Well now....

I must thank everyone for their responses here. Learned quite a bit. I will either go with 2 M200's to start off with or go with a 950/7100 combo package. The HT/Listening room is rather small at 13.5' Wide and 14.5' deep. So I think that even if I 'settle' for 100 wpc, I won't be disappointed.

Thanks to all,

Bob 045

Oh yes, that should be plenty. Another thing with the power. Pretty much all of us know doubling the power sent will give 3 more db, but we forget that going 3 db down will be half the power. So if you have 10 db of headroom before you max out your amp (say it's a 200 watt M200), that's only 20 watts. Just 3 db down would be 100 watts.

JT Clark,

I had to reread your post there, but I got it, I think. With a level of 20 watts ( using your figures ) 10db headroom= 20watts X ( 10^10db) = 20 watts * 10=200 watts.

With a 100 watt amp one gets 20 watts X (10 ^ 7 db)=20 X 5.11 = 100 watts ( Approximately ).

Sorry, I think I kind of jumped around in my explanation. Good to see you still got it.