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My brother-in-law bought F206's (maybe 5 years ago). We auditioned and bought them from a local dealer that drove them with a NAD integrated amp. The room was like a giant pillow, rugs, curtains, suspended ceiling, too dead for my tastes. The NAD did not do these speaker justice, it got harsh when turned up.
At home, he had a pair of Outlaw M2200 class-G monoblocks. I liked these amps at modest volume but not when turned up to where the music was in the mid 80s. I bought over a Parasound A21 and level matched and the A21 had no issues at the same volume levels with the tracks we played. He ended up buying an A21.
Now that we are both immunized, I am going to setup a listening session with the MiniDSP to compare the AHB2 to the A21 driving these speakers. He likes it loud and the F208s sound really good in is modest room, 13x15x8.
His system is using an Oppo UDP-105 as the preamp which is a nice solution and has a ML Grotti servo sub which was fairly easy to blend with the F208s without bass management.
Now that I think of it, I may have to bring 2 AHB2s
- Rich
Let me know if you want to borrow the ABX box... it really is enlightening. Joe, Leonard, Wayne and Dennis all have superb ears, exceedingly better than mine, and none of us could consistently identify any differences in the following amps over several days of testing back in 2015. When we listened and knew what we were listening to, we made notes on what differences we thought we heard, but when we used the box and didn't know the two amps we were switching between, no one could match up their same comments with any consistency... bottom line, we could not prove anyone could really hear any differences.
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