Thank you Pojuojuo !

I always miss my Centaur's , they were with that lovely finish , i was very sad to let them go but i wanted to step up with a fullrange ribbon .

If you have the opportunity , go for the Signature version , they have some advantages over the previous Duettas.

Enjoy your system as well :)

stevepancevo January 23, 2009 09:42

I have a pair of Apogee Centaur, same finish and they sound absolutely amazing with my Krell Kav amplifier. Now I am looking for a Duetta or perhaps Duetta Signature so I am going in the same road as you.

Enjoy your beautiful system

pojuojuo January 19, 2009 13:19

Hi Stevan,
You need to be careful with under 4ohm types, but anything else is good. If you have a fairly clean power supply then you are good. Try the 1000watt monos.

chadeffect February 05, 2008 18:45

Chadeffect and Stevepancevo, there is no free lunch when buying any amp genre. Class D is no exception. The ICE modules married to digital power supplies were not created for high fidelity purposes. They were made for mass production purposes. Builders making pretty box amps have come and gone, their products disappointing.

The 500A module, on the other hand, was made for better amps. It requires an outside power supply. B&O's engineers spent umpteen hours improving that module, despite constricted sales.

Any success with the 500A module depends on the user's engineering prowess. Here is where Henry Ho shows his supremacy IMO. Along with his Fire preamp, this duo kicks ass on my Scintillas. I have Tyco drums on now...... egads!!!!!

muralman1 February 05, 2008 16:14

See you are very exitable about the ICE power type amps and glad to see that,so the first opportunity i get -have to try them out :)
Are they sensitive to speaker cables combined with the Apogee`s

stevepancevo February 05, 2008 10:18

Hi Stevan,
I have found valve amps have too many short comings. I have found other ways to get the fluidity valve fans adore.

I have to say you have work real hard to beat the ICE power type amps. They are utterly a revolution for audiophiles. They are cheap, powerful, run cool, with very low distortion and the size of a shoe! No heat sinks to cut your hands on or even break your back lifting them.
Just make sure your source is good and up to date and you will be happy.

chadeffect February 02, 2008 15:29

Hello Chadeffect !
Glad to see more and more Apogee guys here :)

Your right about the technoligy has moved on and there is a lot of good amps for Apogees now.
My good friend was the importer of Apogee speakers and Krell so i got to listen a lot of gear over the years with the Apogees , Krell and others.I chose the KSA 100 S because i liked the sound that entire KSA-S series had and my buget was limited.
The best sound was from the Krell Audio Standard but the price was tooooooo high!

I dont like the sound from tube amps very much but tastes are different from one individual to another and thats OK

Cheers

Stevan

stevepancevo January 18, 2008 11:47

Another Apogee man here! Try different amps from Krell. In the old days they were probably the only thing that could drive Apogees. Now the Technology has moved on... Belcanto e1 will kill the KSA Krells in every way. Tubes are a little more tricky in my opinion with these. The Apogee is capable of mind numbing bass and tubes will detract from their bass performance although the mids...

Good luck

chadeffect January 12, 2008 12:55

Nice setup Stevepancevo...I'm an Apogee guy also! I used to use Krell...I've gone to tubes with my Apogees around two years ago.

Dave

sogood51 October 20, 2007 21:30

The Graham slee Special Edition is now in my system :-)

stevepancevo October 20, 2007 06:43

Hello Flo !:-)

I was just braging the other day on a Srbian hifi forum ,that i know someone that has the mighty Apogee Grand speakers and nobody believed me:-)

Cheers

Stevan

stevepancevo October 17, 2007 12:26

just wanted to stop by and say hello to a fellow Apogee owner :-)

Cheers

Flo

florianw October 17, 2007 10:56

Yes i saw them on the Apogee forum ( there i am stevan :-) )

They really are wonderfull designed and i like the Stax amp even more !
I first saw the Stax years ago in a Serbian hifi magazine and it was tested with the Diva.

stevepancevo October 16, 2007 11:45

Yeah, better known as Dracula. :D

Home made stands are the best when it comes to innovation. I really like yours a lot. I know a fellow in the Netherlands who has a wonderfully designed stand too. I am seriously jealous of you guys.

Check his out:

http://www.audioworld.com/sw/Forum1/HTML/006426.html

muralman1 October 15, 2007 17:25

Stupid me you ment the one from Romania :-)

stevepancevo October 15, 2007 07:56

Hello Muralman1

MI-3 is hook to the mid/high and a the woofer has an old Audioquest Speaker cable for now but it works fine.

I dont know who Vladimir is - is he from the Apogee forum ?
Im from Serbia.

Thank you i like your listening room better, it looks very very good !

The racks was my idea and i made them with a help from my good friend.

stevepancevo October 14, 2007 07:46

Ok Steve....... Let me guess. That is a Goertz inductor ribbon unraveled, with the return taped to the other side...... How close am I?

Are you related to Vladimir the Impaler? Those racks make a pointed point! Very cool I should add. :)

muralman1 October 13, 2007 16:44

Today i took the Graham Slee Special Edition Gram amp 2 ( phono Preamp )for a test run on my sistem.

stevepancevo October 13, 2007 06:36

KSA-s serija je lepa kombinacija sa Apogee inace nevolim sve Krell-ove kako zvuce ali ova jako lepo radi.
Apogee je jedna velika primadona i moras joj udovoljiti sve zahteve da bi pokazala sta moze a imao sam dosta prilika da cujem ostala pojacala kao sto su Mark L,Jeff R,Classe,Aragon itd cak sam slusao i FM Acoustics sa Apogee-om

Odakle si ?

Pozdrav

stevepancevo October 09, 2007 11:38

Stevo,
zasto Krell?

lateguestsnomore October 08, 2007 23:32

Pics. are posted :-)

Better late than never !

stevepancevo October 08, 2007 14:33

Post a pic of your system.

apogeelov February 26, 2005 03:08