A bit of an update on my Swan saga, I sold the speakers to fund a 208E Sigma build but very much missed their sound and room friendly looks, the 208's sounded great on the right tracks but could get a bit ragged in places and were a bit on the large side for my room. Also due to the absurd price of Birch Ply in the UK I had to use softwood instead and the compromise bugged me from the start. The guy who bought the Swans builds his own amps/DACs etc under 'Super Natural Audio' and took them to NWAS last year to demo some of his gear, now having developed his own speakers he offered me the Swans back which I jumped at. In the end we made a deal on the speakers plus a 2.3w SET amp, which despite the low power drives the 90dB/w Fostex with plenty of oomph! The final piece of the puzzle was finding some FE108 Sol drivers on ebay, although extremely enjoyable the orignal 108E sigmas were lacking some sparkle at at the top and the Sol's fill in the gap perfectly. The system is now 'finished' and amazes me every time I turn it on, strong output from 60hz to 20k+ from 2 x 3" cones and 2w of tube power seems like magic!
