Greetings!

I've have two of the 200s and I'm using them to power my fronts with my 750 powering the rears and center. I have Sonus Faber (Fronts - Concertos, Rears - COncertinos) speakers all the way around and they do better with more power. The fronts now really sound very full with this arrangement.

In listening to music, I've heard the greatest difference over the 750 and for HT, the rears suddenly came to life now that the 750 has fewer speakers to drive.

I have not heard any hiss or hum. Everything in my closet is driven from a dedicated 20 amp curcuit with power conditioning in front of the components.

The 200s are configured to turn on when sensing music until I can get to Radio Shack and get a couple of cables to trigger them. My Anthem AVM 20 has 2 low voltage triggers one turns on the 750 and the other will turn on the 200s in a daisy chain configuration. While in the music on mode, when you turn everything off, you do hear this low level rumble as the 200s power down. Not sure if this will go away when I change the triggers.

joeboy:

I am running an identical setup, except through NHT VT-2/2a, HDP-2 dipoles and super zero rears. I too was suprised at the improvement over the 750 (which I didn't think was too shabby).

The M200's are very quiet, and the stack of two runs very cool.

Question for you: Does your 750 hum slightly (through the speakers)? Mine does, and I was suprised at the total lack of hum from the M200's.

Well I just replaced my Marantz MA500's on my mains with a pair of 200's.

First the voicing. The 200's seem a tad bit brighter than the MA 500's. However the Marantz's are well broken in and the M200's are not.

Overall the 200's play much louder (as they should) but also have much better bass extension and slightly better treble extension. Where the Marantz's best the 200's is in the midrange clarity. The 200's seem a bit grainy here.

Take this with a grain of salt as the 200's are not broken in and may change a little or a lot.

Also there is no hum and the hiss is the same as my Marantz amps, i.e. I can hear a hiss if I put my ear right up to the speaker. The speakers are Polk SDA-1C's.

[This message has been edited by morphsci (edited January 27, 2003).]