50W from Cary was not powerfull enough for the Parsifal even though i have a small room. (I like high volume)

ML 383 : Hearing only 2 hours,i didn't know what's wrong with that amp since Cary 805 was more powerful than the ML 383 in my room .

Kronzilla : The bottom end remainded me of my Jadis JA 250 with adding more control and balance.Very musical,detail, and as the JA 250,the Kronzilla was never lacked of power driving the Parsifal.

In my system,the Kronzilla follow by the JA 250 were my choice.

Just remember that the Parsifal impedance is 4 ohm and below 3.6 ohm at 40's Hz. (I know that OTL like high impedance.)

I haven't heard the Tenor,but if the Tenor has 25 Watts more than the Cary 805,you can go with it.

Good luck

Everytime I heard Coincidents with OTL is was imprsessive. A friend recently went from a Jadis to OTL he uses Coincident. He raves about the Coincident OTL sound.

I recently purchased the Tenor 15wi and also was looking for the right speaker to go with the Tenor. I found a pair of Kharma Ceramique 2 speakers on audiogon at a great price. I heard that the synergy between the Tenor-Kharma was something special. They should arrive by Friday and I will let you know how they sound.

Saxman, I wonder how did you select Tenors to be your new amps? Are you getting rid of VK75se? What’s wrong with them?
I don’t mean to criticize your decision. Tenors are wonderful amps and were making very pleasant music paired with Verity speakers on 2001 HE show, but IMHO are obscenely expensive.
If you will have both Tenors and BAT at home please post your impressions comparing them on same speakers.

last year when i was waiting for my Tenors i borrowed a BAT VK75SE for 3 weeks. it was a very nice amp, excellent dynamics, detail and extension. no complaints at all. but when the Tenors came it was no contest....the difference in clarity and articulation was dramatic.....the Tenor was way faster and a much lower noise floor and therefore more transparent and natural soundstage. the Tenor was much more like real music. the BAT was more "hifi".

the VK75SE will have some dynamic advantages with some speakers. but the performance of the Tenors with the proper speaker is way beyond the BAT IMHO (as you would expect for the $$$ diff). i would also add that the BAT VK75SE is as good a "real world" amp as i have heard for less than $10k retail list.