Ideal Speakers for Ayon Spark 3?

[agasthya14]

Hi,
A friend of mine recently bought an Ayon Spark 3 Single Ended Triode Tube amplifier. He is searching for a good pair of speakers for them, preferably good bookshelf speakers.If anybody has previous experience with the amplifier, would you kindly recommend a good pair of speakers for him?
Thanks in Advance,
Agasthya

 

[tuff]

approx budget would help.

 

[square_wave]

Triode mode gives you 20 watts which is quite good for a SET. But don't expect miracles if you pair them with a typical bookshelf speaker. Most of them are quite inefficient unless you specifically look for the tube amp friendly ones. If you raise the sensitivity of bookshelf speakers, you typically land up with speakers which "lack bass response" or with " large " bookshelf speakers. The fairly large book shelf speakers from Harbeth seems to work well with tube amps. Audionote is another good example.

 

[agasthya14]

approx budget would help.

His budget is 2 lakh rupees tops

 

[agasthya14]

Triode mode gives you 20 watts which is quite good for a SET. But don't expect miracles if you pair them with a typical bookshelf speaker. Most of them are quite inefficient unless you specifically look for the tube amp friendly ones. If you raise the sensitivity of bookshelf speakers, you typically land up with speakers which "lack bass response" or with " large " bookshelf speakers. The fairly large book shelf speakers from Harbeth seems to work well with tube amps. Audionote is another good example.

I understand sir, How would an ATC match with it? Something like the SCM7 perhaps?

 

[JayaRaa]

I understand sir, How would an ATC match with it? Something like the SCM7 perhaps?

Why not demo it & find out yourself?

 

[ckn]

If the budget can go higher I have a fantastic AvantGarde SR3 by Audio Vector (about a year old) for sale. Price is 5L though. But would be superb for this (and any other) amp. New retails for around 9.75L.

 

[heliumflight]

I understand sir, How would an ATC match with it? Something like the SCM7 perhaps?

ATC are power hungery speakers and will not be compatiable with SET. With SET amp you must have speakers which are 97+db.

 

[square_wave]

I understand sir, How would an ATC match with it? Something like the SCM7 perhaps?

Specs and past experiences with ATC suggest a bad match. You might be able to extract some nice tunes though. ideal match for dynamics, headroom..?? No !

 

[agasthya14]

Why not demo it & find out yourself?

possible, but he keeps travelling a lot.That's why I thought I could research a bit and help him out

 

[agasthya14]

If the budget can go higher I have a fantastic AvantGarde SR3 by Audio Vector (about a year old) for sale. Price is 5L though. But would be superb for this (and any other) amp. New retails for around 9.75L.

Oh sorry sir, he won't be able to go for that much, good deal though

 

[agasthya14]

ATC are power hungery speakers and will not be compatiable with SET. With SET amp you must have speakers which are 97+db.

Oh, that makes it all the more difficult to find I guess

 

[agasthya14]

Specs and past experiences with ATC suggest a bad match. You might be able to extract some nice tunes though. ideal match for dynamics, headroom..?? No !

I'll remember to tell him that

 

[mpw]

Look at Rethm speakers.. Your friend might find something.

Indian made and great-sounding

You can contact rethm owner Jacob and discuss your requirement

 

[agasthya14]

Look at Rethm speakers.. Your friend might find something.

Indian made and great-sounding

You can contact rethm owner Jacob and discuss your requirement

Okay sir.where are they based?

 

[mpw]

Cochin.

Look up the net

 

[Fisheye]

I use the Spark III with Wilson Audio CUB 1. Those are 94db sensitive. Great match. There are also two REL Tzero subs. The Cubs go down to 50hz only, so a sub is almost a must. The amp sounds incredible. Needless to say this is my end-game setup.

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[RRR]

How about JBL 4312E. 93db.

 

[Analogous]

The Klipsch RP600m is worth considering. It’s not the last word in detail retrieval but it produces a very enjoyable non fatiguing presentation of music across genres. I am using it with a 20w amp and am still enjoying the combo two years now.

The Harbeth P3 ESR is another surprisingly good speaker even with a low powered amp though it’s rated at 82db. I had paired it with a Lyrita 2a3 DHT that outputs 2.3W and remember the mesmerising sound presented (as long as I did not push the volume to high levels and risking damage to the speakers) I asked @prem how this could work as well as it did and he explained it was due to the relatively flat measuring impedance curve of the speaker.

But if risk averse, the safest would be a speaker with high sensitivity as others have pointed out.