To answer your question about required power level meaningfully, you should also inform anyone familiar with your proposed combo about your tastes in music and especially the dimensions of your listening room.
Revel Studio speaker w/Music Reference RM-200 amp?
Thanks to all of you tube-o-philes who responded to my earlier post!!!
I think some of your suggestions were right on the money. However, in speaking to my wife, she, (very unreasonably to my way of thinking!), wants me to pay off the new bedroom furniture and recarpet the house before I spend any more money on my stereo. Therefore, instead of having up to $5K to spend on a tube amp, I only have $2K (which is what I think I can get for my Mark Levinson No. 23). Therefore, I have looked around and have revised (downward, unfortunately) my budget for this new amp. The amp I figure might work best is the Music Reference RM-200. It has the bare minimum power (100W/ch.), and unfortunately has bias to set, however, it appears that the tubes are relatively few so this should be fairly easy to do. In addition, the tubes are relatively cheap and reputedly last quite awhile.
Therefore, my new question is:
Have any of you Revel Studio owners tried to use the Music Reference RM-200 amp?
(My Mark Levinson No. 23 has 200W/ch. and I am not sure if the 100W/ch. RM-200 will be enough amp for these speakers.)
If so, did it have enough power to really get to realistic sound levels? (I like to listen loud sometimes).
How was the sound? (Was the soundstaging and imaging tight?)
How was the bass response? (Did it get deep and tight enough?)
Again, thanks for your input! (It is so nice having the Audiogon members to discuss this with. Whatever did we do before Audiogon?!)
I think some of your suggestions were right on the money. However, in speaking to my wife, she, (very unreasonably to my way of thinking!), wants me to pay off the new bedroom furniture and recarpet the house before I spend any more money on my stereo. Therefore, instead of having up to $5K to spend on a tube amp, I only have $2K (which is what I think I can get for my Mark Levinson No. 23). Therefore, I have looked around and have revised (downward, unfortunately) my budget for this new amp. The amp I figure might work best is the Music Reference RM-200. It has the bare minimum power (100W/ch.), and unfortunately has bias to set, however, it appears that the tubes are relatively few so this should be fairly easy to do. In addition, the tubes are relatively cheap and reputedly last quite awhile.
Therefore, my new question is:
Have any of you Revel Studio owners tried to use the Music Reference RM-200 amp?
(My Mark Levinson No. 23 has 200W/ch. and I am not sure if the 100W/ch. RM-200 will be enough amp for these speakers.)
If so, did it have enough power to really get to realistic sound levels? (I like to listen loud sometimes).
How was the sound? (Was the soundstaging and imaging tight?)
How was the bass response? (Did it get deep and tight enough?)
Again, thanks for your input! (It is so nice having the Audiogon members to discuss this with. Whatever did we do before Audiogon?!)
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