Hi Rob......
Didn't buy the Dynaco for my Sunny H2W10 speakers, just not enough juice. No way they will measure up to the Dodd grunt.
Looking back on it, never should have sold those Dodd monos. With that 120wpc of el34 goodness, best my Sunnys ever sounded in my place. Those amps were ballsy! At 92db and a fairly flat curve the Sunnys are easy to drive, but for some reason they need some power to really gel and come alive. At shows they were usually paired with very high quality SS beasts like Behold. I did try powerful SS and class D on them, but just not for me. I prefer tubes, and powerful tubes are pricey.
Been 12 years with the Sunnys....an eternity for me. Great great speaker IMO, but not the best for low level listening -- they need to be goosed a bit to come alive. Impressive once you play them like that. But my life has changed -- no more house, I'm in an apartment now, gotta keep it down a bit. Now I need a speaker that still performs at low SPL. Also want high efficiency for the wide amp universe it provides, and all the great low power tube amps you can buy very reasonably for say 800 to 1400 used.
I don't know what came over me, but I went a little overboard in the past few weeks and bought two pair of speakers that fit the bill: Klipsch Forte IV and Zu Dirty Weeekends Mk2. That's the reason for the Dynaco purchase. Years ago when still a somewhat young man
I owned Coincidents and Silverline speakers. Remember fondly the great music I got from my low power tubes : 300B, 845, el84, el34, etc. So I'm looking forward to getting back on that track for some really sweet low level late night magic.
The Dynaco was an impulse I probably should have ignored. I already have two very decent low-ish power amps I should have tried first, and then moved on if I needed to. Oh well.......I hadn't bought any gear in a long time, blame it on pent- up demand.
Should be fun. In addition to the ST-70 I have a Baldwin Organ Super amp rebuilt by Will Vincent (6l6 power tubes, 20wpc) , and an SET amp built by a CJ tech in his basement (6as7 power tube, about 10 wpc)
Later.....
John
PS: sorry for the thread hi-jack!