01-05-2014, 08:58 PM
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Merry Christmas to all
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: North Central Florida
Posts: 53,224
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Paul.......I think that listening to the XA160.5 driving the Q5's with music you enjoy and are intimately familiar with will give you a clearer vision of what the XA200.5 can muster on the same speakers. We can all offer opinions until the cows come home, but hearing is believing. The same difficult impedance curve and phase angles will be present and the XA160.5 is not that far off of the output power capabilities of the XA200.5. I think an extended audition of that setup will fill in a lot of blanks for you.
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Dan
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