I'll be the contrarian here. I drove the 2.3s with a 120 watt Electrocompaniet solid state amp and traded up a month later to an 80 watt Air Tight ATM2 tube amp. Both sounded very good, but different. I preferred the ATM2 hands down -lived with it for 3 years.
Got plenty of volume out of the 2.3s in a 5000 c.f. room with a mere 80 watts. I must qualify that my listening tastes are 80% "classic" jazz from the 50's and 60's at volumes seldom exceeding 90 dB.
Can't comment on reproduction of current pop/rock recordings, but the Steely Dan and Little Feat tunes sounded great too. Good luck!
Got plenty of volume out of the 2.3s in a 5000 c.f. room with a mere 80 watts. I must qualify that my listening tastes are 80% "classic" jazz from the 50's and 60's at volumes seldom exceeding 90 dB.
Can't comment on reproduction of current pop/rock recordings, but the Steely Dan and Little Feat tunes sounded great too. Good luck!