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is the Unico enough?

Hello everyone,

I'm just curiuos to know if the Unison Research Unico (80 w/ch) integrated has enough juice to properly drive the NHT 2.5i's. The room is fairly small (11.5 X 14 x 8). The source is a Rotel RCD971 with MSB link DAC III w/ half Nelson upgrade. The speaker's specs are 86db/w/m , 6 ohm, although apparently they are a pretty stable load.

If the Unico isn't powerful enough, can anyone recommend a good match to this setup?

I find that the NHT's along with the given source can sound fairly sterile with the wrong pream and amplification. I am looking for something that will give me depth and overall dimensionality, control , body, musicality and sheer drivability. The cost of the Unico is as high as I can go (even that's pushing it).

thanks
loose

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loose OP
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Anyone else???
loose OP
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Thanks for your posting regarding the Rotel, however, I'm searching for components that have a little more sophistication than that product line. You are correct in that my speakers would do well with higher power, however in their case, they are more reliant on current reserves. I have already driven them with a Bryston 4bst which I was going to use along with a HQ preamp, but I decided to go with a higher quality integrated instead (I'm trying to get away from separates b/c there are sooo many excellent integrateds out there)

Never have been and never will be a fan of Rotel (even though I have owned some of their products and actually currently use a Rotel cd player as a transport).

thanks for the replies thus far.

Steve
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