The sheer physicality of the combination can be stunning. There is no question that the NSW & Orféos get more of a piano than an 002i/ESP gets from Abscissas, especially its low end. They will cause some listeners to feel that the less powerful amp and smaller speakers sound incomplete. ![]() Everything feels larger and more substantial through them. The NSW & Orféos combination is more confident and effortlessly full-range. That game belongs to the nearly four times less powerful and more suave BC 002i/EPS. That is not the game they were designed to play. The NSW doesn’t do anything special for the somewhat smaller, far less demanding JMR Abscissas. And no doubt thanks to the NSW’s seemingly unlimited power reserve (600 watts into their 4 ohms), there is a degree of overall ease not heard here since I had the 3-way JMR Concordes (which the new Orféos have driven from the product line). In combination, even with fewer than fifty hours on both, this is the best (clearest, weightiest) deep bass I’ve yet to hear coupled to a wonderfully fleshed out, saturated - not artificially warm - mid-range that gives new life to cellos and organs, strong reserves of dynamic energy. These new Orféos are what the NSW was born to drive. ![]() If you are one of those who crave the full and natural weight of an orchestra or jazz band.or of a bassoon.or of bass baritone Matthias Goerne, you will need large, full-range speakers like the new Orféo Jubilees and a powerful amp like the new 300 watt Blue Circle NSW to drive them. I’ll follow up when I consider break-in of the amp (and speakers) nearer to completion, if necessary. I felt it was time to say at least something. So take the following as a flawed first report on the amp. In filing this first, early report on the new NSW 300, as there is only one speaker in my house that is its natural mate, the new Jean Marie Reynaud Orféo Jubilees, I have no way yet of separating what this amp sounds like from what its mates sound like.
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