Amp for Revel Ultima Salon 2

Here is an earlier thread on amps for Revel Salon 2s:

www.forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1344011616&openfrom&1&4#1

They do like watts, up to a point: I wouldn't personally want to drive them with less than 200 watts in a room of more than 2500 square feet. But they like high current and speed even more. They will sound much better with a 250 watt fast amp that can accurately reproduce microdynamics than they will with a 500 watt slowpoke that can only play loud. So you need to look at more than just the wattage number.

I think Jeff Rowland Design Group still uses the Ultima in their listening room.

I would add to that list PASS XA200.5 or X600.5, Bryston 28SST2, ARC DS450M.

The choice depends on the rest of the system, budget, size of the room,...

Mike

ASR Emitter 2 Exclusive.
I Use them myself on the Salon 2, and have never heard an amp providing such power,control and crazy resolution to a speaker.
In my opinion, this is maybe the best amp out there!
I had the most expensive toys from McIntosh, Krell, Jeff, Rowland and many other brands before, but none were even close to the ASR, and very many agree with me here;)
The only amps ive heard that had this level of power, (almost),and most definately the resolution, were Nagra monoblocs, tubebased...but in the end, I would choose ASR over Nagra

I would just add, that even if it has a moderate watt of 280 on the ASR 2 exc, it has an insane amount of current available, which makes it able to drive 1ohm speakers and even below that with 100% control...very very few amps can do this. ASR is also extremely fast, extremely detailed, which on the Salon 2 will make your jaw drop several inches.
But if you were to buy one of the three first you named, Mark Levinson 532 should definetaly be No.1