I hooked up my pair of B&K M200 monoblocks to a friends pair of Stratus Golds and was very disappointed with the sound. The M200's seemed very enemic and the speakers sounded like they were playing through a blanket. I'm currently using the amps with Maggie 3.3R's and like how they sound, but they did NOT work with Stratus Golds. He's currently using an old Cambridge 100W amplifier until he decides what amplifier to buy, and it sounds quite a bit better than the M200's. A McCormack DNA-1 also made them sing. PS - I believe that the M200 is almost identical to a 4420M. PPS - I owned a Conrad-Johnson MV125 (125W tube) for a regrettably short period of time. The best sound I ever heard in a domestic setting came from that amp driving his pair of Stratus Gold (even better than my beloved 3.3R's).
