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SET on JBL Everests - Mouse breeding an elephant?

I have a set of DD67000s and I’ve been running them on a pair of bridged Mac 275 amps.  I’ve been quite happy with the results even though most advise a lot more juice.  Lately, I’ve been hearing interesting things about the Elekit TU 8600s and I’m curious how that would work on the Everests.  Most of my listening is to acoustic guitar, jazz ensembles, piano (classical and bill evans jazz), and intimate vocals at fairly low volume with the remainder being orchestral/symphonic, early rock, big band, Texas swing at higher volumes.  Room is 22 X 40 with vaulted ceiling.  I’m thinking of adding the SET for the smaller scale stuff and leaving the 275s as they are for the rest.  Thoughts?
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phusis
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The real treat it seems would be running the DD67000’s actively - have you considered that?

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Don’t know whether named amps have variable gain (or how they otherwise match here as a fixed value), but you could use the SET(‘s) for the HF/MF horns and the bridged 275’s for the 15” units? Or else I imagine a pair of stand-alone SET’s would do well up to moderate volumes.
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