Amp for Shahinian Diapasons


Recently upgraded to the Diapason with Double Eagle woofers. Anyone able to suggest a nice amp to match?

After something reasonably priced..my listening levels are not into the stratosphere :)

I was thinking Eastern Electic minimax pre and Belles power, Blue Circle Integrated, EE Minimax pre and Bedini power, AVI Lab integrated...

Any advice greatly appreciated...

Cheers

Richard
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I owned the Diapasons for about 10 years. I used both tube and solid state amps and solid state is the way to go. As Hassel suggests, get an amp with some power. My Metaxas amp was 100W and did fine. The Plinius, Dynavector and Bedini amps are recommended on the Shahinian Acoustics site. Good luck. It's a wonderful speaker.
John Marks in Stereophile (and previously TAS) has always extolled the combination of the Plinius amps with Shahinians, so they are worth an audition.
The last time I spoke with Dick Shahinian (a little over a year ago), he recommended Plinius.