Abruce,
Congratulations! My good friend Jwm has one and I hear it often. It wonderfully reproduces music and takes no back seat to his excellent turntable front end at all.
Charles,

charles1dad May 25, 2014 14:14

Abruce,
Israel does make a very powerful amplifier called the Dragon MKII. This amp has a huge power supply and massive transformers.It uses the 211 tubes in push-pull rather than SET. The Dragon would likely drive your Hales very well.
Charles

charles1dad December 16, 2011 13:07

Abruce I found measurements for your speaker on Stereophile. The Frankenstein would be a bad match with it. The Hales is85 db effficient and a 4 ohm load.
In addition the load drops to below 2 ohms! in the midrange region(not good at all for a 300b SET).

Your Hales will certainly require a 'lot' of power and current to properly drive them(far outside the range of the Frankensteins).
the Franks are superb, but only with a suitable speaker(high efficiency and easier load characteristics).
Your present amplifier is the much better choice.
Charles

charles1dad December 15, 2011 04:29

Hi,
Abruce I don`t know mch about them.
What`s their efficiency and nominal load/ohms?
Charles

charles1dad December 15, 2011 04:12

Bruce I already have one LOL. I was just curious as to your impressions. It is SOTA.

charles1dad December 14, 2011 03:59

Abruce,
You have a very nice system!
How long have you had the Coincident Statement Linestage and what`s your impression of it thus far?
Charles

charles1dad December 08, 2011 19:34