Yamamoto Sound Craft thread, A / HA / CA / YDA

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Chill, you are all over the place @MacDLaw . Let’s step back and discuss good match ups. Many of the Lowther cabinet and transducer combinations will work w/ as little as 1 watt. Yes the Klipsch Heritage line will work too and so will Altec Lansing horn designs Western Electric, Line Magnetic, Lii song and Lii Audio. Decware offers a variety of both open baffle and cabinet design speakers built to take advantage of low power amplifiers, less than 10 wpc.

If you have full access to Yamamoto straight out of Japan, they have various speakers designed to work w/ the amplifiers. Both horn and open baffle pieces which i personally appreciate. Welcome to Yamamoto Sound Craft Homepage

If you want to play the low power game I highly suggest you take time to go read everything at this sight, it will open your eyes to the limitations very low wattage has to deal with. http://glowinthedarkaudio.com/

After you are done reading and absorbing this info move over to the First Watt page and read as many of his articles as possible. https://www.firstwatt.com/

Last go over to Nelson’s DIY page and absorb some material there. https://www.passdiy.com/

Then feel free to go ahead and spend all sorts of money. This is a GREAT niche within the hobby

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FYSA, Lowther especially w/ their new super tweeters will scratch this itch. If you have the $$$$ Voxative will do the same and then some but cost 4x more.

The Klipsch Heritage line, the used older models will also perform as you expect for allot less money than any similar designs, for some reason though everyone has decided to charge super high-end pricing for these style of speakers coming out new nowadays. :man_shrugging:

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Yeah, Ive been like this since I left my ADHD medication, its gotten weird to arrange my thoughts, thanks for taking me step by step.

Thats great to hear! Ill be using the HA-03 with floorstanders then, ill be looking the offerings from those brands, but you already know klipsch has a very special place in my heart, so ill definitely begin there.

Im almost sure Ill start with the Heresy 4 as my first unless I can get a better price on another model, Ive been wanting these forever and im quite excited to pair with tube amps.

Then again, I can still get the Monitor Audio Gold that I want, they’ll sound amazing with the exogal.

I cannot afford of import those, but they do look godlike, the shipping and import is way worse than for an amplifier

Thanks for the resource, thats the kind of info I needed.

Thanks for all the resources Im 100% nerding it out, this is right up my alley.

All of these look next level! for now im not up to these level

What im up to is fulfilling my dream of finally getting the klipschs Ive been wanting for even since I heard the rp500m for the first time I fell in love.

Thanks a lot nick and everyone, ill also check out usam to compare prices between these and the ones m0n recommended, the omegas look like a dope cheaper version of the Lowthers, aesthethically.

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Since you have subwoofers already, stand mount speakers are a good option too if you can’t find a pair of Heresy at a good price.

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Im a bit confused but I think I got it, from the page you sent the first few seem like regular bookshelves but after that, if im correct theyre like if bookshelves were very tall so that they can stand on their own (or with a small platform) as if they had a full mount, while keeping maybe 2 or 3 way speakers at most, so I get to have more bass customization with the subs’ LPF and volume.

I absolutely love the idea - the lii song and Omegas look insanely good.

Thanks again for the recommendations! Since I still have to pay for amps and tubes, the klipschs will have to wait.

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Sorry, My bad. Bookshelf / Desktop / Standmount are all interchangeable words in my lexicon for anything that is not a full sized tower speaker. I simply wanted to let you know that there are high sensitivity speakers built and designed to play with very low power, Under 10 WPC amplifiers that are somewhat “affordable” or at the very least below $5000 price point. (Lii and Decware have some). Also be aware Lii Song and Lii Audio are 2 DIFFERENT companies. There was infighting amongst the partners a while ago and now 2 separate companies that DO NOT interchange with each other. I can’t speak to either but I know some of their products do make it into the USA and Decware designed at least one of their tower designs.

Good luck, have fun researching. I would sell you my updated Heresy 1.5’s if you were not all the way in Mexico. I have the original boxes still but I’m not sure if getting them all the way to Mexico is possible???

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I only knew about decware for the ZEN TRIODE, I always wanted one until I read some lackluster reviews lol. but im sure theyre great regardless, they also have a headphone amp for audeze that ive always wanted to try. God knows about their speakers but ive added them to the check it out list.

Thanks for the lii song clarification.

I dont know which model is the 1.5 but coming from you id certainly get it, problem is, I really need to buy the amplifiers and tubes first, now that I know a few dozen options for Higher Sens Speakers that are worth it thanks to all you guys replies, the fist step is to actually get the Amps.

I have and address in el Paso Texas! no need to ship to mexico anymore, so im sure ill be taking all kind of offers from you in the future, for things you dont need anymore of course.

I know I could get the speakers first but im sticking to my current plan.

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Happy hunting in all your audio adventures. Any lackluster reviews about the Decware SET amplification are from users who don’t know HOW to use just a few watts. For 20 yrs Decware serviced a small and happy community. Once the dirty uneducated masses learned about the equipment they fell face first into the hardest part of the hobby thinking 2-3 watts will work with normal equipment. It doesn’t, don’t blame the gear if you don’t understand the game and the math behind it.

I won’t speak to their push pull designs since I’ve only used their SET and OTL models. This is the big reason I mentioned you should read up first. Anything less than 20 watts is really in niche territory. Anything under 10 watts is extreme niche and seriously, people playing with 1-6 watts need to know what they are doing because the limitations are the greatest…this is the niche of niche territory.

Happy and healthy new year good buddy. :+1:

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With all the parties and new year going on I haven’t had time to read those articles, but I certainly will, knowledge is half the battle when building a hi fi system.

Happy New Year everyone!

Im replying here because im curious about a brand that hasn’t been mentioned on this thread, Ive been looking at their models and drooling at some of them, and then I found a store here in my city that deals Fyne Audio; Its quite expensive but reminds me a bit of Fritz visually, seems like it could work on a very well though out low wattage system.

Do any of you have a take on Fyne audio of maybe I should stick with some of the other recs, it is quite an expensive brand but I like that I can see them physically (connected terribly wherever with random ass systems surrounded by gear, no listening room).

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Anything from Fyne audio is absolutely a stunning purchase. I have enjoyed many of their various models at the audio shows over the years and i always walk into their room. :pinched_fingers:

If they are local thats a good choice to look into. Not necessarily “treble head” builds but absolutely worthwhile and worthy on the top end.

Just be cautious, if you are going to try and play w/ less than 20 watts per channel you most likely want 8-12 ohm speakers 93-104 db sensitive. This is NOT an absolute, smaller desktop / monitors / standmounts NOT being pushed to reproduce much low end can be powered w/ less wattage and enjoyed.

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OFF TOPIC ALERT im sorry

Yeah, I noticed 2 things, even though they had that “shape” like the ones that could be driven with low potency their numbers are more built for stronger amplifiers, but still its great to get to know worthwhile brands and even more so with you informing me an approximate power requirement.

Getting into 2ch I cant have only low potency tube amps, theres way too many speakers I want to try that are low sensitivity.

Also, as much as I love my powerdac and im sure it can give great results with things like this its not like its going to be my only potent poweramp forever, thankfully im still young and theres a long road ahead for me (just like there is for you)

Variety is my absolute goal, when I said treble-head that was because I only own one pair of speakers which have quite soft treble, I need only one pair that satisfies my treble needs and the rest can be whichever signature as long as they bring something different to the table.

Sadly this shop sucks ass, they have a LOT of cool brands, seems like an audio dealers bodega. But its in a mall, medium to large room that doesnt let the gear be acoustically accurate.

rant alert :enraged_face: And the employees are complete assholes, I didnt even think it was possible to be this rude at customer service. Theres 2 of them, 1 does absolutely nothing and the other has a permanent annoyed face, when you talk to him his tone is extremely dismissive “what do you want from me? get out of my sight” Some speakers are already setup ready to test but you have to beg TO LET THEM TEST THE GEAR YOU ARE TRYING TO BUY.

If you beg hard enough they will connect maybe one or two setups that you want to hear, but with most of the speakers they’ll straight up “no, that ones not up for testing” when theyre clearly out of the box demo units already.

:skull: rant end

even with all that BS I got to try so many cool speakers, KLH, Triangle, Elac, Klipsch, Dali… Fyne Audio Really stood out, I could only afford the cheapest Fyne Pair If I wanted to and it was still fire, sorry for all the off topic, im very very new to 2ch and I just get really excited talking by my experiences with all these new toys.

As a saving grace if I wanted to test the Fynes properly they would take it to my home setup to try to close the deal there (that was only offered to me after I pretended I had a lot of money and wasnt interested in lower end models).

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All this conversation in the Yamamoto thread helped energize me enough to swap around some gear and start off the New Year w/ a 45DHT Yamamoto A08-S placed in the rack pushing my newly acquired Voxative Zeth speakers. I’ve read about an even newer version of this amplifier available in Japan, the A08-SS A-08SS-E

I’m well stocked w/ tubes for this particular amplifier so if ever the chance to grab the newest version comes along someday…:smiling_face_with_horns:

With appropriate speakers handy these diminutive power output amplifiers are a joy to listen to.

May 2026 not continue on as the dumpster fire that 2025 has been. :enraged_face: Happy New Year folks.

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Listening to our music, listening to our gear. It’s a good coping mechanism and a lot cheaper than other vices. :)

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It takes hella lot of energy setting up this listening spaces properly, and its so rewarding when its finally done.

My goal Is to have a space similar to the one you picture (different gear, same idea) by 2027, since business is moving slow, but slow and steady wins the race and im very very patient.

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