Amp for Revel Ultima Studio 2s

 Would like to see some responses to this also...

I'm using McIntosh 601's and a c47 driving my Salon 2's. My listening room is somewhat on the small size, but fairly well treated. For me, the room treatment was the key to a really good sound stage, deep and wide. The speakers pretty much disappear. The sound is on the warm side. That said, all of the detail is present, but the warmth may take away some of the perceived detail in the upper mid range. It's just the McIntosh sound, but I have always preferred it. I will say, you can run the Salons for long periods of time and the amps stay relatively cool. I had my last McIntosh amp (mc2500) for 30 years and never had to have serviced. All of the above mentioned amps are really good. Just different sound characteristics.

I don’t really find the Studio2 to be nearly as hard a drive as the Salon2 which is a few dB less efficient and has a rather brutal impedance curve. That said, the Studios do respond to good clean power, but can be driven successfully with any high quality amp that supplies decent current. I think I had heard of a pair being driven by a Pass xa30 that the owner was more than happy with the volume levels in a normally sized room. I think most any product from Pass would work well as would the aforementioned Levinson products particularly the 532h amp or 535 integrated. Not too familiar with the Simaudio offerings but have heard good things about them and their top of the line stuff is very nice but quite expensive of course.