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Originally Posted by usbyte
Just got my special 40 last Friday. Sounding really good. These are sweet sounding speakers. Smooth relaxed lush sound. Using it with a Hegel Rost. These speakers need more power.
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I am confident they sound very nice. There is a very clear behavior for break-in for Dyns, though, that needs to be understood. They sound good initially, but they may very well start to sound pretty bad at 100-150 hours, start to clean up again by 200-250 hours, and by 300 hours, bing! They will also of a sudden "be there". Its very important to stay on with them when they start to sound poorly mid-way through the break-in period, because once you get past 300 hours, you will be REALLY happy. I've read of several owners that sold them during the uncomfortable-sounding period of mid-break in, and came to regret it later. So patience is key...
Regarding power: actually, what they need is current, not power, as they have very large, 3" voice coils. High quality, mid-power tube amps can swing large amounts of current when required for transients. I drive my big Dyn Contour S3.4s with a 70 WPC C-J LP70S very effectively.
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