I suppose if the writer gave a glowing review with that gear just think what the speaker might be capable of. One other thing I thought about a guy from Raidho set the speakers up so he could have suggested better gear.
I may have brands mixed up I think those tube amps used I heard in Dr Vinyl's room, they do sound very nice. Typically though speakers of that stature require some quality juice though.
I read a review this morning of the Pass XP12, the writer used used a set of Pass 60 mono blocks but I forget which exact model. I thought it odd he used as his source a Bluesound Node. This is a decent streamer/DAC to a point but come on you are reviewing a $6k preamp, I feel a higher quality DAC is in order as well the streamer. The review states he just plugged the Node into one of the inputs so he was even using that DAC.
You have to wonder if the industry has a lack of experienced reviewers. I suppose the same principle would apply as stated above, if it sounds good with a Node just imagine what it would do with a Lumin or Aurender etc. it was a positive review. Don't we sort of question a reviewers ability when they do stuff like this though?
