Cool Turek! Another Symphonic Line user.
I have the RG4 Mk3 connected to a CAT pre. I have talked quite a bit w/ Gregm re. this combination. The amps drive B&W DM604S2 speakers, which are quite cheap I'm sure in your opinion (!). However, the sound I got from them was very delightful 95% of the time. Since I do not listen much to classical music the congestion of sound from these speakers rarely showed up. B&Ws like tubes from my experience & the Nautilus tweeter forgives quite a bit when there are some tubes in the signal path. Sound was very non-fatiguing to my ears - I can listen to music 3 hrs at a stretch in my dedicated room at which pt. I need to get up ('cuz there's no blood flowing in my cheeks!!!).
You might not like B&W speakers - that's another matter - but I do recommend them w/ the limited experience that I have.
A friend's friend has a Kraft 250 dual mono which I have listened to. He drives Newform Research R645 speakers. These are ribbon tweeter speakers. Sound is very relaxed - too laid back for me but he loves it. He used to drive Aerial 10T with the Kraft 250 but found them too much in-your-face.
I concur w/ Gregm re. the Vandy 5A - when I heard it w/ a Rowland Model 10 amp (Theta Cassanova pre & Theta transport & DAC), I was not impressed w/ the sound. The sound was too "distant" for me as tho I was sitting beyond the 20th row in a concert hall. I couldn't get involved w/ the music. Maybe the amp-speaker didn't synergize?
However, some sort of time-aligned & minimal phase speaker would be musically correct & non-fatiguing. How about some of the GR Research speakers or VMPS or Green Mountain Audio?
Hope this helps you some.
I have the RG4 Mk3 connected to a CAT pre. I have talked quite a bit w/ Gregm re. this combination. The amps drive B&W DM604S2 speakers, which are quite cheap I'm sure in your opinion (!). However, the sound I got from them was very delightful 95% of the time. Since I do not listen much to classical music the congestion of sound from these speakers rarely showed up. B&Ws like tubes from my experience & the Nautilus tweeter forgives quite a bit when there are some tubes in the signal path. Sound was very non-fatiguing to my ears - I can listen to music 3 hrs at a stretch in my dedicated room at which pt. I need to get up ('cuz there's no blood flowing in my cheeks!!!).
You might not like B&W speakers - that's another matter - but I do recommend them w/ the limited experience that I have.
A friend's friend has a Kraft 250 dual mono which I have listened to. He drives Newform Research R645 speakers. These are ribbon tweeter speakers. Sound is very relaxed - too laid back for me but he loves it. He used to drive Aerial 10T with the Kraft 250 but found them too much in-your-face.
I concur w/ Gregm re. the Vandy 5A - when I heard it w/ a Rowland Model 10 amp (Theta Cassanova pre & Theta transport & DAC), I was not impressed w/ the sound. The sound was too "distant" for me as tho I was sitting beyond the 20th row in a concert hall. I couldn't get involved w/ the music. Maybe the amp-speaker didn't synergize?
However, some sort of time-aligned & minimal phase speaker would be musically correct & non-fatiguing. How about some of the GR Research speakers or VMPS or Green Mountain Audio?
Hope this helps you some.