Spendor S 3/5 with NAD 352

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GeeTee <arnis@grafton.lv> wrote:
>I'm trying to setup my home studio, so I'm thinking of Spendor S 3/5
>as monitors (legendary predecessor LS 3/5 was used by BBC as nierfield
>monitors for 25 years, only the best reviews around) powered by NAD
>352. I wonder if anyone has any experience with S 3/5 as monitors...
>anyway for now NAD 352 is only an option, but still I'm looking for
>oppinions for best amp for those little gems.

They have no low end and they blow up very easily. I have used them for
recording monitors for years because they have the most glorious midrange
around, but they are very delicate.

>... as I noticed at the store, sound changed dramatically as amplifire
>was changed. At first I heard S 3/5 with Arcam A90 - the sound was
>muddy, with lack of highs, then it was changed to Roksan "Caspian(?)"
>and sound was quite opposite to what I've heard first - brilliant
>highs, clean, dynamic midrange, warm lows etc ... still both of these
>amps are for aprox. 1500$ which is too much for me right now. I was
>told to wait few days for NAD 352 which has to be best amp for 500$.
>Still I haven't heard it in the combination with S 3/5...

I'd pick the Adcom stuff over any of the NAD amps. Also I might look into
a small used tube amp. A decade ago I would have recommended the Dyna ST70
as a good match for those speakers, but a decade ago you could buy ST70s
for ten dollars at yard sales. Now they go for big money on Ebay.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."