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Sonus Faber & Nautilus Set Up. It's tough to synchronize gain control on B&W, but after a few weeks of tweaking, it has become a marvelous speaker. I found Stradivari to be a better speaker in many dimensions. A bit dissapointed at B&W's depth of bass, but still beautiful to look. Great WAF!
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    • Esoteric P-03/D-03
    Japanese. P01/D01 is slightly better, but not by much
    • Sonus Faber Stradivari
    Very musical
    • B&W Nautilus
    Beautiful...
    • McIntosh MC-1201
    Heavy
    • McIntosh MC-501
    Musical
    • McIntosh MC-2000
    Classic
    • McIntosh C2200
    A bit light, but musical

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Which Classe amp, "Omega"

I would suggest you post a thread in the Audiophile Forums section under "Amps Preamps" asking this specific question to see what others suggest.

I'm sure you will get a variety of answers, I am currently looking at amps for my MBL 101E's. I had CAT JL3 Sig. MK2 mono blocks but do to reliability issues I decided not to keep them.

One amp that interest me and you may want to look at is, "Karan 1200's"

I use to own Avalon Isis speakers in my other set-up and one of my issues was finding the right amplification to get the bass working properly, well I have heard lately from others that the Karan's are a great fit. There isn't allot of info. regarding these amps but you can do a search including this forum, "Big Karan amps"

Westside_music (Gary) is the North American distributor, nice guy. I have talked to him a couple of times and will be making arrangements to hear Karan product in my system in the near future.

dev

Hi Syaudio, you really have some nice pieces. Have you tried the clock with your Esoteric pcs, I heard a set-up where we where adding and removing the clock and the difference was very noticeable, my preference was having it with in the chain.

Regarding your B&W speakers, they are absolutely pces of art. Have you tried any other amps with these besides the Mac., I like the Mac and have owned but do to there design it might just be possible that the depth bass situation your are having is do to this and not the speaker because I had a similar issue but with another speaker and this was what I found.

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