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Yeah, the Cambridge sounded really good, and very affordable. If anything falls through with the arcam i've found, I may go ahead and reconsider and look for a cambridge a500 or a3i, as they seem very decently priced.

Duff, thanks for the referral!

The M22TiSe work nicely with the A500. I've demoed and sold that combination alot. 'Lively' sounding. Try it with some Kimber 4PR speaker and some very heavy stands. Amazing transparency.

Marc,

You tried the M80's with the A500. Just curious if its got enough juice to drive the M80's. I know its only rated at 40WPC, but it seems to be a decently priced quality amp and am just curious if its something I should consider for the 80's.

Regards...Amer

Amer, the specs for the Cambridge A500 are 65 watts rms @ 8ohms, and 85 watts rms @ 6 ohms, with speaker impedance rated at 6 - 16 ohms. When purchasing my gear from Audioshop, the staff (including Marc) said the A500 should have no problem driving the M80's ("an easy 4 ohm load"). However, I decided to play it safe and go with the M60's, along with the fact that the M80's may have been a bit of overkill for the size of my listening room. I've since added a Cambridge P500 power amp, and Dahlquist sub to my system...sounds real sweet!

Cheers.

Nice setup you have there Joe. The P500 is another option I am considering at the moment as well. I don't really need and integrated amp like the A500, as I can just use the preouts of my Onkyo 787 into the P500 to drive the M80's.

I am just curious if the P500 will drive the M80's. I'm not looking for mind blowing loudness, just better quality amplification at moderate levels than what I'm getting from my receiver. The P500 seems to be a reasonably priced, quality product.

I think I'll ask Marc if he has tried this setup in his shop and what he thought of it.

Thanks.

Looks like I am coming down to two choices.

1) Keep the 787 and get a P500 to drive the M80's.
2) Ditch the 787 and get the new Marantz 7300 receiver.

Both options will probally cost me the same amount of coin ($500, as I have a buyer for the 787). Just wondering what will give me best bang for the buck when listening to 2 channel music.

I just bought the Marartz7300ose last week and then I found out there were complaints (hometheaterforum.com) about a tweeter hiss at very low volumes with the analog cable hookup and with no music with the digital cable. I heard the hiss after receiving the receiver only with certain CD/DVD's. It went away in a few days and then my Kimber 4VS arrived and what a beautiful receiver. Cables do make a difference!!

Might the Cambridge Audio A300 work with a pair of M22ti bookshelves?

I've also been considering a Marantz PM7000 Integrated Amplifier.

Actually, I just put out a bid for a Dynaco SCA-80 integrated amp.

(http://home.indy.net/~gregdunn/dynaco/components/SCA80/index.html)

Do you think a pair of M22ti's will work well with this amp?

I guess the M22's will sound fine with the Dynaco, but why choose this antique transistor amp??? The solidstate technology was still very immature in that era. You have nothing in them that are "better" than today's el cheapo amps/receivers. Personally, if I were to go back to '60s-early '70s, I would choose a quality tube amp. They may be more expensive, but they have much more "fun factor" inside...

Cheers!