Dear @gavman : First I'm not telling that make a change of your Boulder for the 20.6, a misunderstood for your part. Dry sound?, well this depends of the whole syatem audio and not only the amp and I can tell you that at least the 20.6 is everything but dry.
In the other side The IMD in your speakers exist but at low level due that the crossing is at 230hz and due to the excellent driver Focal uses on it. I think you are using the subs only as reinforcement on the low bass. Your speakers goes down to 22hz ( 3 +-db ). My speakers goes down 16hz and I use subs because the woofers has a higher cross frequency than yours.
Even that you said NO I can tell you that I know for sure what I'm talking about and that I know very well the signature of Boulder amps and I can tell you that I can live with its amps .
R.

