As I said, I only had mine on loan for a short time and paired with a pair of Tonian TL-D1s and using a Wavelength Proton to feed the amp -- What a wonderful sound and with dynamics that were impossibly amazing for 2 watts. Those Tonians were another one of those speakers I woefully regret selling, and I recently looked for another pair and it seems they are out of production.
That was such a simple system yet sounded so amazingly good. I'm hoping to get back to that level of sound (but obviously different) with my current setup which is very similar except for the addition of a better DAC, Aries mini streamer/server, and a Orca deluxe / dungeness Max stack, and balanced power.
Sometimes it takes a long time and far too much money to figure out that a basic, simple system can sound out-of-this-world sound. There's a lesson in there somewhere. :-)
Paul, your babies are also wonderful amps but I'm trying to live within a much smaller audio budget these days, and in that regard, the s.e.x. Just floated to the top.
-- Jim
Jim Rebman -- recovering audiophile
Equitech balanced power; uRendu, USB processor -> Musette DAC -> 5670 tube buffer -> Finale Audio F138 FFX -> Cain and Cain Abbys near-field).
s.e.x. 2.1 under construction. Want list: Stereomour II
All ICs homemade (speaker and power next)