D200 not very good sounding at low volume

[rwjr44]

When reducing the max output power of course it will protect your speakers. The side effect is that for a given volume you will need less digital attentuation. They will say it makes no difference to the sound because they believe their digital volume control is perfect and totally transparent, like most here on this forum.  So the 2 things, speaker protection and less digital  attentuation do not contradict each other!

I'm lost in this thread so don't answer, if you have done this. Just set the max output power to some low volume and try it. Devialet's pronouncements aren't always correct. :-).