text: @philsons i want to share an interesting story. A few years ago, I owned 30.1s that I was using in my home office with a tube amp. They sounded quite good. I decided to sell them since I had upgraded to SHL5+ and didn’t want to keep too many speakers. The day the buyer came to audition them, we decided to move them to the main listening room and hook them up to the Luxman 590AXII (now sold). They sounded so frikinn’ good that I almost changed my mind. I wish I had paired them with the Luxman before or else I would have never sold them. They sounded like a completely different speaker with lots of air, bass, and increased resolution. The buyer told me he was planning negotiate a little but after hearing them, he paid my asking price and took them home.
  I also briefly auditioned the Hegel 390 in my system, although not with the 30.1s. I know that Alan Shaw demo’s the speakers with Hegel, but IMO, Luxman 590AXii was a match made in heaven. It really woke up the 30.1s and made beautiful music. I suspect 30.2 will be an even better match.