random upgrade questions

[baddog]

I have Giya G3 speakers. I have D400. Room size is approximately 23' long by 13.5' wide by 9' tall.

I have not tried running the G3's with a single D200, but I can state that for the times when I like to turn things up loud  it is handy to have the D400 as the volume can get up to -4. In normal use it is around the -33 to -20 mark depending on source material. DSD if you have it is usually recorded lower and thus needs a slightly higher volume setting.

But please note that I have an opening into another room at the back, it is not a sealed in room.

FWIW I do have an external set of bi wire speakers connecting the Devialet to the G3. Which of course will not make a difference in regards to volume.

I believe the G2s are more efficient than my G3s.

I have never heard a D250 so I cannot speak to that possibility.

And I should mention the G3s sound great with the D400.

As a matter of fact if you never go above -3 dB in a 400 then a 200 will be able to deliver the same. (To be taken with a grain of salt because SAM can change the picture).

I honestly think that the difference shall come more from the intrinsic qualities of the dual mono configuration rather than the doubling of power.

Jean-Marie

Thanks Jean-Marie - I have never fully understood the correlation of dB to volume capabilities of the Devialet ( in other words I don't know how far above 0 it can go and I suspect I will never find out as -4 is more than enough volume for me. ) 

Helpful to know that at -3 dB that a 200 would be as equally capable of pure volume as a 400. And as you noted, the reason I went for a 400 as opposed to the 200 was for those other "intrinsic" qualities.

As another aside I am using SAM at around 40% so I imagine that would have an impact on the power as well.