I'm glad you got to hear AR9's way back when. I also heard Klipschorns many years ago and they did sound very good. It is a different kind of quality. I just read about and heard a discussion about their origin and Mr Klipsch. They began shortly after WWII and his story is quite entertaining. He even had something to say about early AR's, citing bullshit which became a bit of his mantra. He was quite a character.
Anyway, 2 ohm would make me nervous but there are many here far more qualified than myself to answer that. There are builders and designers here. I am just an avid listener, who is still not deaf after nearly 73 years of listening to rather loud music...........within reason.
@ghdprentice may be onto something. I know diddly about streaming and I don't know your primary source. I don't stream and I possibly never will. It is as important to me as having an HT system..........not at all. I'm just an old stereo geek. Check his sytem/systems out. He knows a thing or two as do a great number of the experts here. They have likely seen and heard it all.