Dynamics at lower volumes?

1) Horns
2) Revel Ultima Salon 2's

Harbeth and Naim

Elizabeth. You are gain matching. Try using the passive after the preamp instead of before.

As with certain tube designs, some Class A designs sound particularly good at lower level. I think it would maybe follow that more efficient speakers are probably better at low levels than greatly inefficient speakers, as they need less juice to open up, but I'll defer to the more technically inclined audiogoners to confirm or disconfirm that.