B&K ST-202 or Forte 1A?

Unsound, i did not even notice that in the original post. Thanks for pointing that out to both of us. Neither amp would be real happy with that type of a load in my opinion. Not only does the B&K not have enough power supply, it is seriously lacking heatsink for that type of operation. The Forte' would deal with it a little easier, but i don't think that it would have enough juice to get the job done and do it cleanly. Sean
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Are you both saying that a speaker that dips down to 2 ohms the B&K will not beable to handle cleanly?

In stock form I think you would be asking a lot from these designs. The Forte 4A which was a latter version of the 1a might be able to pull this off (most people seem to prefer it's more open extended sound as well). The Forte is only 50 watts but your speakers are pretty efficient. It will depend on your room and desired volume. Forte also made 75 watt monos that were like the 4A. If I'm not mistaken the 4A could be had with balanced inputs but the monos (7's?) were only availibe with RCA's.

P.S. the B&K M200 monos @ 200 watts per channel should be able to do handle the load.

What an amp will "do" and how it operates optimally can be very different things. The ST-202 will "do" 2 ohm loads. In doing that, it will run QUITE hot, sound more smeared and less detailed, etc...

As to Unsound's suggestion, the M-200's are capable of appr 160 amps of output peak to peak. It will do 2 ohm loads no problem and maintain a similar "house sound" if you want to stick with B&K. Sean
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